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...lone photographer who had a date to stay home and play Santa Claus, the whole Tokyo bureau figured on a Christmas dinner of raw fish, rice, sukiyaki, and U.S. turkey at John Luter's $20-a-month seacoast villa. Bureau Chief Carl Mydans who, with his wife, Shelley, spent two Christmases in Japanese concentration camps, expected 15 familyless French, Chinese, British, U.S. and Filipino correspondents to join in. Cabled Correspondent Luter: "After dinner we'll feed the carp in the 100-foot fishpond and sing carols to the accompaniment of a Japanese samisen. It will be an international...
...Shelley had genius but he would not have been a success on Wall Street-though the poet showed a flash of business knowledge in refusing to lend money to Byron...
...Vienna contains brilliant, mostly sympathetic pen-portraits of all the principal actors, but Britain's Lord Castlereagh is Nicolson's favorite. In his day, Castlereagh was the best-hated statesman in England. (Byron called him "the vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want," and "the intellectual eunuch"; Shelley wrote the famous lines: I met Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence of Poland, Saxony, Genoa, but when he found these aims were unattainable he set them aside. "The Congress of Vienna," he said...
Born. To Carl Mydans, 38, LIFE photographer, and Shelley Mydans, 31, LIFE researcher, radio commentator and novelist (The Open City); after eight years of marriage: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Seth Anthony. Weight...
They will also find an interesting section devoted to non-Catholic poets who, Noyes feels, expressed Catholic thought and Catholic emotion. These include Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. Especially timely are the atomic-age overtones in Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres, written by Agnostic Henry Adams...