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From the very moment that Sir Robert Walpole, George II's First Lord of the Treasury, moved into it in 1735, it began to be the center of British power. Queen Caroline would breakfast there, and then return to the palace to persuade her weaker husband to do just...
VICTORY: THE LIFE OF LORD NELSON (393 pp.)-Oliver Warner-Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50).
The other roles are well handled, and I should like to mention at least Dee Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who...
Distressed by the rioting he had caused, Premier Bandaranaike appealed to Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, a tough-minded financier, who took firm command of the situation. Martial law and a rigorous curfew confined the hooliganism to daylight hours. Ships in Colombo Harbor, hastily chartered, were loaded last week with...
For Britons, Covent Garden shimmers with memories of empire and artistry in opera's most florid era, when Victoria's passion for singers helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John...