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Last Week. If alive, the Lindbergh child became 22 months old last week. Col. Lindbergh made a two-day journey from his lonely estate. He was seen at Milford and Bridgeport, Conn. The "Jafsie" notes disappeared from the newspapers. The Norfolk triumvirate--Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock, John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. retired--continued their activity. Mr. Curtis effected his weekly disappearance in a naval plane; the Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they...
...retiring in 1996, Rimington wrote Open Secret, a tell-little autobiography that gave her the confidence to try her hand at fiction. "I'm an addicted reader of John le Carré," she says, "so I figured, Why not?" She holed up for long stretches at her beach home in Norfolk, East Anglia, where much of At Risk is set, and leaned heavily on the assistance of novelist Luke Jennings. "I'm quite good at thinking up plots and characters, but I needed help with pacing," she explains...
...Crimson will next face Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday in a match...
Hakim, 73, had never written for children before 1986, when she decided to try her hand at textbooks. Inspired by a University of Minnesota study that claimed kids retained 40% more information from passages written by journalists than by academics, Hakim, a former editor at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and a onetime teacher, began working on A History of US. The series was everything that conventional textbooks were not. Her books were not written by a committee, are structured around characters and stories rather than facts and dates and were kid-approved before publication. Hakim paid local children to edit...
...hunting looming in England and Wales she is seeing a growing number of visitors from across the channel. So far this season (which runs from mid-October to March) 70 British hunters have stayed at the abbey, more than ever before. Abbey regular Robin Bramley from Norfolk says: "It's wonderful to take a short trip abroad to a country where there are over 400 hunts...