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Within three years, the Trollopes were back in England, so destitute that they could hardly buy shoes for their five children; "Trollope's Folly" remained standing until 1881, becoming successively the home of the Ohio Mechanics Society and a popular bawdyhouse. No whit discouraged, Thomas Trollope set to work erecting a new folly - this time, an eight-volume encyclopedic history of the world's monasteries and convents, "with all their orders and subdivisions." The family began to sicken and starve. Frances Trollope decided that only she could save...
...racial intolerance on the West Coast had abated not a whit...
...charm. Three or four critics swap frank opinions about a current bestseller, while the author sits by and takes it. Then the author gets a chance to talk back. Participants in last week's recordings: the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett, Story magazine's Whit Burnett, American Magazine's John K. M. McCaffery (who acts as m.c.) and Author Richard Wright (Black Boy -TIME, March...
...French relations, queasy from the first week of the invasion of North Africa, queasier since the liberation of France, had been settled not a whit by the full story of the failure of Franklin Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle to meet at Algiers (TIME...
...American romantics like Walt Whit man have cried that democratic Americans "rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But the U.S., says Brogan, "was made by politicians" - types who readily indulged in romantic rhetoric but were basically "matter-of-fact men . . . with a clear head for bookkeeping." "To have created a free government . . . without making a sacrifice of adequate efficiency or of liberty is the American achievement...