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...When Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Island colony mysteriously disappeared some time between 1587 and 1590, the message CROATOAN was found carved on a tree. The"lost colony," some experts believe, joined the Croatan Indians. Among them: Virginia Dare...
...English, as suggested in this very English verse by Sir Walter Raleigh, late professor of English literature at Oxford, live very close to their neighbors, and thus tend to have a depressingly low view of their character, morals and appearance. Angus Wilson, England's cleverest postwar storyteller, succeeds like a gifted gossip in holding the ear of an audience which may deplore the scandalmonger but is entranced by his narrative...
...WILY's three hard-driving Negro disk jockeys, two will be replaced by white men, one will remain: Sir Walter Raleigh, whose haughty, sardonic British accent seems to make hipsters flip. Says Raleigh, as he lays on such "crazy wax" as O Bop She Bop and Rockin' Pneumonia: "Well, chaps, that's the way the mop flops. Lads and deicers, we're feeling rather geometric this afternoon, yes, indeedy, we have happy sounds coming up; a jolly good show, what...
...conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve...
...over her China with the air of a lady dispensing oolong from a rare porcelain tea service. In her 43rd book, she subdues the storm over Asia to the dimensions of one of her teacups. The conflict between Communist China and the West is symbolized by the MacLeods of Raleigh, Vt. Gerald MacLeod, although not a Communist, lives in Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor (1909-12) and took a Chinese...