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When Mark Twain toured Europe in 1891, he discovered that France had just the treatment for his rheumatic right arm: a soothing bath of spring water at Aix-les-Bains. "I began to take the baths and found them most enjoyable," he wrote, "so enjoyable that if I hadn't had a disease I would have borrowed one just to have a pretext for going...
Jenner is Jenner and Morse is Morse, and never the twain should meet. But last week Oregon's eyebrowed, highbrowed, liberal Democrat Wayne Morse rose in the Senate to blast the $3.6 billion foreign-aid authorization bill and found himself shoulder to shoulder not only with those strapping Neanderthal Republicans, Indiana's Bill Jenner and Nevada's Molly Malone, but with Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge too. And when the bill came to a vote after three days of debate, they stood together as part of a notable rear-view rear guard of 25 (see box), roundly beaten...
Married. Archibald Henderson, 80, jolly, early-days interpreter of the Einstein theory, as well as official biographer of the late George Bernard Shaw ("Henderson collected me"), drama critic, historian of the South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...
Bilingual Spellbinder. No simple tribesman, Mboya bounces around the countryside in a Volkswagen. His library is studded with the works of Mark Twain, Tom Paine and Plato, and his politics have the pinkish hue of the Nye Bevan Laborites who have taken him up in Britain. He is articulate in English and a spellbinder in Swahili. Last year he toured the U.S. and returned home with $35,000 from the C.I.O.-A.F.L. to build a headquarters for his Kenya Labor Federation...
...River Stay 'way from My Door, it is brother Ira's harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting...