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...Beryl's many, had helped Markham make up much of the education she had missed. Though her good friend, the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, strongly influenced her writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered statements he made after their breakup, most of her book was written before they met. She was her own writer, her own woman and a force of nature still remembered with awe in East Africa. "I don't think Beryl ever thought...
...Eastern Europe, official gestures often have hidden meanings. The statue just erected in Budapest honoring Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was no exception. Wallenberg, who is credited with saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews destined for Nazi concentration camps, disappeared shortly after being taken into Soviet custody when Hungary was liberated by the Allies in 1945. He is believed to have died while in a Soviet prison...
...Raoul F. Moore, the property manager ofCharles Square Limited Partnership, says thatattracting customers to a new location presents aninevitable challenge with any new retail center."There's always a start-up period," he says...
...Regents Board also recently rejected honoring Raoul Wallenberg because he could not attend commencement. Wallenberg smuggled Hungarian Jews to safety during World War II and is believed by many to be dead...
...letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book ever printed in English, Raoul Le Fevre's The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. In the largest such sale ever, Perot, 55, paid $15 million to obtain the books from the private Pforzheimer collection in New York City, and the university is planning a fund-raising drive to repay him. The collection "fascinates...