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Still spry at 74, Labrador Doctor Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell sailed again last week for the desolate spot of rock (population 4,264) which he has nursed, fed, guided for half a century...
...everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls of it which we threw into...
...suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...
After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor on him when he died...
Last week, after the N. N. B. A. convention adjourned, Major Wright went to the White Rock Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, but not to pray. There, in place of the traditional banquet, the delegates joined him for an old-fashioned ice cream social...