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...Waugh files, going back to shortly after his death [1966] to look for evidence, while trying to renegotiate some of the paperback royalty rates." Suddenly the familiar rustle of contracts became the startling flutter of serendipity. "Out of the 1970 file," says Sissons, "dropped a typescript of Chapter I of Charles Ryder's Schooldays...
...words that Waugh intended as the opening to a Brideshead sequel. The book, begun in 1945, the same year that Brideshead appeared, was to have been a flashback to Charles Ryder's life before he went up to Oxford and met Sebastian Flyte. But the one chapter, titled "Ryder by Gas-Light," is all he wrote. Sissons believes that the author decided to abandon the project after discussions with Peters, the late founder of the agency and one of Waugh's close friends...
...another chapter to the ever-expanding volume of the Harvard women's track team's history. The thinclads captured third place in this weekend's Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships, the best finish in Harvard history...
...Kahn relates, Whitney's father's estate came to $178,893.655. But Jock affected a common touch. Kahn entitles one chapter "Nice if You Can't Afford Pewter," the remark Jock made in reply to a rich friend's compliment concerning the family silver. After he inherited a good part of his father's nine figures, he took a 565 a month job as a bank clerk. Commuting to work no his yacht every morning. Jock "scared the fish," a friend observed...
...Paul Nitze to conclude, "Sure there are nuclear weapons on the face of the earth, but maybe--just maybe--someday, they'll disappear." With overworked examples--if thorough ones--and with an endless array of profound questions. One can only ask why the author didn't spend an extra chapter analyzing the motives and machinations of men and whistleblowers...