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Vita Sackville-West, whose memoirs make up about half the book, grew up in an Elizabethan manor house larger, she liked to point out, than most palaces; if she'd been a man, she would have inherited it along with one of England's oldest titles. Instead, she became a writer and served as the model for Virginia Woolf's amazing Orlando, who danced his way through history and changed sex with the centuries. Harold Nicolson, who married Vita, was an equally blue-blooded dilettante with dozens of books to his credit. Together, they shared an aversion to the middle...
...Thirteen, and these days, it takes more than mushy bananas, nausea, and Jewish in-laws to get a laugh. Before they put this album out, along with the new collection of their older works, Reiner, Brooks and their 2000 year old man should have remembered the oldest and most famous show biz saying, one even better known than "There's a sucker born every minute...
When the city of New York issued its visitors' map of points of interest in the early 1960s, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was nowhere to be found. Never mind that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt...
...thought I was the world's greatest expert on pay TV," he says, "but since there was only one pay-TV station -mine-my services were not exactly in demand. I went from being the youngest manager of a TV station in the U.S. to being the oldest radio cub reporter...
During World War II, Walsh served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, navigating combat and escort aircraft carriers. A colleague, George W. Mackey, Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, said yesterday that "Walsh was proud to have been the oldest Harvard professor still in active service during...