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Milwaukee-born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...
Carmel, a little world of its own on California's Monterey Peninsula where artists, the indolent wealthy and year-round vacationers rub elbows, is well used to strange characters. But it discovered a new kind in 60-year-old Norman Duxbury, caretaker of the city's outdoor Forest Theater. Like all the other city employees, Duxbury signed the state's new non-Communist oath. Then, after the city clerk looked up his voting record, Duxbury admitted that he had been a Communist all along...
...Edward FitzGerald got his first look at a copy of a 400-year-old manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library. He began translating the quatrains of the forgotten Persian astronomer-poet, Omar Khayyám. In a short time, FitzGerald's translations swept into vogue, and the Rubáiyát's call to "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou" became a literary contagion...
...many that it began to seem impossible that Omar could have written them all. Some quatrains were also attributed to other poets, and scholars began to conclude that Omar was just a convenient name on which to pin any wine-colored quatrains that turned up. As for the Rubáiy5ádt, scholars also had doubts: Was Omar a really good poet, or had FitzGerald merely made him seem...
...manuscript contained 172 of them), and published them in a small (400 copies) deluxe edition. But no sooner had he completed the task than a Persian book dealer came all the way from Teheran to see him with a browned and ancient sheaf of papers. Arberry recognised that this Rubáiyát was older still. It had been copied out only 75 years after Omar's death, contained 252 quatrains...