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...life is so rich that he threatens to entertain a visiting royal duke, presumably the Duke of York, later King George VI of Britain. For years Tony had lived in a shack and never learned to read, but he employed a man to read good books to him-like Rudyard Kipling...
...pretty young lady" to partner him at bridge, she declined, saying sweetly: "I am afraid, Sir, I can't even tell a King from a Knave." Most of Edward's biographers have had the same trouble: none has satisfactorily explained how and why the monarch whom Rudyard Kipling called "a corpulent voluptuary" was also modern Britain's most agile royal diplomat and plenipotentiary. Now, Boston-bred Virginia Cowles has shown that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married to former Under Secretary of State for Air Aidan Crawley...
...give his only son an English gentleman's education, Motilal put him in the hands of an Irish tutor, Ferdinand Brooks. Under Brooks's guidance, Jawaharlal ranged widely through English literature, one of his favorite authors being that apostle of the white man's burden, Rudyard Kipling...
...most severe case of India fever in literature since Rudyard Kipling was brought down by it is undoubtedly that of Novelist John Masters (TIME, March 28). His goal is as massive as it is simple: to tell the whole story of the English in India in 35 historical novels covering 300 years. At 41, with five of the books behind him (including Bhowani Junction, Night Runners of Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words...
...Life of Rudyard Kipling, by C. E. Carrington, went a long way toward explaining the mind, the character (and so the work) of the great British writer who was not afraid to celebrate character, whether in his countrymen or in his country...