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...novel in the form of a parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...
...least 62 people on the streets were killed, and of another 120 hospitalized, ten were not expected to survive. Eight of the dead lost their lives from huge hunks of hot metal plunging through the roofs of their homes. Four people in a taxi were crushed and killed by falling wreckage. Ulus Square became an inferno of flame and choking smoke as fires touched off by a burst gas main burned out of control for two hours. Fire trucks and ambulances could not get to the scene, slowed to a crawl by the hundreds of screaming, shoving and panicky people...
...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...
...village Bastille Day fete, a couturier's salon. Hachette's producers rented a whole railroad to film the champagne country east of Paris, spent four days tying up traffic in the Avenue de 1'Opéra to film the perils of taking a Parisian taxi, and magnificently illustrated the verb "smell" by going to a pungent source-the Paris...
...ineffective treatments before or since." When Dr. Mead was a medical student in 1938, the average length of confinement after delivery was 18 days. "As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital." Confinement after delivery is now little more than three days, and fatal blood clotting in such cases is virtually unknown...