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JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been...
...arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized at the time, she was with Roosevelt there on the day he died-April 12, 1945. To the very last, according to Daniels, Mrs. Roosevelt was "bitter and jealous of Lucy...
Geneticist Bentley Glass incited the fuss last winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts...
...Southern bellettrists to appear since Carson McCullers. Begun when the author was 13 and rewritten intermittently for more than a decade, Moss transpires in the mind and immediate vicinity of a white-trash waif. The girl's mother, a cold-eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs, and imagines the lost meaning of her life in bizarre epiphanies: a glimpse of flowers growing in a dead mule, an encounter with an albino Negro boy who "ain't got biddie brains...