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Roundheads & Rome. The ticking began almost at birth. The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour...
It was not all spent with lepers, but in one way or another, most of it has been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste...
Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings...
Next week, Lord Lindsay's old routine ends. Now 70, he retires from Balliol, though not from teaching. He is moving bis books and few possessions to a rambling mansion three miles beyond the pottery town of Stoke-on-Trent. There, a new state-aided university has been founded...
In St. Louis last week the rambling Municipal Auditorium bustled with doctors who do a good deal of worrying and considerable arguing about their professional status. Supporting their claim to cover every branch of medicine and surgery, the 2,000 visitors at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association...