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...last April. Since he did not have his degree (he was one credit short in physical education), the camp tagged him "clerk-typist" and thought no more about him. Then last fortnight Shult's old professor, Geneticist Carl C. Lindegren, let out a blast. The private, said the professor, "is the outstanding mathematical genius I have encountered in 30 years," and the Army was "letting him wither on the vine...
...story, revealed that Shult had already published highly technical papers now being used at Oak Ridge. Speedily the red-faced Army announced that it would reassign Smut to the Weapons Research Branch of the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Army Chemical Center, Maryland. Instead of 711 Clerk-Typist, Shult will now be tagged as 013 Mathematician...
...Bernice, who gets up at 5:45. In his 1957 station wagon he drives Bernice to the Trenton station for an early train to Manhattan, then returns for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, orange juice and milk. He works from 8 to noon (he is a two-finger typist). Says Cozzens, who spent eight years on By Love Possessed: "For every three pages I write, I throw away two. On a good day, I get two pages done...
...island invented by Novelist Evelyn Waugh as a basis for his superb and little-remembered tragic farce about Abyssinia, Black Mischief. It also evokes headline-real Bechuanaland, which recently welcomed back chastened Chief Seretse Khama after his six-year exile in London, imposed when Seretse married a white London typist. And finally, it resembles Kenya...
Thus, like a shower of rain after years of drought, the six-year exile of Seretse Khama, onetime chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced...