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...guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour of Britain, Canada and the U.S., returned to down 25 more Germans in twelve days, five of them in a flamboyant...
Slaves could marry, but the union was not legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...
...aged King in exile. This play lacks the searing impact of Oedipus Rex, but exhibits instead a glowing mellowness and profound restraint. It is the wisdom of old age--the old age of both the King and the dramatist. They both are telling us that man is a prey to Fate, which he cannot control but should learn to accept...
...painters to be seen in Cambridge. They are one disturbing element in a world otherwise ruled by gaiety and love. A small cat lurks in the background where young lovers sleep, peering like douanier Rousseau's tiger, an ominous and imposing reality. In another instance a group of cats prey like vultures around the form of a young girl who is sleeping amidst a bacchanalian dance in the forest. Mr. Berger saves his naive world by this grace. If one lives in a dream world there are also nightmares...
...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...