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Artillery fire had damaged several gravestones between Keats's and the pyramid of Caius Cestius, a stone's throw away. Other greats in the same cemetery: Shelley, Trelawny, John Addington Symonds. Keats's name goes unmentioned on his own gravestone ("Here lies one whose name was writ in water"), but is inscribed on that of his painter-friend Severn, buried by his side...
...rare evenings when he gets home early, Jan Smuts meditates a moment or two over a book of philosophy, or reads a verse of Shelley, or turns to the well-thumbed Greek Testament that goes with him everywhere...
Written by Elsa Shelley with seriousness of purpose and not just an eye on the box-office, "Pick-Up Girl" controls the natural impulse to become lurid and is carefully handled...
...Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years as prisoners of the Japs...
...read the 50 or 60 factual volumes in the plain bookcase and drove in Rock' Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...