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...four Herriot books are bolts cut from the same Scottish tweed, carefully interweaving the local patois (Owt a gurt cow wi' nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers...
...smile is as warm as the sunshine that engulfs the room. In a beige tweed skirt and tasteful silk blouse, with every dark blond hair in place and her huge hazel eyes clear, Nancy Reagan looks as much like spring as the tulips and hyacinths that festoon the room. And when she starts talking, the control is there. No, she had not worried much about physical assault, not any more. Reagan had been threatened frequently while Governor in Sacramento; in 1968 a security man shot at someone trying to fire-bomb the Governor's residence...
...choice was between working for a local lawyer who wanted to improve the Ivy-League image of his office, or for a bank--a little slow, perhaps, behind the teller's window, but good money for smiling and counting. So I wore tweed and joked with earnest sophistication everywhere I applied for a summer...
...summer faded into September and I began to pack for school. I felt little regret over leaving my job behind. I daydreamed about tearful farewells between the tweed blazers and silky slit-skirts at the bank and wistfully vowed that next summer would be different. Maybe if I wear my blazer and smoke a pipe. . . .CrimsonWilliam F. Hammond...
...sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes the call on the set. Bell tells him that Israeli soldiers have shot and wounded eleven...