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Elizabeth did not suffer fools of the pretentious kind gladly, if at all; but it was not only 'interesting people' in whom she was interested. Nice bores, and the oddest and most unlikely people, received her sympathetic and undivided attention. Nevertheless, in Oxford she did begin to meet 'interesting people' in large numbers for the first time. And the Oxford generation with which her arrival coincided was by any standards an extraordinary one. Through David Cecil, she met Maurice Bowra, who, then in his mid-twenties-he was a year older than Elizabeth-was fellow...
Like the first King Kong, produced 43 years ago, the new version plunges one quickly into the heart of that special critical darkness indigenous to the movies. On the face of it, nothing could be more preposterous than this story of the love affair between the oddest couple in popular culture: a blonde whose beauty is matched only by her dimness of mind (at least in the original) and an ape who is 40 ft. tall, fierce of mien and manner, yet at heart just a big adolescent, bumbling spectacularly through the throes of his first-often literally crushing-crush...
...oddest things show up in the Miscellany notice box. This week, for example, it was disheartening to discover a message from the Boston Museum of Science informing the general public that Charlie, the Museum's seven-year-old alligator is about to return to the Okeefenokee (sic) Wildlife Refuge in Georgia; although don't get too disappointed, because Charlie is being replaced by another baby North American alligator named Herman. Veh. This month, you can go see "The Revolution" in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., or "Victorian Boston" in the Castle on Arlington St. near...
...will be glad to learn that your Sparroy [Virginia herself] feels herself a recovered bird. I think the blood has really been getting into my brain at last. Its [sic] the oddest feeling, as though a dead part of me were coming to life...
...King George VI's coronation, nine peers of the realm gathered last week in a paneled committee room of the House of Lords. Ranged around a horseshoe table, the lords listened intently as, one by one, bewigged barristers rose to argue the fine points of one of the oddest cases in British legal history-the sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 54, a prosperous London...