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...winter's hibernation in his white bungalow in Aberdeen, Hulet calculated his season's kills at 56, fretted to his wife about a lost dog ("Queen's a part of me, kind of wildlike and vicious to everyone but me"), and spun yarns to a visitor about great hunts of the past: "The closest call I've ever knowed, I shot a bear at close range that was tearin' at the dogs. The bear he jumped up and leaped right at me. I shot him in the air and jumped sideways, fallin' full length...
...success of Auxilium Latinum helps convince Editor Warsley, retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested...
...heard opinion that the speed of modern communications has reduced diplomats to the status of their governments' Western Union boys. He illustrates the point by a detailed account of the life at the U.S. embassy during the 1958 Lebanon crisis (he was on the scene as an interested visitor). Ambassador Robert M. McClintock's problems ranged from the influx of new code clerks required for the emergency ("No serious love affairs resulted," said one of the resident clerks later) to the matter of just how to cope with the arrival of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
...Miami Herald's mysterious visitor, who called herself Evelyn Hill, produced a news tip that made city-room ears prick up: the Havana whereabouts of Austin Frank Young, 38, Miami-based adventurer who, sentenced to 30 years for conspiring against the Fidel Castro regime, had broken out of a Cuban jail in Pinar del Rio province less than 24 hours earlier...
Perhaps a million and a half Indians joined in the greatest welcome this country ever has given a foreign visitor...