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...first truly English King since Charles II, George is also the first King since the fallen Stuarts to rule as well as reign. His grandfather would content himself with such trivia as choosing military uniforms and mastering the intricacies of court etiquette -leaving matters of policy to his Prime Minister, the great Robert Walpole. George III, by contrast, has chosen a First Minister he can dominate, the fat, indolent Lord North, and he involves himself in all kinds of matters, from the appointment of an obscure curate to a country parish to the planning of future military campaigns...
Okay, movie buffs and trivia fans everywhere, it's name-that-star time: What saturninely handsome actor is signed up for 170, that's right, 170 movies, with 50 of them currently in production...
...less a well-shaped and readable book than a random walk on the subject by an author who may be thought of as the writing man's jogger. Besides frequent patches of straight autobiography, there are countless obligatory examples of the disguised autobiography known as the nostalgia-trivia game, including a play-byplay account of how Howard Ehmke almost (but not quite) pitched a no-hit game for the Red Sox on May 28, 1924. A fan as in fanatic, Michener further demonstrates the dread total recall of Jock Lit in reporting his meetings with everybody from Montreal Canadiens...
...hear 100 or so cases a year. Most are for violations of the code in dealing with absurdly picayune incidents, such as a cadet's lying about having shined his shoes. When he was Secretary of the Army, Howard ("Bo") Callaway complained, "The honor code often deals with trivia." No matter: the trivial could get a cadet "separated"-expelled-as surely and swiftly as the significant...
...your story about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, "Putting Trivia Ahead of Safety" [May 3]: On a recent visit to our city hall, I noticed a small rock, placed for decorative purposes on a ledge above a doorway. Over it was a sign proclaiming: WATCH FOR FALLING ROCKS...