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Born and raised in the Missouri River town of Boonville (pop. 6,000), Charlie Van Ravenswaay had had a passion for frontier history since boyhood. If present-day youngsters didn't see things that way, he thought it was partly the fault of the museum. Jefferson had a whole wing full of frontier treasures (as well as a somewhat more popular permanent exhibit of the trophies of Charles A. Lindbergh). But there they were, locked away in glass cases or, if in open displays, with "Do Not Touch" signs all over them. Last year Van Ravenswaay got his long...
...Wine of Etna's hero, hulking, hamhanded Sergeant Craddock, the order to move back into battle was heartbreaking. With war-widowed Graziella, he had discovered a passion which his own wife back in England had denied him. But Graziella got nowhere when she pleaded with him to desert and stay with her. Sergeant Craddock loved honor more. Said he: "I am a soldier. You have known that all the time...
...Office Regulations, Diplomat Maclean found the loophole he was looking for: an inexorable rule that any civil servant who participated in politics would have to resign. Hurrying around to his chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan (for the last four years Britain's delegate to U.N.), Maclean declared a sudden passion for political controversy. "In that case," replied Sir Alexander with icy brevity, "you will have to leave the Service...
Copey knew good writing. He respected it. It was the passion of his life. Furthermore, student after student over many, many years left his classroom sharing both that passion and that respect. Though the title pages of books written by his former pupils may not mention his name, countless American writers could claim Copey as a collaborator...
...Smith left the U.S. to settle in England with a lump inheritance and a passion for foraging fine phrases from great writers who had created more than mere phrases. He would occasionally turn out such little books as Trivia and More Trivia, in which he rubbed his language to a fine sheen and tried to distill the essence of his new-found cultivation into concise paragraphs. Smith's lapidary phrases were admired by such tweedy literary folk as Christopher Morley, but, reread today, they seem rather cold and feeble...