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...longest piece is the first chapter of a novel called "Steven Morton." Sy Heifitz, the author, skillfully develops an interesting character albeit that most of the developments take place in bed. Through a series of failures that culminate in his imprisonment for being a conscientious objector, Steven Morton evolves as a tragic introvert, frail of body, afraid of intimacy. Simple touches make the story effective: two lovers whispering in the kitchen after a date, so as not to wake up the parents; the uneasy triteness of their conversation due to their fear of saying what they really feel. Heifitz tells...
...Canterbury? The next step was to compare MS. 75 with the longest and best authenticated sample of Chaucer's handwriting-a five-line note written while he was controller of customs at the wool quay. Price looked up the note in the London Public Record Office, photographed it, and showed it to Professor Roger Mynors, an expert on medieval handwriting. Yes, said the professor, the writing in the note and the writing in MS. 75 were very much alike...
Victoria (1837-1901) had the longest reign in British history. After a lonely, overprotected childhood, she was awakened one night to be told that her uncle, William IV, was dead, and that she, at 18, was Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers...
...early days of World War II. Manhattan's World-Telegram & Sun stamp writer dashed off a column under the head: KING'S DEATH SPELLS NEW BRITISH ISSUES. The Brooklyn Eagle reported that the King died at "2:30 a.m. Brooklyn time." The Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic took the longest reach of all, ran a statement from climate-plugging Governor Howard Pyle, who had invited the King to recuperate in Arizona. Said Governor Pyle: "The people of Arizona are especially saddened because we had so hoped we might be privileged to help him regain his health...
...annual (since 1911) Monte Carlo Rally, which ended last week, is not the world's longest or fastest race, but is certainly one of the most exacting ever devised for man or machine. At the finish, some 72 grinding hours later, only 16 of the mud-spattered cars crossed the line unpenalized by some form of delay, breakdown or accident, or for missing the deadline at one of the obligatory checkpoints along the route...