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...John the Orangeman," with his donkey cart, was another well-known figure of bygone years. It was he who translated the University's "Veritas" as "ter Hell wid Yale." Colonel Charles R. Apted, chief of the Yard police, was the victim of many a student prank, but was noted for his ability in saving as well as seizing...
Historian Milton Waldman, a Cleveland-born expatriate, who has lived in England for more than 20 years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey...
...French have been so busy trying to be one, rattling the saber and making pretentious claims . . . that they haven't even been able to . . . keep their people from going cold and hungry this win ter...
...defied classification : Gabriel Heat-ter, whose heart-plucking histrionics gross him $200,000 a year. Variety finds him politically "confused," lists his qualifications...
...their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program and fulfill it." Unless sacrifices were made, he implied, the win ter's "fateful deadline" might well bring starvation, political unrest and violence. He did not say so, but he was talking mostly to his own Government...