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Columbus & John Smith. The Parke-Bernet man dug deeper. He found a copy of Hakluyt's Principall Navigations . . . dated 1589; a printed letter in Latin by Christopher Columbus describing his trip to the New World; Captain John Smith's history of Virginia and Massachusetts; and John Eliot'...
He never seemed seriously interested in girls, but occasionally he did go out with them. Old schoolmates particularly remember a French girl whom Sheen dated; she later became a nun.
Some of Hardy's ideas, shaped and misshaped by igth century science, now seem dated and more than dubious; but his struggle with faith-his inability to believe in Christianity and his lingering wish to return to it-is all too contemporary. One of his finest poems, The Oxen...
Agent Gillis was no expert at first, but he became one by talking to book dealers and poring through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing...
Golden Boy (by Clifford Odets),though perhaps the most popular of Odets' plays, scarcely ranks among the best. Its theme -the demoralizing values that go with quick, flashy American success-is as vital today as it was during the '30s. But Odets' treatment, though often dramatic, was...