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...stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from her martial collection, which has now grown to 30,000 volumes and 40,000 graphic illustrations...
...buttoned up his tunic when he begins to sense that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. His professors are interested in order, not in knowledge; most of his fellow students are toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class, the chief victim is Basini (Marian Seidowsky), a dim-witted boy who steals some money and then finds himself blackmailed into blind obedience by his discoverers. Nightly, in an attic over the dormitory, the two young extortionists sadistically beat Basini, who submits to every indignity with the passivity...
Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...information for Cartographer Robert M. Chapin's diagram of Intrepid posed a particularly sensitive problem. While Bus Mosbacher, his crew and his family were generously cordial and cooperative throughout the intensive reporting and research for the cover story, a certain gentlemanly reserve surfaced when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think...
...reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...