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Even his greatest admirers would admit that James Madison was not an imposing figure of a man. Standing only 5 ft. 6 in., the slightly built Madison appeared to be even shorter, and his face wore a look of perpetual perplexity. The shy son of a well-to-do Virginia planter, Madison early began to seek consolation in books, developed a deft, concise writing style by the time he graduated from Princeton in 1771 and set out on a career of molding men's minds rather than swaying their passions...
...Editor Davis points out. Hawkins was far less sentimental than Boswell about Johnson's marriage, at 25, to a well-to-do widow almost twice his age. Boswell paints it as a love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of convenience. The chilling dispassion with which Hawkins could dissect a friend's motives is apparent in his remarks on the widow's death. Johnson, he reports, showed an inconsolable sorrow, and a return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this...
...well-to-do railway building contractor, Heimito von Doderer was born and has lived most of his life in Vienna, is considered Austria's most eminent novelist. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in World War I, fought in Hitler's Luftwaffe in World War II. Of his ten books of fiction and five other works, The Demons, meticulously translated by Richard and Clara Winston, is the first to see English...
Furniture? In Los Angeles, in addition to artificial grass, the well-to-do often rent their minks when they travel to cooler climates. "I can't mention any names," says Rent-a-Mink's Lillian Feinberg confidentially, "but a lot of our furs went to Washington for the inaugural." Many stars rent automobiles, for as business and professional men learned long ago, renting meant none of the headaches of car ownership, and the monthly statements make for handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims...
Wild in the Country (20th Century-Fox) casts Elvis Presley, the well-to-do Memphis meadowlark, as a farm boy who fears he bears the mark of Cain because he clonked his brother with a milking stool. The parole board takes the broad view, however, and soon Elvis is out haylofting with two chicks, brown-haired Millie Perkins, a long way from The Diary of Anne Frank, and Tuesday Weld, a 17-year-old who is going to look a great deal like Saturday night before she is 20. Afternoons he spends with Hope Lange, a widowed psychologist...