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...throne, the fledgling King whose "close-cropped hair was tawny as a lion's" threw off the yoke of the luxury-loving Medes, but tolerantly let Astyages live out his life in a pleasant alcoholic haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve his new master...
...York area. In New Orleans, Attorney Thomas B. Lemann finds himself hard put to explain his own harpsichordia ("Why do you prefer bourbon to Scotch?"), but admits that "there is a simplicity about it" that appeals strongly to his children, who are being raised without any knowledge of the upstart piano. Most harpsichord buffs have a strong proprietary sense. When a New Orleans amateur, Charles Hazlett, lent his harpsichord to touring Virtuoso Fernando Valenti, the visitor was amazed. Said Valenti: "It's almost like lending somebody your wife...
...After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus a neglect of his home ground, caused him that same year to lose his Senate seat to a persuasive upstart named Jack Kennedy. Eisenhower appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (says Lodge: "I have reason to be grateful to Kennedy. It's because of him that I went...
...treating infantile paralysis back in the early 19403, the late Australian-born Sister Elizabeth Kenny suddenly found an enthusiastic backer in Minneapolis' Mayor Marvin L. Kline. He was the prime mover in getting the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation, Inc. set up in Minneapolis in 1943. In 1946, after upstart Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey ousted him from office, Republican Kline became the foundation's executive director...
...Plots to Shakespeare were like pots to Merlin: any borrowed tub, from Holinshed's Chronicles to Plutarch's Lives, would do to mix the magic in. One of the intellectuals of the day, Robert Greene, addressing his university-trained colleagues, Nashe, Peele and Marlowe, sneered at the "upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." But Londoners worshiped...