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Thirty Years with G.B.S., by Blanche Patch. Shaw through the eyes of a secretary who was never "swept away" (TIME, April...
...School of Legal Medicine is trying to identify the bones of a possible murder victim found in a bramble patch near Magnolia. The investigation closely resembles one described in a recent movie, "Mystery Street," about the work of Harvard criminologists...
...Black Eyes. When his human "writing factory" was going full blast (as it always was), Shaw had not the slightest desire (he assured Miss Patch) "to talk to anyone, alive or dead." His devoted staff rallied around his dedicated way of life without hope of an appreciative word ("he took one's work for granted"). He was the last man to think of raising wages, in part, says Chronicler Patch, because he was much too absorbed in writing about economics to notice anything so obvious as rising living costs. Illness, whether his own or others', was ignored...
...then, did people say, as did Shaw's chauffeur, "I would do anything for Mr. Shaw"? For one thing, Shaw at home was the most placid and modest of men. In 30 years, Miss Patch only saw him lose his temper twice. He seldom "contradicted any of us," and "of malice he was utterly incapable ... He could be kind," sums up the author in the most devastating remark of her book, "when he remembered you were there...
...when an idea became involved with the figures, Shaw's acumen (and scruples) deserted him instantly. When he became convinced, as he did in his last years, that he was becoming penniless, he quickly "proved" that he paid the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 he earned. When Miss Patch demolished his calculations, he retorted brusquely: "I am sticking to my figure of ?147 as the easiest to remember...