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Correcting Nature. Author Hesketh Pearson has proved his skill as an anecdotal biographer before this, e.g., in G.B.S., Disraeli, Dickens, Oscar Wilde. In The Man, Whistler, he does a similarly deft job on an expatriate Yankee who was not only the most uncrushable wit of his day but an artist who believed he existed to correct and perfect Nature itself...
...eight volumes show little of the intellectual curiosity and range of the writings of Thomas Jefferson (six volumes published, 46 to come). But the character which builds in them, especially during the later years, is more impressive than anything the legendmakers have been able to fashion. The native wit, the humility, the triumphant common sense are as abundant as the 5,000-odd books about him claim they were...
...prove that being a good chemist was not necessarily a handicap for a Harvard president. James Bryant Conant was soon just as much at home presiding over the Harvard Corporation as he had ever been puttering about his laboratory. A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell. But by this week, as he boarded his plane for Germany to begin his job as U.S. High Commissioner (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), professors and teachers across the country knew that James Conant had left...
...fashionable moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...
...witty and everyone kidded it back ("Hey, Mac, are you coming or going?"). It also sold so well that Studebaker's per-share earnings ($8.12) compared favorably with General Motors' and Chrysler's. Buoyed by this success, Loewy later surprised Vance with another specimen of his wit: a quarter-size model of a sports car which eventually turned out to be the 1953 Studebaker. Vance was fascinated, spent hours inspecting the model and suggesting changes. The big decision was made to go into production of the car for 1953-still three years away. It was little enough...