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...Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 186 pages; $14.95). In the England of 1906, when there was less leisure time and no television, Naturalist Edith Holden made almost daily entries in a diary and interspersed among them watercolor paintings of the birds, flowers and grasses she saw on her walks. The result, never before published, was a delicately assembled chronicle of a year in the Midlands that included the diarist's favorite poems and aphorisms. It is published here in a fine facsimile edition that pleases the mind...
...risk of provoking a head-on battle with the women, however, the male legislators will probably do nothing about the motto. Which brings to mind a loose translation of an adage from Winston Churchill that Maryland's lawmakers might adopt as their own before things reach a showdown: Parlare, parlare, e sempre meglio che fare la guerra, fare la guerra. Or, in the original English, "To jaw-jaw is always better than...
...glad Winston Churchill was around at 65 to pull our civilization out of the coals...
...decision by the House of Representatives last Monday to impose an 18-month delay on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ban on saccharin stemmed largely from constituent pressure, Dr. J. Winston, acting director of the Office of Health Policy Information, said yesterday...
...probably right to prohibit the use of saccharin as a food additive, Winston said, but added that he does not oppose the House action...