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...1760s, Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, took up with Elizabeth Keate Macie, reputed descendant of Henry VII. One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke. Wrote he: "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten...
...always attracted a great deal of attention, his admirers ranging in degree from the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) down. But once upon a time respectable people like the Henry Adamses considered it beneath their dignity to speak to him, and Henry James, who knew him, dismissed him as a "tenth-rate cad." Nowadays his tomb in a Paris cemetery is said to draw more pilgrims than Balzac's or Chopin's. His name is as certain of immortality as that of Adams, James or the Venerable Bede...
Clio, Muse of History, is just a girl who can't say no. She has succumbed for the seventh time in six years to the same man-Upton Sinclair. But in their latest encounter, Volume VII of his novel-history of the 20th Century, 67-year-old Sinclair's powers seem to be failing...
...There has never been, a Hadrian VII-except in "Baron Corvo's" brilliant, perverse novel about an English Pope who chose that title...
...Germans' girls" in Norway, fearing that her head would be shaved for fraternizing with Nazis during the occupation, carried her appeal for mercy to the throne. In a letter addressed to King Haakon VII she admitted that she had been "associating with" a German soldier whom she professed to love very much. Now repentant, and suddenly mindful of the consequences, she told the King her prayer for salvation: "Dear God, suffer me not to be shaved. If you cannot prevent men from inflicting this shearing upon me, prevent my soul from being clipped." She hoped for royal understanding...