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...American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal military man. Among U.S. academicians, it is cherished as the schoolboy once cherished Parson Weems's Life of Washington...
Eight of them were dead almost as soon as the earth beneath their feet began to lurch. Falling bricks or masonry killed an eleven-year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
...lines here and there just to show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film...
...every British schoolboy knows, famed Lloyd's of London began 260 years ago in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, a gathering place of City insurance men. It grew into the world's most potent body of insurance underwriters, still heralds ship disasters by tolling its doleful Lutine Bell,* and through its 2,500 members writes policies on everything from the Queen Elizabeth to Betty Grable's legs...
...Louis interviewer, named his favorite American writer: tireless Crime Fictioneer Erie Stanley Gardner. As for U.S. customs, Waugh complained that Sunday blue laws had deprived him of wine with his meals in Mobile, Ala. He found this situation "a frightful disgrace," which was driving many a wretched U.S. schoolboy to furtive whisky nipping...