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...wreck of the Mary Rose moldered for 437 years in the chilly waters of the Solent, as the nautical avenue between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth is called. Time and tide did their work: after centuries of erosion, only the starboard half of the warship's timbers remained intact in their silt-laden grave. But those blackened beams were more than enough last week to provide yet another spectacle for royal eyes. Under the anxious gaze of Prince Charles and thousands of ordinary Britons, the remains of the Mary Rose emerged from the Solent in the embrace...
...outside his own turf, James Alfred Wight passes unnoticed among the readers who have made him famous. Only under his pseudonym is he recognized as the Marcus Welby of the barnyard and the author of four bestsellers about an amiable animal doctor named James Herriot. The fourth, The Lord God Made Them All, revisits the peaceable kingdom of rural England, celebrates simple pleasures and, as before, pours time back and forth like sand in a kitchen hourglass...
...days have not been cloudless. Recognition has brought gawkers, who have altered his little home town (even the local stationer offers soft-center candies FROM THE TOWN OF THE VET). Fans have sometimes tracked him to the unpretentious fieldstone home he shares with his wife of 40 years. Joan Wight- Helen in the books- is a handsome, white-haired woman who does not suffer tourists lightly: "Alf is too kind. I send them packing." And there have been lampoons of the now familiar Herriot style. Monty Python kidded the title verse: "All things gross and angrenous. All creatures gross...
...these are merry critiques, the tribute that humor pays to celebrity. Far more disturbing to the veteran veterinarian is an English tax structure that puts him in the 83% tax bracket. "They keep telling me to retire," he says. "Go to the Isle of Wight or some such. But this is the only job I've ever had. And this is the only place I ever loved. I came here 44 years ago and smelled the summer. I never wanted anything else." Today his idea of luxury is a sun lamp, and "out of town" means the city...
...white, heterosexual Harvard majority has a choice. I, however, have no choice but to fight, for my very existence depends on it. LeRoy Wight Collins...