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...HAUNTED PALACE, A LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (408 pp).-Frances Winwar-Harper...
When a West Point court-martial decided that Plebe Edgar Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...
Brazilian spiritism has its European origins as well. Inspired by the lore of mediums and table-rapping in the books of Frenchman Allan Kardec, the Brazilian Spiritual Federation was founded 74 years ago, now claims 3,600 centers throughout the country. In the 1950 census some 900,000 Brazilians declared themselves spiritists, but best estimates are that about 10 million of Brazil's 61 million population now indulge in the cults. One, the Confederação Espirita da Umbanda, claims, in Rio alone, more than 1,000 centers, known as terreiros (earth places...
...student living there will ever have an experience like that of one Smith alumna who lived in an old-fashioned dorm. Clambering in through a ground-floor window one night after hours (10 p.m.), she felt a friendly shove from behind, looked around to see Smith President William Allan Neilson winking...
...Four of Founder Hartford's grandchildren and a great-granddaughter each own 10% of the voting stock. They are George Huntington Hartford II, theatrical producer and art fancier, of Manhattan; Mrs. John F. Bryce of Manhattan; Mrs. Charles Robertson of Huntington, L.I.; Mrs. Allan J. Mclntosh of Bedford Village, N.Y.; and Mrs. Henry G. Carpenter of Shelter Island, N.Y. Five other descendants each own 2% of the outstanding voting stock, and another 40% is in the John A. Hartford Foundation set up by brothers John and George Hartford (TIME...