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...common touch, able to rouse a crowd or charm a citizen. She had flattering portraits painted and copies widely distributed. She encouraged balladeers to pen propagandistic songs. Her marvelous mythmaking machinery cultivated a mystic bond with the English people. "We all loved her," wrote her godson Sir John Harington, "for she said she loved...
That same day, 38 miles away, in La Plagne, the Canadian luger Harington Telford was saying the same thing. "The past four years have been a struggle to get here," he said, noting how his 19th-place finish in Calgary had become an 18th-place finish here. "I am 25 years old now, and I've really managed to make zero progress in the past four years." A few feet away, Robert Pipkins, a 19-year-old American in the first flush of Olympic enthusiasm, his beaming parents waving a GO ROB. SLIDE IN PRIDE banner around him, looked over...
Their mother says the children used few "formal" textbooks, but instead read novels and instruction manuals. Their favorite books include Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, The Double Helix by James Watson and Homer's Iliad...
Tobin had lost his second game to master Dan Harington, but finished off his last opponent handily. "I just wiped him off the board with the Saemisch Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defense," he remarked afterwards. "He never developed his pieces. He played like a fish...
LIGHTNING BUG by Donald Harington. 212 pages. Lawrence/Delacorte...