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...smoking nor drinking in the Eliot household. The Eliots were a literary-minded family: evenings, Tom, his brother and his five sisters would cluster around father as he read Dickens to them. Tom's mother wrote a dramatic poem on the life of Savonarola. Tom Eliot was a frail and quiet child. Often, when friends wanted him to come out and play, they found him curled up in a big leather armchair, reading...
Dressed in black from head to foot, frail, tiny (4 ft. 7 in.) Felicitas Amorin de Fritscher looked older than her 39 years. As she dusted the carved cedar choir stalls of Lima's 300-year-old cathedral, her son Federico, 11, worked beside her. "I came to live here 17 years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid...
...Reverdy Cassius Ransom is one of the patriarchs of Negro religious life in the U.S. The oldest bishop in one of the country's oldest Negro denominations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church,* frail-looking Bishop Ransom, 88, still works-as research director-for the church he has served for more than 60 years. In the current issue of the picture magazine Ebony, Reverdy Ransom writes his "Confessions of a Bishop," a gentle, detached look into some of the trials and triumphs of a man who has ministered well to his people...
...Tablecloth. At 75, Fritz Kreisler thought he had reached the age of "physical debilities and moral responsibilities." His health has been frail ever since he was struck down by a truck in Manhattan in 1941, and his hearing has grown poor. He was fiddling only occasionally; he did not want to "stand in the way of the younger generation," even though he thought that there were "too many crazy mothers who drive their children into careers when they're not fitted for it." He had some advice for kids who are fitted for it: no teacher after...
India-born Eric Blair, who died last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 30), was a frail, intense Englishman with an Eton education, a fine nose for humbug and a genius for exposing it. He was only 46 when he died, but in his lifetime he had seen too much of the super-humbug of totalitarianism to be complacent about it. No writer had done more to shatter the complacency of others. As George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them...