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Surely the identifying names below the pictures of Leo X and Alexander VI (TIME, Aug. 16) have been scrambled! ... I am reasonably certain that the end illustration labeled Leo X is really lecherous, worldly old Alexander VI, father of Cesare, Lucrezia, et al. He looks it. Moreover, it is a genuine injustice to the cultured and able...
...great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most important emotion to preserve in maturity [is] the enjoyment of enjoyment." His warm enthusiasms and wide friendships helped many...
Bertrand Russell, philosophical hot potato of U.S. campuses (TIME, Feb. 1, et seq.), let it be known that he could not support his family in the U.S., would therefore return to England. As a jobhunter he had been turned down, he said, by Harvard, Columbia, N.Y.U. and the Universities of Chicago and California...
...Wallace-Jones fight (TIME, July 12, et seq.)? Foxy old Cordell Hull...
...ragged, intense, mystery-man Tito, chief of staff for Ivan Ribar's People's Army of Liberation. British liaison with General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks, standing enemies of the Partisans, has long been known. The Partisans charge that Mihailovich finagles with the Axis (TIME, Dec. 14, et...