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...SCARLET TREE (381 pp.)-Sir Osbert Sitwell-Little, Brown...
Carmine & Scarlet. The campaign had been frenzied, but on voting day there was little trouble for the 70,000 carabinieri and crack police mobilized to keep order. Near the Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...
...built have been superseded. No 1946 infirmary would have its private rooms without running water and its doorways too narrow to wheel beds through. Nor would a 1946 infirmary be without a separation ward for checking incoming patients to be sure they have, for instance, a cold and not scarlet fever. Although the Hygiene Building facilities are superior to Stillman's, it, too, is handicapped by lack of size. Dr. Bock declares that its compactness makes impossible a needed enlargement of the staff of doctors, and hampers research (not duplicated at the medical school) in the prevention of disease...
...scarlet robe and black plush cap of an Oxford doctor, he stumped into Dr. McCluer's living room, tired but happy. A photographer's bulb exploded. "There must be a Russian in the house," he grinned. His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him. Then Winston Churchill stood in the reception line...