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A white demigoddess to servants on her Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and...
Martha's wispy plot, laid in 18th century England, has to do with two ladies from the Queen's court who, as a joke, indenture themselves as servants to two farmers, fall in love with and marry them after one farmer has been discovered to be the Earl...
The Perfect Victorian. No man better symbolizes the strengths and hopes of independent Nigeria than Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (pronounced Bah-lay-wah). At 47, he is slight of figure (5 ft. 8½ in., 136 Ibs.), and his wispy mustache and greying, crew-cut beard make him look older than...
In the title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael...
Fanning Old Fires. In 1939 Dr. Townsend sat in dejected silence in the gallery as the House of Representatives crushed his plan, 302 to 97. By then, social security was all the thing. (Townsend contemptuously refused to accept his own social security paycheck of $99.15 until he was 86.) After...