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Natural Habitat. In Waterloo, Iowa, Harold Andrews, a dog lover, was chased out of house & home by his wife, got court permission to live in the doghouse...
...peace. They did not even hope to find all the answers, but they had some modest ambitions. They heard their presiding officer, Britain's fiery little Minister of Education "Red Ellen" Wilkinson, suggest that if England and France could just agree on how to describe the Battle of Waterloo in their history books, it would help. They heard Clement Attlee's worthy bromides: "In your hands rests here and now the opportunity of establishing a common front against ignorance...
Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
With much whizzing and sound effects, the Colonel was shot up in a rocket ship to a star, looked down at the earth through a telescope and was startled to see the battle of Waterloo just going on. (Said Fadiman: "It took the light rays from Napoleon's battle almost 200 light years to travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion...
Napoleonic End. In Portland, Ore., two prisoners escaped from the county jail but got only as far as Waterloo...