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...hear now but its remarkable & I'd look him up right away." Fitzgerald's letter was filed away at Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan, along with the publishing house's correspondence with hundreds of other authors, including George Santayana, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling and that bright young man Hemingway. Last week Charles Scribner Jr. announced that his firm was donating the archives of its 121 years in the business to Princeton University. As a first installment, he gave Princeton President Robert Goheen the Fitzgerald file, including 468 letters and 1,248 other documents...
...horrors, the hymnal ecumenically includes several Roman Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based...
Shimmering Dust. The major theater of war is the broad Punjab plain, which stretches flat from horizon to horizon. It is lushly green, dotted with clumps of trees, laced by canals. The days are swelteringly hot, and dust clouds shimmer in the glaring sun. It is Rudyard Kipling country, immortalized in such books as Kim and Indian Tales. And the soldiers on both sides are very like the men Kipling so deeply revered. The officers are British-trained, and many are graduates of Sandhurst. They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted...
...Rudyard Kipling, The Explorer...
This version of a poem by Rudyard Kipling is much quoted in Viet Nam by Americans who are desperately trying to hustle Premier Nguyen Khanh's regime into stepped-up action against the ever more aggressive Red guerrillas. The latest factor that hampers U.S. efforts is that old Asian standby, the rainy season, which is now beginning over South Viet Nam's Mekong Delta. As usual, while the mud and discomfort would seem to be the same for both sides, they favor the enemy...