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Most industry watchers agree on one thing: telephone service has been too cheap, for too long, with costs spread unevenly. Says Lee Selwyn, president of Economics and Technology Inc. of Boston, a telecommunications consultant: "People were simply not aware of how cheap service really...
...Bringing out these problems now is optimistic," says Professor Selwyn Enzer, who directed the study, since doomsaying can lead to debate and thus to urban planning. The nutshell solution is in the summary of the exhaustive study. "Unplanned growth in the mature Los Angeles of 2001," the authors say, "will not be permitted to occur...
DIED. S. (for Selwyn) Kip Farrington, 78, gentleman sportsman who wrote about his hobbies of deep-sea fishing, amateur hockey and railroading in 24 books and as Field and Stream's salt-water-fishing editor for 35 years; in Southampton...
...hero himself is a double fiction: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley was the most famous of Pound's poetic creations, a British reactionary born in a savage half-century, "out of date with his time." Findley's Mauberley rushes to catch up with his century. Cowering in a crumbling Alpine hotel that has seen grander times and better people, he writes a graffiti testament in rooms once occupied by the likes of Isadora Duncan and Somerset Maugham. He has barely finished when someone stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps...
...author also mixes the actual with the fantastic when he concocts a cabal called "Penelope." Its conspirators are a strange admixture of the notorious and celebrated, including Perfumer François Côty, Sir Alan Paisley, Field Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never...