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After lettering the doors of Leverett and Winthrop Houses with eighteen-inch scarlet B's and U's the vandals bedecked House squash courts with 2-foot-high characters...
...Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate history...
Helpful Patients. Once the Navajos are won over, Dr. Salsbury says, they make wonderful patients. They rarely show irritation and are stoical about pain. They also seem to be impervious to many of the white man's diseases: Dr. Salsbury has never found a case of scarlet fever among the Navajos. Also rare: diabetes, breast cancer, baldness...
Solemn Ceremony. But there was still time left for the Lords to perform a fateful function. In their chamber, the Royal Assent was solemnly given to the Indian Independence Bill. In the presence of five royal commissioners (in cocked hats and scarlet robes with ermine and sable-edged capes), the clerk of the Parliament pronounced: "Le Roy Le veutl" (the king wills it). With these words, Britain had abandoned the greatest single base of her power. The subcontinent which Robert Clive's military mastery and Benjamin Disraeli's diplomatic craft had made the cornerstone of empire...
...Scarlet Smears. Outside the hotel entrance 18 French war orphans waited and wilted. "Vive I'Argentine, vive la France," they piped as Evita's car arrived. She hugged two of the youngsters, kissed them, leaving smears of scarlet lipstick on their sweaty cheeks...