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Helpmeet. In Chicago, when George Leenheer lay down on his couch, his wife considerately removed his shoes "to make him comfortable" before she shot...
...late Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (rhymes with hooch) was best known to Americans not as the author of nearly 60 volumes of novels, essays and poetry, but as editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse, one of the world's best-selling anthologies (500,000 copies since 1900). To Victorian contemporaries Sir Arthur was the pseudonymous "Q," whose tales of adventure (The Splendid Spur, I Saw Three Ships) made him one of Britain's most popular storytellers at the turn of the century. To Cambridge students, from 1912 until his death last year, he was the sharp...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...
...patrol picked up Papen in the Ruhr. They found him dining alone in elegant splendor. He wore his accustomed knickerbockers (he is proud of his legs); on a couch rested a Tyrolean hat with a rakish feather. "There are no German soldiers here," he said in impeccable English. " I can't imagine what you want with...
...wangle more & more U.S. supplies for Russia, and see that they got there. He was living in the Lincoln Room at the White House, and had the President's ear night & day. When Franklin Roosevelt tried to have the Neutrality Act repealed, Harry Hopkins lay down on his couch one day after lunch, called in legal counsel, and dictated a message to Congress in 90 minutes. It was delivered, over the President's signature, with hardly a comma changed...