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...What am I trying to express?" Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes would exclaim to his friend, the famous writer. "Say it! Say it!" Then Rudyard Kipling would say it, "and if the phrase suited not, Rhodes would . . . work it over, chin a little down, till it satisfied him." In such a way, the great man finally wrote his will, and set up the scholarships* that he hoped would "encourage and foster . . . the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world." Last week, on the 100th anniversary of Rhodes's birth and the 50th anniversary of the scholarships' founding...
Face to Face (Huntmgton Hartford; RKO Radio) is a two-part picture of mixed merits that gets its title from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West. ("But there is neither 'East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...
...Table Mountain, that looks toward the point where the royal blue waters of the Indian Ocean merge into the Atlantic, a huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away. The Ford parked behind...
Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling (June 15, 1890): "Mr. Kipling does not write like an artist . . . The stories are just such short, snappy things as the editors of sporting papers know are acceptable to nine-tenths of their readers...
...Some of Rudyard Kipling's mood overtook U.S. military men as they warily watched the steel-shod paws of Communism outstretched. Harry Truman warned: "We cannot yet be sure ... It is still too early to say what they have in mind." In Korea, General Van Fleet kept his men in sharp contact with the enemy; the Navy and Air Force ordered fresh reinforcements to the Far East. U.S. military men agreed that the negotiations would probably be a matter of weeks...