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He was born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable...
As a beginning collector years ago, Gulbenkian did not always show classic taste. He fell in love with, and bought, the original of the popular old chromo, September Morn, a fact which embarrasses him nowadays. But few experts could criticize the taste, or the diversity, of a collection which included...
The standard formula for making a historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has his own way of handling the formula: double the quantities, double the result. Last year, U.S. readers got their first taste of the treatment in The Egyptian, a...
Talk with Angels. In his early, field-service days, Dr. Dyer fought bubonic plague in Louisiana and Texas, pellagra in South Carolina, and World War I's influenza in Massachusetts. He standardized scarlet fever toxin and antitoxin, which took much of the panic out of a once-dreaded disease...
Once upon a carefree time, escapists could pick up a historical novel confident of finding a simple mixture of sword play and midnight love. Nowadays, as part of the now fashionable pedantry that corrodes everything from highbrow poetry to lowbrow science fiction, the historical novel is often as minutely researched...