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Sitting Pretty. Clifton Webb is waspishly amusing as the world's most versatile baby-sitter (TIME, March...
Kirkland House: N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49, Robert L. Fischelis '50, George W. Keitt, Jr. '50, Charles H. Tanner '49, Arthur F. Bickford...
...PARTNERSHIP (544 pp.)-Beatrice Webb, edited by Barbara Drake and Margaret I. Cole-Longmans, Green...
...Sidney Webb was shy and 31, Beatrice Potter* ardent and 32, when Cupid realized that they were made for each other. Courtship began at the Glasgow Co-operative Congress of 1890, where Sidney hewed one of Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...
...Beatrice Webb died in 1943, aged 85; Sidney followed her last year. To the day of her death, Beatrice was at work on an autobiography based on extracts from her voluminous diaries. My Apprenticeship, which covered her first 30 years, appeared in 1926; Our Partnership, which carries on to 1911, is the next (and last) installment of the unfinished work. "The difficulty," Beatrice Webb realized, "is to tell the truth without being self-conscious about it"-and the result of her efforts is a natural account of a married life which, though it might sound like hell to most...