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Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...Falling was more than a remote possibility, because Peggy's free-skating routine included the usual spins and splits-plus such exacting specialties as a "half one-and-a-half double cherry flip combination" and a "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle...
...Texas oil business is comparable." Worrisome Rumors. Revue's sale only adds to the turmoil of the illustrateds. None of the competition is particularly worried by Quick's promises to continue to publish Revue, but there is considerable concern about a third party to the deal. Axel Springer, Germany's biggest press king, bought Revue's smaller companion magazine Bravo, as well as Kindler's elaborate printing plant near Munich. Though Springer, who now publishes five big dailies, denies he has any intention of entering the illustrated magazine field, rumors abound that he has formed...
...biggest German salaries are in the auto indus try, topped by an estimated $250,000 paid to Daimler-Benz's Walter Hitzinger. Only one German businessman exceeds the magic million-marks-a-year ($250,000) salary ceiling: Christian Kracht, 44, top manager for Press Magnate Axel Springer...
People of the Book tells not one but two parallel stories. The first follows the public acts and private thoughts of the two great Protestant leaders of the Thirty Years War, the brilliant commander King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his equally brilliant chief minister, Axel Oxenstierna. The second story dives into the ebb and flow of destruction across the shattered principalities of Central Europe to follow the fates of a young man, Lars Larsen, and the lovely little sister he is trying to bring up and lead to safety. The two stories join only at one point, where Oxenstierna...