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...work his magic-make disciples out of followers and converts out of adversaries and victory out of defeat-not because he is a Southern hero in the Senate but because he is a Senate hero who happens to be from the South. He basks in the tradition, the reticent splendor, the interplay of interests, the quests for compromise of the chamber that have been called a Southern institution. With incomparable style he translates his Southern virtues and personal virtues-courage, courtesy, consistency, consideration for others, hard work, good faith, sense of history-into the equipment needed to belong to, even...
...European playboy. His bland face and portly (240-odd Ibs.) figure, resembling those of a large and benevolent turtle, were constantly caught by news cameras-at the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, on a fashionable beach at Cannes, at a lavish masquerade ball in Venice, or amidst panoplies of Oriental splendor as devoted followers balanced his weight in gifts of diamonds, gold or platinum on Moslem feast days. Readers of the sports page knew the Aga Khan as an ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners. (The day before his death, a thoroughbred named Damseesa, carrying his flashy...
...before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed in a superb setting of grandiloquent language and historical splendor...
...came to a bloody end with the Indian Mutiny. In a splendid narrative, British Newsman James Leasor has brought a bewilderingly confused mass of material into focus where it belongs-on the Red Fort of Delhi and the old walled city where the last of the Moguls sat in splendor and squalor amid his treasure, eunuchs and his 700-year past...
Most spectacular part of the book is a collection of 248 color photographs (see following pages) showing the world at worship in its almost infinite variety-under spire and cupola, in unadorned home and amid Renaissance splendor, with plain, quiet face and behind garish ceremonial mask. Along with essays on the fundamentals of the six faiths, the book presents samplings of their scriptures. Standout among the articles: the introductory essay on "How Mankind Worships" by the late Dr. Paul Hutchinson. longtime (1947-55) editor of the Christian Century. Though an uncompromising enemy of the syncretistic idea that what mankind needs...