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one of the Roman emperors remarked, 'The corpse of an enemy always smellssweet!"' 10 A little later, Napoleon may have had a changeof heart. \il7henthe French defeatedthe Russians at Borodino, their losses were almost as great as those of the Russians.Napoleon considered Borodino the most terrible battle he had ever fought. On the following day he and his aides rode over the battlefield in silence, reckoning up the dead. They came g a cry of acrossa prostrate body and, hearin pain, Napoleon ordereda stretcher."lt's only a Russian,sire," said one of his aides.Napoleon retorted, "Af ter avictory there are no enemies, only men." Larcr sdll all trace of compassion- even n for his own - was gone. After the French victory at Eylau over the combined Russianand Prussianforces, Napoleon walked across the battlefield, turning over with his foot the corpses of French soldiers. "Small change, small change,"he said."One Parisiannight will soon adjust theselosses." 12 After the Russian debacle Napoleoh, fearing his position at home was precarious, left the French army in the lurch and hurried back to Francealmost unaccompanied.Arriving at the banks of the river Neman in his miserable sleigh, he inquired of the ferryman had come through that whether many deserters way. "Nor" replied the Russian,"you are the first.tt 13 \7hen Napoleon made his triumphant return from Elba in March 1815, the restored Bourbon king, Louis XVIII, fled, leavinga large sum of money with the banker Jacques Laffitte. An official, thinking to curry favor with the emperor, informed Napoleon of the existence of the deposit. Napoleon, however, had it transferred to England, where Louis could to it. After Waterloo, when Napohaveaccess leon himself was about to flee Paris,he made arrangementswith Laffitte to leave a similarly large amount of money on deposit. When Laffitte sat down at his desk to write out a receipt for the deposit, Napoleon stopped him: "lf I am captured and the receipt is found on me it will compromise you." And he absolutely refused to accept one.

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{lt is pleasingto note that Louis XVIII on his second restoration reciprocated Napoleon's honorable behavior over the money left with Laffitte and did nor take the opportunity to appropriate it.)

14 The deathof Napoleon on S!"Helena was announced in a crowdedPariS salonattended by rilTellington and Talleyrand, amongothers. In the hushthat "followed the announcement, "What an event!" someone exglatined "lt is;no{onger an event!"broke in the voice "lt is only a pieceof news." of Tat[eyrand. Ar, q8 NAPOLEON III (1808-73), emperor of France(1552-70).A nephewof NapoleonI, Napoleonwon the presidential election following the 1848 reuolution that ouerthrew the he dissolued BourbonLouis Philippe.In 1.851, and a year later proassembly the legislatiue doclaimedhimselfemperor.His rule fostered prosperity, diplomatic but hisdisastrous mestic to theFrancoabroadledeuentually aduentures War (1870-71). Prussian
I The emperor was once implored by alady to forbid all smoking on the grounds that it was a great vice. Laying aside his cigar, he replied, "This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue." 2 For years Napoleon suffered agoniesfromf stonesin the bladder. The pain undermined his! health and prematurely agedhim. Before giving[ a public audience,he was seenonce to hold his{ arm againstthe flame of a candle in an attemptf to find some relief through a change of pain. I 3 The battle of Solferino in 1859 was technically a French victory, as the Austrian forces retreated.There was appalling carnageon both sides, and Napoleon, alarmed by unrest at home, made peacethree weeks later. "I don't care for warr" he remarked at the time. "There's far too much luck in it for my liking." Aro 4E Eugdne Louis Jean Joseph NAPOLEON, (1855-79), French pretender to the imperial throne, known as the"Prince Imperial." Onthe

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' plry*right Lambert Thiboust. Though the ' iivals met occasionallyon the stairs of Anna's ' house, neither of them was inclined to make a , fuss. "To be dishonored by t prince is some'thing of an honor," said Thiboust. Plon-Plon ;waslikewisephilosophical:"To be deceivedby ia man of brains is no seriousmisfortune."

deathof his father,NapoleonIII, he wasproHe claimedNapoleonIV by the Bonapartists. madeno attemptto regainthe throne.He was with a British forceagainst killed while senting the Zulus in SoutbAfrica.
I On a holid ay at Biarritz, when the Prince Imperial was little more than a toddler, he seemedafratdto enter the sea,so he waspicked up and hurled in bodily. He struggledout and ran awayas fast as he could, howling in terror. atHe was caught and soothed, and then an 'Why, tempt was made to rationalize his fears. he was asked,was he afraid of the seawhen he had stood by while soldiersfired off their cannon and had not been frightened?The child thought this one over for a moment, then said, "BecauseI'm in command of the soldiers,but I'm not in command of the sea." 2 Brought up to believe that no Bonaparte evershowed pain or fear, the young Prince Imperial flinched under the hands of a doctor carrying out some trifling operation. "Did I hurt you?" the man asked. "No, but you startled mer" he replied. 3 The young Prince Imperial askedhis father to explain the differencebetween an accident and a misfortune. Napoleon III replied, "lf your cousin Plon-Plon [once designated heir to the emperor] were to fall into a well, that would be an accident;if someonepulled him out, that would be a misfortune." to be the Gallic equivalentof {This seems Disraeli'sjest about Gladstone:seeBrNJAMIN DlsnRru 7. For more about the haplessPlon-Plon, see the following biography and anecdote.) 4., q8 NAPOLEON, Joseph Charles Paul, Prince (L822=9I), Bonapartist heir to the French throne. He wls first designatedheir to Napoleon III in 1851, in cAsethe latter should die without issue.On the death of the Prince Imperial, Napoleon III's son, in L879, he again becAme heir to the Napoleonic succession.His family and close associatescalled him "PlonPlon," a nickname possibly basedon his childish attempts to pronounce his name. I The courtesan Anna Deslion at one time shared her favors between Plon-Plon and the

As' '4 Span800-58), Maria(1 NARVAEZ, Ram6n

ish general and statesmAn, prime minister (1844-47, 1.855-57 , 1854-65, 1855-58).

I t A priestaskedthe dying Nawaez,"Does forgiveall your enemies?" I your Excellency re\ "l do not haveto forgivemy enemies," "l have had all shot." z. them Narvie torted I A$' at (1902-71), USwriterof humorNASH, Ogden ousuerse. He produced ouertwentyuolumes of uerse,some fo, children. They include Hard and The BadParents' Lines(1921) Garden of (1935). Verse I Radio director Tom Carlson'sdog had chewedup an autographed copy of one of Nash'sworks. Though the book was out of print, Carlson finallymanaged to acquire a replacement. He sentit to Nash,explaining what had happened and askingfor anotherauto- with the dedgraph. The book wasreturned ication: "To Tom Carlson or his dogdepending on whosetasteit bestsuits." As' 'ti NASSER, GamalAbdel (1918-70), Egyptian soldierand statesmAn. A leader of thecoupthat prime deposed KingFaroukin 1"9 52, hebecame (1954-55) (1956-70) minister andpresident of Egypt.His nationalization of theSuez Canalin 1955prouoked an unsuccessful Anglo-French attack on Egypt.
I With emotions high on the night before the coup of 19 52, one of Nasser'sassociates was close to tears. "Tonight there is no room for sentiment," said Nasser firmly. l'W. must be readyfor the unexpected."Someminuteslater, when the man had regainedhis composure,he asked Nasser, "'Why did you address me in English?" Nasser laughed. "Because Arabic," he replied, "is hardly a suitable language in which to expressthe need for calm."

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In the 1930s Guido Nazzo, an Italian tenor, sangonly once in New York. The sole review read: "Guido Nazzo: nazzoI

guido." -Willard R. Espy, AnotherAlmanacof Wordsat Play

NAST, Thomas(1840-1902), US cartoonist, born in Germany.He was particularly famous 'V7eekly. for his political cartoonsin Harper's
I Nast's greatest campaign was his war againstcorruption in New York politics during the 1870s.He pilloried the Tammany Hall ma'oBoss" Tweed writhed. chine in Harper's until "'We gotta stop them damned picturesr" Tweed told his henchmen. "l don't care so I much what the papers write about me - myl constituents can't read. But they can seel I pictures." {lt was one of "them damned pictures" that stopped Tweed. After being sentenced to jail, he escapedin 1875 and made his way to Spain.While staying in- f cognito at Vigo he was recognized from I one of Nast's caricatures,arrested,and I | returned to the United States.)

onic wArs, Nelson was appointed to a command in the Mediterrnnean. He lost the sight in bis right eyeat Calui (1794)and his right arm at Tenerife (1797). He totally crushed France's fleet in the banle of the Nile (1798). During an interlude at Naples be fell in loue with Lady Emma Hamilton, wife of the British enuoy, an affair that caused much scandal. Victorious (1801),he was createduisagain at Copenhagen connt. In 1805, after an eighteen-monthblockade of Toulon, the French fleet broke through and were pursued by Nelson. At the ensuing banle of Trafalgar, in which the British were uictoriotts, Nelson was mortally wounded. I Shortly after the loss of his right arm, Nelson waspresentedto King GeorgeIII, who congratulated him upon his naval victories, then added prophetically, "But your country has a claim for a bit more of you." 2 \fhen he tried to obtain compensationfor his lost ey, Nelson was told that no money could be paid without a surgeon'scertificate. Annoyed by this petty bureau$acy) since his wounds were well known, Nelson nevertheless ary documentation. As a obtained the necess precaution,he askedthe surgeonto make out a second certificateattestingto the obvious loss of his arm. He presentedthe eye certificateto the clerk, who paid out the appropriate sum, of the amount. commenting on the smallness "Oh, this is only for an eyr" saidNelson. "In a few daysI'll come back for an arm, and probably, in a little longer, for a leg." Later that week he returned to the office and solemnly handed over the second certificate. 3 After pursuing the French fleet around the Mediterraneanfor someweeks,Nelson caught up with it at Alexandria. As preparations were made for the battle, Nelson sat down for dinner with his officers."Before this time tomorrow I shall havegaineda peerage, or'Sfestminster Abbey," he said to them as they went out to their various stations. {On this occasion- the battle of the Nile - it was the peerage.) 4 In the middle of the battle of Copenhagen, after the Danish bombardment had continued unabated for three hours, Nelson's commander,Sir Hyde Parker,sent him the signalto "discontinue action." Clapping his telescope

A.' 48 (1739-94),Swiss society NECKER, Suzanne minister Necker,finance leader; wife of ] acques to Louis XVI, and mother of Mme de Stuel. Curchod,shewascourtedin her Born Suzanne youth by the historianEdward Gibbon.
I The Marquis de Chastellux was once invited to one of Mme Necker's dinner parties. Having arrived early, he was left alone in the drawing-room where he found a notebook under Mme Necker's chair. Idly leafing he discoveredthat the book through the pages, contained detailed notes for the dinner-table conversation that evening. He carefully replaced it under the chair and later, during the course of the meal, was amusedto hear Mme Necker recite word for word everything she had written down in her notebook.

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board'; and he desiredthat he might be buried by his parents,unlessit should pleasethe king to order otherwise. Then reverting to private 'Take careof my dear Lady Hamiltotr, feelings: Hardy; take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss ffi, Hardy.' Hardy knelt down and kissed 'Now I am satishis cheek; and Nelson said, fied. Thank God, I havedone my duty.' Hardy for a moment or two, stood over him in silence ''Sfho then knelt againand kissedhis forehead. is that?' said Nelson; and being informed, he 'God bless you, Hardy.' And Hardy replied, then left him - for ever." As, qt NERO (no 37-no 58), Roman emperor (eo his uncleand adop54-eo 6S).Nero sLtcceeded tiue father, Claudius, by excluding and then killing his cousin Britannicus. His mother, Agrippina, and his wife, Octauia, were among subsequentuictims of his crazy tyranny. The conspiracy (55) against him first large-scale failed, but in 68 the reuolt of military commanders caused Nerr> to flee from Rome and ! commit suicide. I Agrippina was determinedto securethe imperial throne for her son despite Claudius's plansto nameBritannicusas his successor. She therefore fed the elderly emperor poisonous mushrooms, and he died in agony, without havemade plain his wishesconcerningthe succession. Nero ascended the throne, gaveClaudius a splendid funeral, and later deified him. He remarkedthat mushroomswere indeedthe food of the gods,because by eatingthem Claudius had becomedivine. {Imperial Rome's intricaciesare famous. For Agrippina sinned againstinstead of sinning,seethe anecdotes at her name.) 2 (Suetonius tells the story of the burning of Rome.) "Pretendingto be disgusted by the drab old buildings and narrow, winding streets of Rome, he brazenly set fire to the City; and though a group of ex-consuls caught his attendants, armed with oakum and blazing torches, trespassingon their property, they darednot interfere.He alsocovetedthe sitesof severalgranaries,solidly built in stone, near the Golden House [Nero's palace]; having knocked down their walls with siege-engines, This terror lastedfor he set the interiors ablaze.

to his blind eye,Nelson saidthat he did not see the signal. When the officers around him in"l have sistedlt was there,he merelyreiterated, only one eye- I have a right to be blind - I really do not seethe signal!" sometimes have pointed out that historians {Naval this was simply a pieceof pantomime' as Sir Hyde Parker had sent Nelson a pribeforehand, saying that if vate message hoisted,he was to use were signal such a his own discretionasto whether to obey it. This does not in any way detract from Nelson's courageand accurateappraisal of the situation, which led to a splendid victory.) 5 Sir William Hamilton, husbandof Nelson's perfect generosity toEmma, behaved with 'When he died at an adward his wife's lover. vanced age in 1803, he breathed his last in Emma'sarms,holding Nelson by the hand.He done left Nelson a favoriteportrait of E,rnma, in enamel,and the codicil containingthe bequest endedwith the words: "God blesshim, and shame fall on those who do not say' Amen." 6 Before the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson on board HMS Victory discussedtheir chances with Thomas Masterman Hardy, his captain. Hardy said that, all things considered, he would think the capture of fourteen ships a glorious outcome. "l shallnot be satisfied with anything lessthan twenty," replied Nelson. He then ordered the sending of his last signal: ..ENGLAND EXPECTSEVERY MAN \TILL DO HIS DUTY.'' {This is the wording in Southey's Life of Nelson; the words are often quoted in the form: "EI{GLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY." The final outcome of the battle was another triumph of Nelson's judgment: the English fleet took twenty French vessels captive.) 7 (Mortally wounded, Nelson lingered for hours in fearful agony,but knew before several he died that the English had gained a magnificent victory. Robert Southey reports his final moments, after he had given his last orders concerningthe fleet.) "Presently, calling Hardy back, he said to 'Don't throw me overhim in a low voice,

425 six days and seven nights,causing manypeople to take shelter in the tombs. . . . Nero watchedthe conflagration from the Tower of Maecenas, enraptured by what he called'rhe beautyof the flames'; then put on his tragedian'scostume andsang TheFallof Ilium from beginning to end." "fiddlingwhileRome {Hencethe phrase burns." Modern historiansexonerate Nero for startingthis catastrophic blaze; he himselfthought the Christians were - after all, the most likely incendiaries they believed that the end of the world would come with fire- and he persecutedthemwith much cruelty.) hard from Romewith his enemies 3 Fleeing Nero took refugein a villa a few on his heels, milesout of the city. The four faithful servants him insisted that heshouldcomwho attended ratherthan fall into the mit suicide honorably, powerin Rome. hands who hadseized of those of his own with the greatness Still obsessed gifts as an actor, poet, and singer, Nero pyreand hisfuneral watched themenpreparing as he watched muttered through his tears, "Qualis artifex pereo!" (How great an artist dieshere!) Ar, 4t poet, de(1808-55),French NERVAL, Gdrard translator,and playwright. His early works reputation.His later gainedbim a considerable by *ysticism and the writings wereinfluenced all his life from boutsof insanoccult.Suffering himself. ity, he finolly hanged of 1 Grardde Nervalwalkedin the gardens leading a lobsteron a in Paris, the Palais-Royal paleblue ribbon.Askedwhy he did so, he relobsters to dogsor cats plied that he preferred because they could not bark at one, and beof the sea. sides, theyknew the secrets this,perhaps the {James Joycementions most famousof Nerval'seccentricities, in Stephen Hero.) 2 For sometime Gerardde Nerval had carried aroundwith him an old apronstringthat, garter hemaintained, of Sheba's wastheQueen - or a corset-string belongingto Mme de Maintenon or Margueritede Valois. In the small hours of the morning of January 26, 1855,he knockedon the door of a dosshouse

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in a poor quarter of Paris.The conciergeheard the knock but decided it was too cold ro open up. \(/hen daylight dawned, the poer was discovered hanged from some iron railings with the Queen of Sheba's garter.As a final macabre touch, a pet ravenwas hovering neatby, repeating the only words it knew: "l'ai soif!" (l'm thirsty!) A$ e8 NESBIT, Evelyn (1884-1957),US model and showgirl. I In 1905 Evelyn Nesbit married millionaire Harry K. Thaw. The following year the couple were dining in a smart restaurant when Harry Thaw noticed his wife's former lover, architect Stanford White, at a nearby table. He walked over, pulled out a gun, and shot his rival three times in the face. Evelyn Thaw's reaction was memorable: "My, you are in a fix, Harry!" \,il(/tr{Thaw was later judged insane.See soN MlzNnn 10 for one reaction to I(rhite's death.) Ar, 116 NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1,642-L727), English physicist and mathematician. He discouered the law of grauitation and went on to formulate the laws of motion that underlie classical mechanics. He became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (1659), and in this field his maior contribution u)As the discouery of tbe calculus (an honor contestedby l*ibniz). The reflecting telescope was a product of his work on optics. His most important publications were Principia mathematica (1685-87) and Optics (1704). I In an eighteen-monthperiod during 1565 to L666 the plague forced Newton to leave Cambridge and live in his mother's house at \Toolsthorpe in Lincolnshire (a house that can still be seenand is preserved asa museum).One d^y he was sitting in the orchard there, pondering the question of the forces that keep the moon in its orbit, when the fall of an apple led him to wonder whether the force that pulled the apple toward the earth might be the same kind of force that held the moon in orbit round the earth. This train of thought led him eventually to the law of gravitaticn and its application to the motion of the heavenlybodies. {Voltaire, who heard the anecdote from

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visited one d^y by Fellow of the Royal Society " of London, to whom she related the strange behavior of "the poor cnzy gentleman" next door. "Every morningr" she said, "when the sun shines so brightly that we are obliged to draw the window-blinds, he takes his seat in and occupieshimfront of a tub of soap-suds self for hours blowing bubblesthrough a common clay pipe and intently watchesthem until they burst." Following his hostessto the windcrw, the visitor saw Newton at his work. Turning to the widow, he said, "The person to be a poor lunatic is none other you suppose ihan t[i great Sir IsaacNewton, studying the refraction of light upon thin plates- a phenomenon which is beautifully exhibited upon the surfaceof common soap bubbles." 7 "What is your opinion of the immortality \ of the soul?"askedan Italian lady of Newton. I "Madam, I am an experimentalphilosopher," f Newton answered. I S Newton, Cambridge University's repre-i was not welll I sentativeto Parliamentin 1.589, Only oni parliamentarian. a life as to adapted I I one occasion did he rise to his feet, and thel I Houre of Commons hushedin expectationof I f hearing the greatman's maiden speech.New- | I ton observed that there was a window op.tt, I ' asked that it be li i which was causing a draft, \closed, and sat doiln. 9 One eveningduring the Anglo-Dutch wars Newton came into the hall at Trinity College, Cambridge, announcing to the Fellows that there had been a naval battle that d"y between the Dutch and the English,and that the English had got the worst of it. As Cambridgeis a considerabledistancefrom the seaand asit was the first the Fellows had heard of any battle, they were naturally skeptical; they asked him how he knew. Newton explained that he had been in his observatory and heard a great firing of cannon, such as could only be between two great fleets.The noise had become louder and that the English ships louder, which suggested were retreating towaid the English coast. The following day a full report of the battle exactly bore out Newton's summary. 10 In 1696JeanBernoulliand G.]W. Leibni{ concocted two teasingproblems they sent toi the leading mathematiciansin Europe. Afterl

Mrs. Conduitt, and Newton's stepniece the antiquarian William Stukeley are early sourcesfor this story. If not wholly apocryphal,it is probably an embroidery of the truth. It is certainly a fact that during his stay at Woolsthorpe Newton achievedthe insightsthat led to his greatest scientificwork.) 2 Newton owned a pet dog called Diamond, which one d^y knocked over the candleon the scientist's desk and started a blaze that deNewstroyed records of many years'research. ton, viewing the destruction, said onlyr:-"O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the damagethou hast done." 3 A woman, hearing that Newton was a famous astrologer, visited him to ask him to find out where she had lost her pursesomewhere between London Bridge and Shooters' Hill, she thought. Newton merely shook his head.But the woman was persistent, making as many as fourteen visits. Finally, to get rid of her, Newton donned an eccentric costume, chalked a circle around himself, and intoned, "Abracadabra! Go to the fagade of Greenwich Hospital, third window on the south side. On the lawn in front of it I see a dwarfishdevil bending over your purse." Away went the woman - and according to the story, that is where she actually found it. {This story is probably apocryphal,but it neatly illustrates the popular reputation of scientistsin the seventeenth-century mind.) 4 An admirer asked Newton how he had come to make discoveriesin astronomy that went far beyond anything achievedby anyone before him. "By alwaysthinking about them," replied Newton simply. 5 Newton cut a hole in the bottom of an outside door to enable his beloved cat to go freely in and out of the house. When it had kittens, Newton cut a small hole next to the original one. {Probably a traditional ioke, foisted on Newton.) 6 Newton once lived next door to a rather inquisitive widow, who was unaware of her neighbor's identity and renown. The lady was

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the problems had beenin circulation for about six months, a friend communicated them to Newton, who, when he had finished his day's work at the Mint, camehome and solvedboth. The next d^y he submitted his solutions to rhe Royal Societyanonymously,as he did not like to be distracted from the business of the Mint by embroilment in scientific discussions. The anonymity did not, however, deceive Bernoulli. "l recognize the lion by his paw!" he exclaimed. 11 Newton invited a friend to dinner but then forgot the engagement.\ilfhen the friend arrived, h. found the scientistdeep in meditation, so he sat down quietly and waited. In due course dinner was brought up - for one. Newton continued to be abstracted. The friend drew up a chair and, without disturbing his host, consumed the dinner. After he had finished, Newton came out of his reverie, t looked with some bewilderment at the empty dishes,and said, "If it weren't for the proof before my eyes,I could have sworn that I have { yet dined." l; :o,
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lars,"saidOnassis. Niarchos paid up andtook the portrait home,whereit was immediately consigned to the backof a closet. A.' QB NICHOLAS I (1796-1855), czar of Russia (1825-55). Hauingcrushed theDecembrist uprising,N icholasruledautocraticalb,extending poiilce mililary disciplineand a secret networfr throughoutthe state.His ambitionsin the BalkansembroiledRussia in the CrimeanWar. I One of the Decembrist conspirators condemnedto be hanged was KondratyRyleyev. Theropebroke.Ryleyev, andbattered, bruised fell to the ground,got up, and said,"In Russia they do not know how to do anythingproperly,not evenhow to makea rope." Ordinarily in a pardon,so an accident of thissortresulted to a messenger was sentto the \Tinter Palace Nicholas asked, know the czar'spleasure. "'What did he say?" "Sire,he saidthat in Russia theydo not even know how to makea rope properly." "'Well,let the contrarybe provedr"saidthe czar. Ar, '.8 NICKLAUS, Jack William (1940- ), US golfer.Between 1959and 1981he won the US amateurcbampionship(twice), the US Open (four times),the British Open (threetimes),the ciation champiGolfers'Asso US Professional (fiuetimes), and theMasters onship(fiuetimes), than thus winning more maior championships any otlter player. 1 Nicklaus dethronedArnold Palmeras the reigningking of golf when he camefrom five strokes backto tie afterT}holesin the l,962U5 playoffnext Open,and then won the 18-hole d"y. Palmernoted, "Now that the big bear's out of the cage, everybodybetter run for cover."Nicklaus's comment was:"I'm hungry asa bear.But I'm gonnaslim down and go for thegold." Slimmed knownas down,hebecame "the GoldenBear." 4., 48 (1890-1950), NIJINSKY, Vaslav balRussian Iet dancerand choreographer. Joining Diaghileu's BalletsRzssesin Paris (1909), Niiinsky quickly createda legendaryreputation as a in suchballetsasLeSpectre dancer de la Rose.

12 To theveryendof hislife Newton'sscienAccordingto tific curiositywas unquenched. last improbable) one authorityhis (somewhat wordswere:"l do not know what I mayappear I seem to have been to theworld.But to myself, divertonly like a boy playingon the seashore, ing myselfin now and then findinga smoother whilst pebbleor a prettiershellthan ordinary, the greatoceanof truth lay all undiscovered beforeme." &.' 48 (1909- ), Greek shipNIARCHOS, Stavros Pingmagnate.
I Niarchos had commissionedSalvadorDali to paint his portrait for a fee of $15,000. Growing restlessduring the first sitting, he left as soon as the face was sketched in and told Dali to finish the picture without him. Dali promptly painted in a naked body and raised the fee to $25,000. Undeterred by Niarchos's refusal to pay, he doubled the price and sold the painting to Aristotle Onassis,his client's greatestrival. Lunching with Onassis, Niarchos found the picture displayed on the diningroom wall. "All right, how much do you want?" he sighed."seventy-fivethousand dol-

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presentgot down on their kneesto searchfor 'We must find every one of them,' the pearls. 'These are the expensive von Karaian said. pearlsthat Miss Nilsson buyswith her high fees 'Nor' Miss Nilsson refrom the Metropolitan.' 'These are just imitation ones, which I plied, buy with my low fees from the Vienna
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ln 1919 his careerwas brought to a premature end by mental illness. | \7hen Nijinsky choreographedLe Sacredu Printemps (The Rite of Spring) to Stravinsky's music, most critics loathed the ballet as a disturbing departure from the themes and conventions of the classicaldance to which they were accustomed.In fact, one early critic gave it a title that quickly caught on: Le Massacredu Printemps. 2 Niiinsky and Diaghilev,lunching with Lady Juliet Duff, one of their influential admirers in London, were askedto signher birthday book. After his signatureDiaghilevwroter"L'Ami des dieux" (The friend of the gods).Nijinsky, more modestly and flatteringly, wrote, "Le Spectrea Ia rose" (The Spectreto the rose). Ao, q8 NILSSON, Birgit Marta (1918- ), Swedish soprano celebratedfor her Wagnerian interpretations. | (Miss Nilsson appearedin Turandol with the tenor Franco Corelli on a Metropolitan Opera tour under the managementof Rudolf Bing.) "Mr. Corelli, after having been thoroughly 'ln questa outshouted in reggia,' immediately left the stage(he had no more to sing, but he y"r supposedto be there),sulked in his dressing room, and declaredthat he would not come out again.At this point, Rudolf Bing is said to have entered the dressingroom with an idea wonderfully calculatedto appealto the tenor's 'ln amour propre. Americd, d man cannot retreat before a womdrr' Mr. Bing is reported to , have said. 'Continue! And in the last act,when rhe time comes to kiss her, bite her instead.' Mr. Corelli is said to have followed instruc: tions, and Mr. Bing, accordingto the story, fled , to New York, where Miss Nilsson telephoned 'I him, saying, cannot go on to Cleveland.I have " rabies.t 2 "Once she was negotiatinga contract with Herbert von Karajan,at the time director of the Vienna Opera, when a string of pearlsshe was wearing broke and scatteredall over the floor. Von Karajan and several others who were

{3 Sir Rudolf Bing, who had often engaged 'Miss Nilsson,was askedif the starwas diffi"You put enough cult."Not at allr"hereplied. out." soundcomes in andglorious ;money 4 Asked what was neededfor a successful Isolde,Miss Nilsson replied,"Comfortable
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5 As tickets for a New York concert by Birgit Nilsson were sold out many weeks in advance, the organizers cabledMiss Nilsson to ask if she would object to their selling some extra seats on the podium. She replied by return: "Sell everything, and pleasedon't forget the space on the piano lid." As, e8 David (1909-83), British mouie NIVEN, actor. A debonair and polished perfolmer, he made more than eighty mouies, including The Prisonerof Zenda (1937),The Guns of Navarone (1951),and PaperTiger (1975). His autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1972), wAs also extremely successful. I At the Academy Awards presentationsin April 1,974,the proceedingswere interrupted by a streaker who dashed across the stage where Niven and other celebritieswere sitting. 'Just think," said Niven, "probably the only laugh that man will everget is for stripping and showing his shortcomings." !2 Niven found it hard to come to termswith and, in later life, still thought Jhe agingprocess pf himselfasa young man. He recalleda visit to London boat rf,o* with an attractive girl ,fott. jmany yearshis junior. "suddenly this hideous ;couple hove into view; a foul old creaturewith 1acrone of a wife. To my horror, the man came I over and introduced himself. 'Good heavens, 'l Niven,' he said, haven't seenyou sinceyou

429 were at school.'\Ufhen they'd gone, I could ' sense that the girl was looking at me warily. ''Were you really at school with him?' she asked.iAbsoluteiy,'I told her. 'He was rhe, musicmaster."' i 4t Ary NIVERNAIS, LouisJulesMancini Mazarin, Duc de(1716-98),French soldier anddiplomat. He wasambassador to Rome(1748-52), Berlin (1755), and London(1752-53). I The widowedDuc de Nivernais wasin the habitof calling on theComtesse deRochefort, alsoa widow, everymorningwithout fail. The visitsdid not escape regularity of these the nowho suggested to the tice of the duke'sfriends, for him to widowerthat it would befar simpler repliedthe marrythe lady,"Oh, yes,certainlyr" duke, "but where would I then spend my evenings?" Ar, '.8 NIXON, RichardMilhous(1913- ), USpolitician; 37th president of the United States (1969-74).Elected in 1945,hewas to Congress underEisenhower uicepresident from 1953to electionof 1951.Defeatedin the presidential gouernor of and in the 1952 contest 1,960 for a political comeback California, Nixon staged As presidenthe established in the mid-1.960s. the United States diplomaticrelationsbetween USmilitary parand Chinaand in 1.973 ended the ticipationin theV ietnamconflict.Howeuer, plain tbat when it became nation was shocked denials,wAs inNixon, despitehis strenuous in tbe couerup of the notoriousbreak-in uolued in the Watergate at Democratic headquarters apartment complex. He wAs forced to resign His successor, under threat of impeachment. grantedhim a freepardon. GeraldFord, at once I The first maiorattackon Nixon's integrity camein 1952 when there were someunexplainedcontributionsfrom wealthyCalifornia businessmen to a fund uponwhich Nixon had apparently beendrawingfor his own use.Eisenhower wantedto drop Nixon ashisrunning mateon the Republican ticket,but Nixon appeared on television to defendhimselfin what knownastheCheckers became speech. Having dwelt at lengthon his humbleoriginsand his advancement in life through his own efforts,

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NORBURY, JohnToler, 1stEarl of (1745of theCourtof chiefjustice l), Irish lawyer; 183 A staunch in lreland(180A-27). Pleas Common and lreland of the union of England supporter Norbury was ascendancy, andof theProtestant frequently accusedof partiality against tbe He wasmuchdisliked Roman Catholics. for his although on thebench, and buffoonery snrcasm to hauebeeniust and in priuatelife he seems kindly.
I Norbury was riding with another Irish lawyer, John Parsons,in Parson'scarriage.Their t route took them pasta gibbetwith a corpsestill hangingon it. The melancholysight prompted if we all Lord Norbury to remark,"Ah, Parson, had our deserts, where would you be?" "Alone in my carriage,"was the response. {2 A Dublin attorney having died in poverty, fhis legalcolleagues set up a subscriptionto pay ifor his funeral. Lord Norbury was asked to rcontribute.On inquiring whai sum would be iappropriate,he was told that no one elsehad subscribedmore than a shilling. "A shilling!" exclaimedthe judge, reachinginto his pocket. '"A shilling to bury an attorney?Why, here'sa j guinea! Bury one and twenty of the scoundrels." {slight variants of this story, involving other personages, abound. SeeAlEx, ANDREDuue s (pere)5 .) i 3 Even as he lay dying, Lord Norbury could not resista jest.Realizing that his end was imminent, he sent his valet around to another aged peer who was also on his deathbed. 'James," he said,"presentmy complimentsto Lord Erne and tell him it will be a dead heat betweenus." A-'' 'z'$ NORDEN, Denis (1922- ), British broadcaster and scriptwriter. In collaboration with Frank Muir, he has written scripts for numerous comedy programs on radio and teleuision and frequently appeArson panel games. L During the course of conversation with Sir PeterScott, famous ornithologist and honorary director of the Wildfowl Trust, Norden unthinkingly let slip the casual remark, " . o . doing it that wly, you can kill two birds with one stone."

something else to say. He finally blurted out' "Do you like the work?" 6 In Parisfor the funeral of French president GeorgesPompidou in 1974, Nixon remarked: "This is a great d^y for France." 7 Signingcopies of his book Six Crises,at a local bookstore, Nixon asked each customer to what name he should addressthe inscription. One gentleman replied with a grin: "You've just met your seventhcrisis.My name \Tojechzleschki." is Stanislaus 8 "President Nixon was shaking hands and talking with membersof a crowd at an airport 'How is Smowhen a little girl shoutedto him, k.y the Bear?' referring to the famous fireg at the fighting symbol who was then residin WashingtonZoo. Nixon smiledat the girl and turned away,but she kept waving and asking her question. LJnable to make out her words, Nixon sought help from his aide-de-camp, 'Smokey SteveBull. Bull whispered, the Bear, \ilTashingtonNational Zoo.' Nixon walked over to the little girl, shook her hand and said, 'How do you do, Miss Bear?"' 9 Questionedby the British televisioninterviewer David Frost about his approvalof aplan of action that entailed such criminal ingredients as burglary and the opening of orher people'smail, Nixon replied,"'Well, when the presidentdoes it, that meansit is nor illegal." A--, q4 NOAILLES, Anna-Elisabeth, Comtesse de (1876-1933),Frenchpoet and nouelist. 1 "Anna de Noailles (asFoujita puts the finishingtouchesto his portrait of her):'But you haven't made my eyes big enough. My eyes have been compared to broad flowing rivers. And what have you done to my forehead? Make it broader and higher. I'm a poet - what do you supposeI do my thinking with? This portrait has got to be just right - it will be all anyone knows of how I look, after I'm dead. After all, my friend, one of thesedaysI will be dead.' Foujita (between clenched teeth):
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2 Sir Joseph Mawbey rose during a parliamentary sitting and roundly attacked Lord North for his part in the revolt of the American colonists. He assertedthat it was entirely due to North's mismanagement that so much blood had been spilled and so many resources war. Lord North liswasted in an unnecessary tened to the onslaughtwith his eyesshut. "Fur"he is so little thermor," continued SirJoseph, of his misdeedsthat affectedby consciousness he is even now asleep."Lord North stirred in his seat and opened his eyes."I wish to God, Mr. Speaker,I was asleep," he remarked, and closed his eyesagain. 3 After one of his frequent quarrels with his father, the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) asked Lord North to act as mediator and bring about a reconciliation. Having made the prince's peacewith GeorgeIII, Lord North reported his successto the prince, adding a little homily for the occasion: "Now, ffiy dear prince, do in future conduct yourself differently- do so for God's sake, do so for your own sake,do so for your excellentfather's sake, do so for the sake of that good-natured man Lord North, and don't oblige him againto tell your good father so many lies as that goodnatured man has been obliged to tell him this morning."
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NORTHCLIFFE, Alfred CharlesWilliam Harmsworth,Viscount (1855-1922), British newspaper publisher and politician. He foundedthe Daily Mail (1595)and the Daily Mirror (1903); in 1908 heacquired The Times.
I Northcliffe was notorious for his arbrtrary dismissalof journalists.He once singledout a certain employee and asked him if he was h"ppy in his work. "Yes, sir," replied the journalist. "Then you're dismissedr" snapped Northcliffe. "l don't want anyone here to be content on five pounds a week." Art ..'8

(1745-1831 NORTHCOTE, James ), British artist specializingin portraits and historical paintings. 1 Sitting for Northcote, the Duke of Clar-) rilTilliam IV) askedif the artist I ence(afterward North- 1 knew his brother,the PrinceRegent. cote said he did not, and the duke was sur- I prised: "Why, my brothersays heknowsyou." I "That's only his brag,"repliedNorthcote. I A.' q8 NORTON, Fletcher, lst Baron Grantley (1716-89),British lawyer. Unscrupulous and in cartoons abrasiue in manner,Norton features the many celebrated of the period concerning as "Sir Bull-Face in which he appeared cases Double-Fee." I Norton was once pleadingbefore Lord Mansfieldon the subjectof manorialrights. he madethe Duringthe courseof his speech, remark,"My lord, I canillustrate unfortunate the point in an instantin my own person;I -." Lord Mansmyself havetwo little manor5 field, pouncingwith glee upon the uninten"'We all know it, Sir tional putr, interrupted, Fletcher." Ar, ".8
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NURMI, Paavo(1 897-1973),Finnish athlete. Known as the FlyingFinn, he is iudged by many the greatest long-distancelunner of all time. I During the L 924 Olympics in Paris,Nurmi ran seven races in six days. Adrian Pavlen, former president of the IAAF and himself an Olympic long-distancerunner, recalls the day in which Nurmi won the 1,500-meterevent' minutes later won the 5,000. then seventy-five That night Pavlenand some friends were on a bus going from Colombes,the Olympic village, to a party in Paris.The distancewas about six miles. "'We looked out the window and there was Nurmi walking to Paris, even though he had competed in the 1,500 and 5,000 a few hours earlier." {In his later years Nurmi suffered from thrombosis in the brain, a heart attack, partial paralysis on his left side, and blindness in his left eye. Almost to the d^y he died he walked eight miles a day.)

she smeltin "the Honorable John's" house. maybe," was selfishness, "The odor of crushed the reply. Ar, 48 NUFFIELD, William Richard Morris, lst British car menufacViscount (1'877-1,963), He setup theMorris turer and philanthropist. part of the became carfactory,wltich euentually Leyland. group, British motor nationalized Nuffield founded Nuffield College,Oxford, and his charitable foundationhas mademany important gifts. When Lord Nuffield was planningthe . (f ' foundationof a college at Oxford, he wasinvited to dine one night at Magdalen College. Leavin g afterdinner,h. stopped to collecthis hat at the porter'slodge.It wasproduced so rapidlythat Nuffieldasked doubtfullyhow the i porter knew it was his. "l don't, my lordr" answered theporter,"but it's theoneyoucame
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-70),USnouel(1905 O'HARA, John[HenryJ ist, short-story writer, and playwrigbt. His nouels include (1934) Appointmentin Samarra and Butterfield8. He hadgreatadmirationfor the refinedmanners of tbe Iuy League.
I Pooling their money during the Spanish 'War, Civil Ernest Hemingway, JamesLardner, and Vincent Sheeanfound they had some ro spare.There followed a discussionas ro how the surplus should be spenr. Suggested Hemingway:"Let's take the bloody money and start a bloody fund to sendJohn O'Hara to Yale." {The anecdote was circulated in several versions.) 2 (Someoneonce said of O'H aru that he was master of the fancied slight.) Robert Benchley and his daughter-in-law Marjorie, catching sight of O'H ara at the restaurant "2Ir" called him over to their table. Marjorie said,'John, we'vejust beenseeing Pal ] oey agarn,and, do you know, I like it even better than I did the first time." "'What was the matter with it the first time?" said O'Hara.

Ary -8 OLDFIELD, Anne (1683-1,730), Britisb actress. I Mrs. Oldfield was a passenger on a ferry thlt appeared in imminenrdanger of capsizing. \il7hen theotherpassengers brokeinto lamentitions at what seemed to be their approaching doom,Mrs. Oldfieldrebukedthemwittr greai dignity.Theirdeaths would bemerely a marrer for privategrief,but, shereminded them,"l am a publicconcern." Ar, ..6 OLryIER, Laurence[Kerr], Baron (1,90789), Britisb actor, who madehis namein No27

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of book-burners everywhere at any time.) Ar, ..6 ONASSIS, Aristotle [Socrates] (1906-75), Greek shipping magnate. He liued on a yacht called Christina, where he entertained, among others, SirW inston Churchill and Maria Callas, the opera singer,with whom he had a long and tempestuousrelationship. In 1958 he married the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy. His empire included about one hundred companiesand a mercbant fleet of fifty-frrt ships, as well as numerous holdings in banks, shipyards, and hotels. I On the Christina Onassishad installed a) luxurious private bathroom adjoining his of-' fice. The door was a one-way mirror, whichi visitorsl enabledhim to observeunsuspecting from the privacy of the bathroom. t)Llring a businessmeeting one afternoon Onassisex- \ cused himself and went to the bathroom. Comfortably enthroned,he looked up at the door and was horrified to see his own reflection staring back at him. A workman making minor repairs to the door earlierin the d^y had replacedthe mirror the wrong way around. Ar, ..6 O'NEAL, Tatum (1963), US actress,

Cowardt Private Lives (1930) and ioined the Old Vic in 1937, where he Played many Shakespearean roles. He played in and directed the highly successful films Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1945), and Richard III (1955). Regarded as one of the world's greatest character actors, be was director of the British National Theatre Company from 1961 to 1973; part of the National Theatre has been named tbe Oliuier Theatre in his honor. He was made a life peer in 1970. 1 At the tender age of ten, Olivier gave a highly acclaimedperformance as Brutus in a school production of Julius Caesar.The actress Ellen Terry saw the play and declared: "The boy who plays Brutus ts already ^ great actor." Thesewords of praisewere relayedto the young Olivier. "Who is Ellen Terry?" he asked. 2 On a visit to Jamarcaas the guest of Noel Coward, Sir Laurence Olivier accompanied Coward to a mountaintop to see the playwright's favorite view. Looking out at the terracesof jungle sprawledbeneathhim, Olivier had but one comment:"lt looks like rows and rows of empty seats." Ar, =oB (died to 654),Muslim caliph during whose caliphate (534-544) Arah rule was extendedouer what is now Syria, Iraq, lran, and Egpt. 'Omar's | general'Amr lbn Al-as conquered Egypt in 640. In 642, when the city of Alexandria surrenderedto him, 'Amr sent to 'Omar for instructions about how to deal with its great library, which contained hundreds of thousands of texts from classicalantiquity. 'Omar replied,"lf the writings of the Greeks agreewith the Koran they are superfluous and need not be presenred; if they disagree they are pernicious,and ought not to be preserved." 'Amr therefore ordered the irreplaceable manuscripts to be usedto fuel the furnacesfor the public baths. It is said that they kept the furnacesgoing for six months. {This story, told on the authority of the thirteenth-century Syrianchurchman Bar-Hebraeus (Abulfarai), is generally 'Omar's agreedto be a fabrication,but reported reply epitomizes the rationale 'OMAR

Tatum O'Neal 1 When fourteen-year-old was making the film International V eluet, a school inspectorcame to make sure that she was not falling behind in her studies.Noting that her math was not very good, he asked whether that did not bother her. The child "Oh, oo, I'll havean acstarwas unconcerned: countant."

Ar, {t (1888-1953), US dramaO'NEILL, Eugene by his actor fatist. Broughtup in the theater in 1913turned ther,an attackof tuberculosis him toward writing plays. His first fullJength won a PuPlay,Beyondthe Horizon (1920), and Mournlitzerprize.AnnaChristi e (1922) Electra(1931)werefurthersucing Becomes theNobelPrize hewasawarded In 1935 cesses. doged for literature.lll healthand alcoholism saw the crehis later years, which nonetheless works,suchasThe ationof some of bisgreatest

435 IcemanCometh(1945) and theautobiographical Long Day'sJourneyinto Night (wrinen in but not performed 1940-41,, until 1955). I Working as a news reporter on the N found it LondonTelegraph,O'Neill sometimes difficultto deliverhis storiesin a form acceptcame back ableto hiseditor.Onecontribution with the followingnote:"This is a lovelystory,
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2 As Oppenheimer watched the first atomicf bomb explode in a test at Alamogordo, New\ Mexico, on July L6, 1945, a passage from thel Hindu scripture, the BhagauadGita, came intoi his mind: "lf the radianceof a thousand suns; were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One." Then, as the enormous mushroom cloud darkened the skyr another sentencefrom the same source came, to him: "l am become Death, the shattererof worlds." 3 After his contract with the Atomic Energy Commissionwas canceledon securitygrounds, Oppenheimer continued his work at Princeton. In April 1962 he was invited to a White House dinner by PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. Then in December L953 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Award of the Atomic Energy Commission.Accepting this sign of official forgiveness from Lyndon B. Johnson, Oppenheimer said, "I think it is just possible,Mr. President,that it may have taken some charity and some couragefor you to make this award today." Ar, 48 ORSAY, Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel, Count d' (1801 -52), French dandy, who spent many yearsin England. He and his stepmother-in'hw, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, headed one of the most glittering of London's coteriesin by debt, the 1830sand 1840suntil, encumbered they had to flee to France, where they both died. I After 1841 Count d'Orsaywas besetby fear of arrestfor debt. The curious laws of the time, however, put him in no dangerof being served with a writ or arrested between sunset and sunrise. During daylight hours, visitors to his house had to establish their identity before they were allowed in, and two masdffsprowled in the garden.Despitetheseprecautionsan enterprising bailiff, disguised as an errand boy, managed to gain admittance late one afternoon. He surprised the count in his dressing room and revealed his true identity. D'Orsay, who was halfway through his toilet, did not lose his head. He asked the officer if he might finish dressingand courteously bade him take a chair. For over an hour the man sat and watched, fascinated, oblivious to the rapidly approachingsunset.The count, however, was

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2 O'Neill alwaysstrongly obiected to cutting any of his plays. When director and playwright RusselCrouse asked him to shorten the script of Ah, Wilderness! he was very reluctant. The following day he telephoned Crouse to tell him that he had cut fifteen minutes. Surprisedand pleased,Crouse said, "I'll be right over to get the changes." "Oh, there aren't any changesto the textr" O'Neill explained, "but you know we have beenplayingthis thing in four acts.I've decided to cut out the third intermission."

Ar, -8 US OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert(1904-67), physicist, directorof thelnstitute for Aduanced New Jrsltfrom 1947to in Princeton, Studies of of the deuelopment L955.He was in charge the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, inUS helda keyposition to 1952 andfrom 1945 aboutthe hydroatomicpolicy. His misgiuings gen bomb causedhim to foll foul of a Mc(1953), andhewaslabeled witch-hunt Carthyite he deuotedhimself a security risk. Thereafter in the ethicsof science mainly to considering society. I Physicist JamesFranck was professor"f{ GottingenUniversitywhen the twenty-threefor i wasbeingexamined year-old Oppenheimer from the oral ex-i his doctorate.On emerging amination,Franck remarked,"I got out ofi i to ask//7 therejust in time.He wasbeginning questions."

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2 Seatedat dinner next to the willful Lady Holland, Count d'Orsay found her ladyship determined to monop ohze his attention; wheneverit seemedto wander, she would reclaim it by dropping something, which, of course,the count had to retrievefor her. First her napkin fell to the floor, then a spoon, then her ladyship" fan. Finally the count lost patience and turning to the footman behind his chair, told him to place his platesand cutlery on the floor. "l shallfinishmy dinner there," he announced."lt will be so much more convenient for my Lady Holland." 8s, q8 OSCAR II (1829-1,907), king of Sweden (187 2-1907) and Norutay (1872-1905). I Visiting a vill ageschool one d^y, the king asked the pupils to name the greatestkings of Sweden.The answerswere unanimous: Gustavus Vasa, GustavusAdolphus, CharlesXII. Then the teacherleanedover to one little boy and whisperedsomethingin his ear."And King Oscar," volunteered the child. "Really? And what has King Oscar done that's so remarkable?"askedthe king. "l - I - I don't know," stammeredthe unhappy child. "That's all right, my boy," said the king. "Neither do I." As, q8 O'TOOLE, Peter (1,932- ), British fil* Actor, who rose rapidly to stardom in such films as Lawrence of Arabia (1952), Becket (1954), and The Lion in Winter (1965). I As a little boy Peter O'Toole attended a school run by nuns. One d^y in a drawing class the children had been asked to draw a horse. Peter finished his and was sitting idle. A nun suggestedthat he make some additions- a saddle,maybe. The child got busy and after a time the nun returned. tilfhen she saw what he had drawn, shewent crimson and started slapping him; he had addeda penisto the horseand shown it urinating. As the nun buffeted him, the bewilderedchild protested,"But I was only drawing what I saw."

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"'Walter O'Keefe, an actor in the US in a the 1930s,was once invited to address medicalconvention.He found on arrival at the banquetthat the conventionwasin fact one of chiropodists. "O'Keefe had hardly tucked his napkin into his collar when a fanfare rang through the hall and the chiropodists leaped to attention. A spotlight roved across the heads of the multitude and picked up, on a wall bracket, Old Glory rippling in the breeze of an electric fan. After a properly patriotic salute,O'Keefe and the chiropodistsagainattacked their meal, an interval largely given over to a long, unhappy account by the chairman of his troubles in organizing the luncheon. Just as the ladyfingers and bombe glac6e were arriving a second fanfare brought everyoneup again. "The spotlight settled on the swinging doors to the kitchen where stood a chef in a tall hat and apron. He bowed, flourished to his staff inside,and a huge foot sculpturedout of ice rolled into view on a tea wagon. Amid thunderousapplause, it made a slow, majestic circuit of the tables. As it drew abreast the speaker's table, the already irascible chairman turned a rich mulberry. "'God damn itr' he snarled into 'they've O'Keefe'searr goneand dropped the metatarsal arch!"' - S.J. Perelman, "Two Years down the Drainr" in '47, The Magazine of the Year

2 As a young actor PeterO'Toole landeda bit part as a Georgian peasantin a Chekhov play. All he had to do was to come on stage,announce, "Dr. Ostroff, the horses are readyr" and exit. Determined to obtain what mileage he could out of this unpromisingrole, O'Toole conceivedof the peasantas a youthful Stalin: he made himself ,rp to look like Stalin, practiced a slight limp like Stalin's,and rehearsed his line to indicate his furious resenrmenr againsthis social betters. The first-night audiencewas duly arousedby the entry of this ominous figure.Concentratingintensely,O'Toole

437 madehis announcement: "Dr. Horsey, the osJ I troffs are ready." Ar' 4E archduke OTTO (1855-1900), of Austria,father of EmperorCharlesf. I The archduke submittedto a medical.*-i physician. Viennese amination by ^ renowned The latter made careful,exhaustive inquiries pains,and so about his patient'ssymptoffis, irritated the 1 forth. Theseinsistentquestions archdukeand he wasfrank enoughto sayso. I suggest The doctor replied,"Your Highness, He the next time you ask for a veterinarian. I g anyquestions." cures without askin 4., .8 (1839OUIDA [Marie Louisede la Ramee] 1908), British nouelist.Her pseudonymwas based on a childish mispronunciation of "Louise." The reception of her popularnouels societywas helped of military and fashionable Her by the attacksand parodiesthey euoked. was Under Two Flags most lasting success (1,857). from falsemodI Ouida,who neversuffered esty,enjoyedthe chagrinof "serious"writeis

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whose success was a fraction of her own. Once when Oscar Wilde asked her the secretof her popularity, she confided, "l am the only woman who knows how two dukes talk when they are alone." {She didn't, of course, and one of the pleasures readersfound in her novelswas spotting the ridiculous blunders she madewhen describingmasculineconversation and pursuits.The most famous of these,"All rowed fast, but none so fast as stroker" comes, however, not from one of her books but from a parody by Desmond Coke.) Ar, 45 OWEN, Robert (1771-185S) ,Welsh manufacturer and social reformer, founder in 1825of the New Harmony, Indiana, utopian community. 1 There are many heart-breaking records of i nineteenth-century child labor in the coal mines of England. The philanthropist Owen once talked to a twelve-year-old breaker boy, coal-black, weary from digging shalefrom broken coal. "Do you know God?" asked Owen. Replied the boy, "No. He must work in some other mine."

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paigning abroad fo, support fo, a free and united Poland. He became prime minister of Poland (1919), but, failing to bring about national unity, resigned. | \fhen Paderewski played before Queen Victoria, he won her enthusiastic approval. "Mr. Paderewskir"she exclaimed, "you are a genius." Paderewski, who liked to allude to the number of hours he spentpracticing everyd^y, shook his head, "Perhaps,Your Majesty, but before that I was a drudge." 2 Paderewski's enormousreputation was not taken as seriouslyby fellow pianists as by the adoring public. Moriz Rosenthalwenr to hear Paderewskiplay in London and is reported to have said after the concert, "He plays well, I suppose,but he's no Paderewski." 3 A young American srudent visiting the Beethovenmuseum in Bonn was fascinatedby the piano on which Beethovenhad composed some of his greatestworks. Sheasked the museum guard if she could play a few bars on it; she accompaniedthe requestwith a lavish tip, and the man agreed.The girl sat down ar the piano and tinkled out the opening of the-_ Moonlighf Sonata.As she was leaving, she said to the guard, "I supposeall the grear pianists who come here want to play on that piano." The guard shook his head; "tilfell, Paderewski was here a few years agoand he said he wasn't worthy to touch it." 4 Paderewskihad been asked to play for the dinner guests of a certain EngliJh duchess. Somewhat taken aback by the size of the fee demandedby the pianist, the duchessdecided not to invite him for the meal itself and wrote: "Dear Maestro, acceptmy regretsfor not inviting you to dinner. As a professionalartist you

t tr Pachmann'seccentricitieswere not confined to his own stage appearances. During a concert by Leopold Godowsky, Pachmann once rushed onto the stage saying, "No, oo, Leopold, you moost play it like so." He then gaveademonstrationto the delightedaudience as Godowsky sat by, crimson-faced. He explained that he would not have bothered for just any old player. "But Godowsky is ze zecond greatestliffing pianistr" he announced. 2 During a London recital at which he played Chopin's Minute Ylaltz Pachmannadopted a curious hunched position, crouching over the keyboard so that no one could seehis hands. Feelingthe audiencewas owed some explanation, he said,"Vy I do zis?I vill tell. I seern ze owdience mein alte freund Moriz Rosenthal, and I do not vish him ro copy my fingering." 3 One of de Pachmann'sfavorite tricks before a recital was to play about with the piano stool, adjustingand readjusringit, until the audience becamedesperate. Then he would rush into the wings to fetch a largebook, placeit on the seat,and try that. He would indicatethat all was still not satisfactory and would rear one page from the book and try it again. Finally, if the audiencewas lucky, he would begin. 4., qt PADEREWSKI, Ignace Jan (1860-1941), Polish pianist, composer, and statesman. Paderewski was renowned for the uirtuosity of his playing.WhenWorld'War I broke ottt, he dedicated himself to the senticeof his country, cam-

439 in a niceroom whereyou i will be more at ease \ can rest before the concert." Paderewski thank you \ promptly replied:"Dear Duchess, your you As for letter. so kindly inform methat I present your I not am obliged to be at dinner, I I with half of my fee." Ishallbe satisfied alsoFntrz KnptslER 2. See
' 5 Paderewskiattended the 1"91,9 Paris Peace ' Conferenceas the new premier of Poland"The '' was inFrench premier, GeorgesClemenceau, troduced to the great musician. "Are you a cousin of the famous pianist Paderewski?"he i asked mischievously."l am the famous pianist," replied Paderewski.l'And -you have become prime minister?"exclaimedClemenceau. , "'What a comedown!" 6 The pianists Moriz Rosenthal and Abram farewell Chasinsattended one of Paderewski's Long past his prime as a playe4 appearances. Piderewski turned in a dismal performance. Chasinsobsenredsadly, "The things that man has forgotten!" "'What he forgets isn't so bad," retorted Rosenthal. "It's what he remembers!" Aro 'e$ PAIGE, Leroy Robert ["Satchel"] (1904-82), US baseball player, one of the greatest of all pitchers. A prominent figrrrt in Negro baseball -in the 1920s, he later played for the Cleueland Indians (1948-51) and the St. Louis Browns. I "Paige worked briefly as a coach for the now-defunct Tulsa Oilers in 1976 and every night youngsters trooped to him for autographs. He gave them a small, white business 'Look on the back. That's where iard and said, turned over the my secretis.' The little leaguers 'Six Rules for a Paige's read Satchel card and Happy Life': 'i t''!.. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. you, lie down "'z.If your stomachdisputes and pacify it with cool thoughts. ( 33. Keep the iuices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. "'4. Go very light on vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. 66 65.Avoid running at all times. "'6. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you."' 4., 48

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"Sir tWilliam Petty, I7th-century English political economist, had a boy (that is, a young servant)that whistled incomparably well. He after wayted on a Lady, a widowe, of good fortune. Every night this boy was to whistle his Lady asleepe. At last she could hold out no longr, but bids her chamber-maydwithdraw: bids him come to bed, settshim to worke, and marries him the next d^y."

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Britisbpoliti-\ PAINE, Thomas(1737-1809), cal theoristand writer. His pamphletCommon/ (1775) in iustifyingthel wasinstrumental Sense WhenDisRightsof Man I Reuolution. Americnn (1791-92) in supportof the French\ appeared 'Reuolution,'ie andl, with treason was chargecl ', French the to He wls blected France. to fttd 'Conuention, and': imprisonedby Robespierre, Belieuingi theguillotineonly by chance. escaped him when he: had deserted that the Americans was in dangerin France,Painewrote a bitterti \i He euentually attack on itrtrol Washington. (1502), whereht ! to the UnitedStates emigrated fouid himself unpopular. He died in New \ York.
I Benjamin Franklin said to Paine, "'Where liberty is, there is my country." Paine answered, "Where liberty is not, there is mine." 2 When Paine was traveling through Baltimore, he was accosted by a Swedenborgian minister who had recognrzedhimasthe author of The Age of Reason. The deistic thesis expounded by that book had led to a large number of answersfrom divines of various persuasions, and the minister was clearly anxious to viewpoint. Having present the Swedenborgian introduced himself,he began,"I am minister of the New Jerusalem Church here, and we explain the true meaning of the Scripture. The k.y had been lost above four thousand years, but we have found it." "It must have been very rustyr" said Paine coolly. As' '"t8

PALEWSKI, Gaston (died 1984), French de Gaulle'schef de cabinet (Chief statesman,

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of Staff), once the louer of Nancy Mitford, in whose nouels he occasionally makes a lightly disguised appearance. Palewski, I Noted for his amatory enterprise, offering to drive a girl home from a party, met "Thank you, but I'm with the polite response, too tired; I think I'll walk." &rn. -q8 PALEY, William (L743'-I805), British clergyman. He wrote seueralbooks on religion, most notably Evidencesof Christianity (1794). I Appointed archdeacon of Carlisle, Paley made no secretof his feeling that his position entitled him to lord it over the lesserclergy. Feelinga draft on his back during a diocesan dinner, he summoned a footman and instructed him, "Close the window behind me and open one behind one of the curates." A'' 48

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PARK, Mungo (1771,-1805) explorer , Scottish of Africa. He described his first expeditionin Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799); on his second expedition he was drownedduring an attackby natiues. I While exploring a particularly wild anduncultivated regionof Africa,Parkunexpectedly came across a gibbet."The sightof it," helater remarked,"gave me infinite pleasure,as it provedthat I wasin a civilized socie ty." Ar, 48 PARKER, Dorothy (1893-1967), US shortstory writer, tlteatercritic, doyenneof minor light t)erse, and wit.
a book reviewer for The New Parker went on her honeymoon. Her editor, Harold Ross, began pressuring her for her belated copy. She replied, "Too fucking busy, and vice versa." | \fhile

PALMERSTON, Henry John Temple,3d Viscount (1784-1865), British statesman; prime minister (1855-58, 1859-65).He enteredParliament as a Tory, but subsequently ioined the Whigs.Tbreetimesforeignsecretary (1830-34, 1835-41, 1845-51), hewasinfluential in shapingBritain's stronglynationalistic policy in foreignaffairs. | \il7henPalmersron was a yourr,fian, the Duke of Wellingron rryde in appoinrmenr with him for half gast sevenin tlie morning. Someoneexpr-6s'6 doubt that Palmerrtoi, who keptlat,e hours, would beableto keepthe appointfrnt. "of course I shall,"he retorted. I shallkeepit the lastthing :'I+ p:lrfectlyeasy: bpforeI go ro bed."

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2 Standing with Palmersron at a military review on a particularlyhot d^y, the queen 3 A young man looking loftily around at a watcheda companyof perspiring party said, "l'm afraid I simply cannor bear volunteers doublingpasther.Their proximitycaused fools." her to put her handkerchief to her nose.Shere"How oddr" said Dorothy Parker. "Your marked to Palmerston, "Don't you think there mother could, apparently." is ratheta . . . ?" "Oh, that's what we call esprit de corps, I 4 tilTilliam Randolph Hearst lived with his ma'amr" replied. ,, movie-starmistressMarion Daviesin his spec1..
tacular castle,SanSimeon.Hollywood person, ' alities were frequent guests.Hearst always inlsisted upon the obse-rvation of certain rules. 'Despite his own irregular association with

2 At one time Dorothy Parker had a small, dingy cubbyhole of an office in the Metropolitan Opera House building in New York. As no one evercameto seeher, shebecamedepressed and lonely. I7hen the signwriter came to paint her name on the office door, she gor him ro write instead the word "GENTLEMEN."

3 A certainFrenchman, eagerto flatter the patrioticLord Palmerston, onceremarked, "If I werenot a Frenchman, I shouldwishto bean

441, Marion Davies,one of theserules was thatl thereshouldbe no love-making between unmarried couples.Dorothy Parker broke thel rule and received a note from her host asking her to leave. In the SanSimeon visitors'book lines: sheleft these Upon my honor, i I sawa Madonna in a niche Standing t 't Abovethe door Of the famouswhore i I Of a prominentson of a bitch. {ln a variantof this storyDorothy Parker for drinkSanSimeon to leave wasasked ing too much.) and years apartDorothy Parker 5 After some werereAlan Campbell, husband, her second married.At the receptionfollowing the ceremony she remarked,"People who haven't are on speaking talked to eachother for years the bride and including today again terms
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agedby the performance. The leading ladywas amply endowed.At one pgint"thb producer, sittingwith Dorothy,whfsbered, "Don't you think she ought.to'"weara brassiere in this
scene?" 1,sad"F.,,;*'^j'r

"Go-dyd'br" said Dorothy. "You've got to haveiomething in the show that moves." 12 Gossiping about an acquaintance, Dorothy Parker murmured in bogus admiration, "You know, she speaks eighteen languages. 'No' in any of them." And she can't say 13 In the hospital Dorothy Parkerwas visited to whom shewished to dictate by her secretaq/, some letters. Pressing the button marked NURSE, Dorothy observed,"That should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."

6 Dorothy Parkerand a friend were talkingI "She'sI celebrity. abouta forieful andgarrulous so outspo|.n," remarked the friend. "31 I whom?"askedDorothy. 7 Dorothy Parkerwrote a report on a yalel R prom at which the numberand beautyof ther girls presenthad obviouslymadea deep i-- , pressionon her. "If all those sweet young "l announced, lhingswerelaidendto end,"she wouldn't be at all surprised."
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herplace at the RoundTableon. [' 14 Leaving "Excuse me,I have to go tol said, d^yrDorothy then went on, "I I the bathroom."Shepaused, 1 but I'm too embarreallyhaveto telephone, rassed to sayso."
15 Coming to pay her last respectstoJcott

ashe lay in an undert Fitzgerald ?W{barlor in Dorothy Pa*dised the words Los Angeles, by the anogffius mourner at the fuspoken The Great in Fitzgerald's neral of Jayff$y bitch!" Gatsby,flIte poor son-of-a16 Dorothy Parker once attended a party with Somerset Maugham where the guests challenged each other to complete nursery rhymes. Somerset Maugham presented Mrs. Parker with the lines: "Higgledy piggledY,mY white hen/ She lays eggsfor gentlemen." Dorothy Parker added the following couplet: "You cannot persuade her with gun or Tariat/ To come acrossfor the proletariat." 17 (Lillian Hellman records an incident that took place as the body of Alan Campbell waq being-carried from the house where he had died.) "Among the friends who stood with Dottie on those California steps was Mrs. Jones, a woman who had liked Alan, pretended to like Dottie, and who had always loved all forms of meddling in other people's troubles. Mrs. 'Dottie, tell h, dear,what I can do Jonessaid, for you.'

,icultur' :i, re hortt rd ho ut ture u ure,bu rticult cultu ry )oroth' Dor sar dD
in their 10 Lookingata worn-out toot bstsaidto Dorbathroom, a fell hostess's

othy Parker,"Ylhqyrffi,o you think she"does

with that?"

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| "ln his old d1e , after he quit the wa{path' . adopted many of the Parker o Quannah white man's ways. But in one respecthe clung to the custom of his fathers.He continued to be a polygamist.He was a friend and admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and on one occasion when Roosevelt was touring Oklahoma he drove out to Parker's camp to see him. With pride Parker pointed out that he lived in a houselike a white man, his children went to a 18 Dorothy Parker once collided with Clare like white man'sschool,and he himselfdressed 'Whereupon Boothe Luce in a narrow doonvay. "Age beRoosevelt was a white man. fore beauty," said Mrs. Luce, stepping aside. moved to preachhim a sermon on the subject 'Seehere, "Pearls before swine," said Dorothy Parker, chief, why don't you set of morality. gliding through. your people a better example? A white man has {This anecdote is probably apocryphal only one wife - he's allowed only one at a but memorablenonetheless.) time. Here you arc living with five squaws. Why don't you give up four of them and remain 19 A friend was very upserat having ro get rid faithful to the fifth?' Parker stood still a mo'iHave of his cat. Dorothy Parker suggested, ment, consideringthe proposition. Then he anyou tried curiosiry?" swered, 'You are my great white father, and I 'What 20 There were two playscontaining a charac- 11 will do asyou wish on one condition.' 'You ( ir the condition?' asked Roosevelt. pick ter based on Dorothy Parker, one written by out the one I am to live with and then you go George Oppenheimer and the other by Ruth ,l ' kill the other four,' answeredParker." Gordon. Dorothy Parker grumbled that she had wanted to write her autobiographybut was As' a8 now afraid to do so. "lf I did, George OppenPARR, Samuel (1,747-1825), English author, heimer and Ruth Gordon would sue me for schoolmAster,and clergyman. Parr, greAtly odplagiarism." mired as a stylist,was closelyinuolued, on either 2l Duringher lateryears DorothyParker friendly or hostile terms, with many of the literary and political figures of his time. creasinglyfound refuge in alcohol.

'Get me new husband.' "Dottie said, a "There was a silence,but before those who would have laughed could laugh, Mrs. Jones 'I said, think that is the most callous and disgusting remark I ever heard in my life.' "Dottie turned to look at her, sighed,and 'So sorry. Then run down to the said gently, corner and get me a ham and cheese on rye and tell them to hold the mayo."'

to a sanatorium, she approv efuWroom but told the doctor sheworlffie ro go our every hour or so for a dg:ftY.T{e solemnly warnedher

that she,^lffiH;il;;;i.
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I His contemporaries valued highly Parr's talents as a composer of Latin epitaphs.Once he said to a friend, "My lord, should you die first, I mean to write your epitaph." His friend replied,"lt is a temptation to commit suicide." 2 On EasterTuesdayin 1800 Parrpreached a famous sermon before the lord mayor of London. Asked his opinion, his worship replied that he heard only four things in it that he disliked- the four quartersof the hour struck by the church clock. 3 Parr rated highly his own skill at whisr. He was correspondinglyintolerant of lack of skill in other players. One evening he was playing with a partner who committed blunder after blunder. A lady asked Parr how the game was going. "Pretty well, madamr" was the reply, "considering that I have three adversaries." &r' 48

PARKER, Henry Taylor (1867-1934), US music critic, known from his initials, H. T. P., As "Hell to PayJ' I During a symphony concert Parkerhad the misfortune to be seatednear some persistent talkers. At last he rounded on the offenders: "Those people on the stageare making such a noise I can't hear a word you're saying." As, q8 PARKER, Quannah (late 18th-early 19th centuries),North American ComancheIndian chief.

443 'Samuel Butler recalled with delightthe

reaction of the six-year-old daughter of an acquaintance of his, Edgar Paine, who, upon learningthat shehad acquired a little sister, exclaimed in her enthusiasm, "Does Mama know? Let's go and tell her."

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On the morningof March 30 the London pamphdid a brisktradein another booksellers that Bicklet, hot off the presses, announcing erstaff'sprediction had come true and Partridge had died the previous evening. It gave a detailed account of his deathbed,followed by an "El eW on the Death of Mr. Partridge." Partridge hurriedly printed and distributed a denial of his death, but by then no one believed him. Other writers joined in the fun with pamphletsurging Partridgeto abandon his perverseinsistencethat he was still alive.The Stationers' Company struck his name off their records. It was four years before Partridge recovered sufficiently from this onslaught to resume publication of his almanac,and by then "Isaac Bickerstaff" had become a household name. 2 One day Partridge,iourneying to a country town, paused to rest at an inn. As he was remounting his horse to resumehis journey, the ostler said, "If you take my advice you'll stay here, becauseif you go on you will certainly be overtaken by heavy rain." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Partridge,and away he rode. After he had ridden a short distance' he was drenched by a heavy shower. Interested in the ostler's accuracy of prediction, he returned to the inn, admitted that the man had beenquite correct, and offered him alargetip if he would divulge his secret. Pocketing the tip, the man said, "You see, we have an almanac in the house called Partridge's almanac, and the fellow is such a no- | tori6u, fiar thai whenever he promises fine] weather we can be sure it will rain. Now todayl 'settled weather, fine; no1\ he had put down rain,'so when I looked that up before I saddl.d'l yout horse I was able to put you on your L guard." {similar stories are told of other weather prophets and are no doubt equally apoc-

- GeoffreyKeynes and Brian Hill, Butler'sNotebooks eds.,Samuel - Selections

US illusPARRISH, Maxfield (1870-1'966), He also poster painter, designer. and trator, ingludiryS murals, painted outstanding seueral -one on the themeof Old King Coleat the based Hotel in New York. St. Regis rzed in painting beautiful I Parrish special to having nudes and was thus accustomed lovelyyoungmodelsin his studio.One morning, when a model arrived,Parrishsuggested
that they have a cup of coffee before gettin down to work -^ habit he had recently acquired to postpone confronting the blank The htd hardly started to drink the Canuas. coffee when the studio buzzer rang. Panic seizedthe artist. "Young ladyr" he cried, "for God's sake, take your clothes off-my wife's coming up to check on me."

Ao, 48 PARTRIDGE, John (1644-L7I5), English cobblerturnedalman1cmaker. His almanacs, equiuocaof superstition, thoughcompounded uery nonetheless were charlataflr!, and tion, ally. ssful commerci succe
1 In 1707 Jonathan Swift decided to laugh the fraudulent Partridge out of business.As "Isaac Bickerstaff" he published a spoof, Predictions for the Year 1.708."Bickerstaff" pro-fessedhis concern to rescuethe noble art of astrology fromthe hands of the quacks. In particular he would make precise predictions in place of the vaguepropheciesput-forth by the brdinary almanac makers. Thus his very first prediction: the death of John Partridge"upon at night, of a raging 29 March next, about 1'1, fever."

ryphal.)
Ary .$ (1623-52), mathema' French PASCAL, Blaise Fromhis youthon, ticianandwriter on religion. and Pascal did importantwork in mathematics physics and in 1541madethe first calculating machine.In his early thirties he undenuenta and becamea profound religiousexperience his meditations of the of ansenist. Some fruits J (L559). in hisPens6es Arecontained on religion

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I Patti's successfultour of Europe brought includher great acclaim from all opera-goers, ing royalty. "Which crowned head do you like best?" she was once asked by a critic. Patti thought for a moment. "The Czar Alexander givesthe best jewelry," she replied. A$, a8 PATTON, GeorgeS[mith],Jt. (1885-1945), US general,nicknamed "Old Blood-and-Guts." After the Normandy landings, he led tbe Allied sweep across France and into Germany at the end of World'War II . His unorthodox methods causedsome embarrassmentin military circles. I In August 1943, when Patton was commandingAmerican forcesin ltaly, he vrsrtedthe hospital at Sant'Agata. tVhile being shown around by the colonel in charg, he spieda man who did not seem to be wounded at all. He snapped at the colonel, "l want you to get that man out of bed right away.Get him back ro rhe front. I won't have these men who really are wounded seethat man babied so." When the soldier himself did not immediately respond, Patton struck him. It turned out that he was seriouslyshell-shocked. When the incident became known three months later, there was an outcry, and Patton was forced to make a public apology. 2 On August 26r'1,944, one of Patton'sunits crossedthe Seineat Melutr, ourflanking Paris. Patton sent Eisenhower a formal military report of the operation with the posrscript: "Dear Ike, Today I spat in the Seine." {A variant of this anecdote substitutes "pissed" f.or "spat.") Ar, eB PAYNE, John Howard (179L-I8SZ),US actor and playwright. His greatestsuccess was Brutus (1919). 1 Driven from the US stag. bI the jealousyo? other actors, P1fn9 led a wandering exisrence t in Europe for the latter part of his life. Penniless,without a lodging for the night, he would hear sung in the streets and played on barrel e organsa song to which he had written the lyric. It was "Home, SweetHome."
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I Pascal'sfather began his son's education with a course of reading in ancient languages. \7hen the nin e-year-oldPascalinquired as to the nature of geometry,he was told that it was the study of shapes and forms. The boy immediately proceeded to discover for himself the first thirty-two theorems of Euclid - in the correct order. The elder Pascalsaw that it was no use attempting to steer his son away from mathematicsand allowed him ro pursue his studiesas he wished. j i I {This srory comes from Pascal'ssisrer I l[ ""a borders on the apocryphal.] As, q8 PATER, Walter (1839-94),British writer and critic. His aestheticand philosophical theories, expounded notably in Marius the Epicurean (1885), were a maior impulse bebind the Aesthetic ("art for art's sake") mouement of the 1890s,for which he also set a standard in his highly wrought prose style. His Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1573)was also inon art fluential, as were numerous critical essays and poetry. I Pater taught at Oxford, where he was also a university proctor. He once askeda student, a certain Mr. Sanctu?W, to seehim after the lecture. The young man, wondering what misdemeanor he had committed, approachedpater's desk with some trepidation. Pater, however, appearedequally ill at easeand seemednor to know what to say. "You asked me to stay behind, sir?" prompted Sanctuary. "Oh, yes, Mr. Sanctu?Ar" stammered Pater. "l . . . I wanted to sayto you . . what avery beautiful name you have got." {It seems likely that this srory was a h"ppy invention by Oscar lilfilde, who first put it into circulation.) 2 Pater'slecturesat Oxford were notoriously inaudible, in fact virtually whispered. Max Beerbohm once asked \7ilde if he had heard Pater lecture and got the response:"l overheard him." 4., 48 PATTI, Adelina (1843- 1,919), Italian operatic soprano. Her coloratura singing in such rolesas Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor and Amina in La Sonnambula was famous all ouer Europe and tbe United States.

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The classic children'sbook Make Way Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyhas for a real-lifeanalogue. One of the eventsin the 1928Olympics was single-scullrowing. Henry Australia, Pearce, representing wasin the lead when a family of duckspassed in front of him singlefile. Courteously he pulledin his oars. Yes,he won. - DavidWallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Olympics

ArcPEARY, RobertEdwin(1855-1920),US tic explorer.After a numberof Arctic expedithe first he finolly became tions (1885-1905) man to reachthe North Pole(1909).He wrote in Northward overthe "Great abouthis trauels and The North Pole(1.910). Ice" (1898) Peary I A younglady had beenquestioning relating to his matters for sometime on various polar expeditions."But how does anyone the North Pole?" know when he hasreached frown. "Nothing eabwith a puzzled sheasked thepole, "One stepbeyond Peary. ier," replied a south you see, and the north wind becomes
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US educaPEABODY, Elizabeth(1804-94), tor. Shewas actiuein the New EnglandTranwrote for The Dial, mouement, scendentalist by MargaretFuller and publishedtranslations and ihreeearlyworksby NathanielHawthorne (herbrother-inJaw). ShewasthemodelforMiss The Bostonians. in HenryJames's Birdseye
I Crossing Boston Commoo, bumped into a tree. "I saw itr" "but I did not realizeit."

6r, ".6 He (I9I5PECK, Gregory ), US fil* Actor. romantic but tougb role in of the the specialized hero. with a coma crowdedrestaurant 1 Entering Peckfoundno tableavailable. Gregory panion, t'Tell them who you arer" murmured the friend."If you haveto tell themwho you are, you aren'tanybodyr"saidPeck. Ar, '.t

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Ar, 48 (1311-80), Britisb PEARD, John Whitehead the became who country squire follower and patriot Garibaldi. Giuseppe Italian of the friend He playeda prominentrolein the banleof Milazzo(1850).
I Dumas filt, also in Garibaldi's entour"Se, gavea colorful account of Peard'sfirst meeting with the Italian leader.Peardwas introduced to Garibaldi on the field of battle, during a lull. They exchanged brief preliminary greetings. Then a movement in the Austrian lines attracted Peard'sattention. "Pardon me' there's a devil of an Austrian over there who's catching my eye." So saying,he raised his gun and fired. The group around Garibaldi trained their field glasseson the obtrusive Austrian, who staggered forward a couple of paces and then pitched face downward and l"y still. Peard nodded with satisfaction, and held out his hand to Garibaldi: "Good d^yrgeneral.I hope I seeyou well."

(1556-1733),British First Lord of the Admiralty (1690) and lord lieutenant of lrelandWilliam Herbert, 3d (1707). His great-uncle by someto bethe belieued is Earl of Pembioke, sonnets. "W. H." of Shakespeare's
I Strict with his seryants' Lord Pembroke would dismisson the spot any that were found drunk. He generally turned a blind eYe,however, to the misdeedsof a trusty old footman called John. But on one occasion this proved impossible, for John had appearedin full view of his master almost too drunk to stand, and the incident had been witnessed by other membersof the household.Unperturbed, Lord Pembroke went straight up to the tottering footman, felt his pulse, and exclaimed, "God blessus, he is in a raging fever! Get him to bed directly and send for the apothe cary." The apothe cary was ordered to bleed the patient copiously and give him a strong dose of medicine every twenty-four hours, with the result that after a few daysJohn staggeredout looking weaker and paler than the most severeillnesscould have left him. "I am truly glad to see

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'Wallace recalledthe namesof masters Minutes. of the instrument-Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, IsaacStern, Perlmanhimself-and then asked why so many greatviolinists were Jewish. Holding up his fingers and twiddling them, Perlman replied: "You see, our fingers are circumcised, which gives it a very good dexterity, you know, particularly in the pinky." 6s, q8 PERON, Eva Duarte de (19"1,9-52), Argentinian actresswho becamethe secondwife of PresidentJuan Peron. Euita, ds she was known, wes idolized by the poor, whose lot she campaigned to improue. After her early death from cnncer, Peron's political strength was undermined. I Eva rose from the obscurity of a poor t working-classbackground through a combination of talent, beauty, and unscrupulousness. I She had a series of increasingly influential $ loverswhom sheusedto further her careerand then discarded.As rhe wife of PresidenrJuan Per6n,shewas sent on a tour to win friends for Argentina among the European powers. Her reception was somewhat mixed. As she drove through the streetsof Milan, accompaniedby a retired admiral, the crowd shouted "\fhore." Angrily Eva turned to her escort, "They are calling me a whore!" "That's all right," said the admiral soothingly. "l haven't been to sea for fifteen years, yet they still call me admiral." {Eva'sadmirerscirculated stories,hagiographical in character, of her goodness and charity; this srory is probably an equally apocryphal fabrication of the other side.)
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thee alive," cried the earl, "though you have had a wonderful escape, and ought to be thankful. Why, if I had not passedby at that time and spied the condition you were in, you would have been dead before rlow. But John," he added emphatically, "no more of these fevers!"

A* '--8 PERELMAN, S[idney] J[oseph](1904-79), US humorist and screerupriter. He wrote the scripts some of the Marx Brothers' for films,but is bestknown for the humorousshort stories and sketches that he contributed to The New Yorker from the 1930s onward.Many collecpieces tions of these hauebeenpublished.
I On a visit to Taipei, Perelman,accosredby a group of prostitures, had some difficulty in escapingfrom their importunities. Having at last shaken them off he headed back ro his hotel, remarkirg, "A case of the tail dogging the wag." {This complex pun has been claimed by others.) As' 4t PERICLES (c. 495-429 BC),Athenian statesman and orntor. As leader of the democratic paryy, Periclesattained supremacy in Athenian politics in 443 BC. He consolidated Athens's pos.ition abroad and beautified the city with public buildings, including the Parthenon. Despite the machinations of his enemies he wAs still gulding Athenian policy at the outbreak of the PeloponnesianWar (43L). '$far I During the Peloponnesian an eclipse occurredwhen Pericles was about ro set out to sa.As the pilot was too terrified to perform his duties, Periclessrepped forward and covered the man's head with his cloak. "Does this frighten you?" he asked."No," said the pilot. "Then what difference is there between the two eventsr"inquired Pericles, "except that the sun is covered by a larger object than my cloak?" Ar' 48 PERLMAN, Itzhak (1945- ), Israeli uiolinist. At the ageof thirteen he won a talent competition to appear onUS teleuision.He went on to study in New York, subsequently touring in Israel, Europe, and the United States. 1 In 1980 Mike \il7allaceinterviewed the great violinist on the television program 60

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Ar' 48 PEROT, H.Ross(1930- ), US computermillionaire and philanthropist. (David Frost tells this story:) "Looking around for a suitableway of serving the community, Mr. Perot decided that he would give a Chrisrmaspresentro everyAmerican prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. Accordingly, thousands of parcels were wrapped ina packed, and a fleet of Boeing 707s-waschartered to deliverthem ro Hanoi. Then the messagecamefrom the governmentof Vietnam no suchgesturecould be considered during the courseof the bloody war, which was then it its height. Perot argued. The Vietnamesereplied I

447 while Amerithat any charity was impossible Vietnamese vilcan B-52s were devastating lages. "'No problem,'Perot replied.He would hire an expert American constructioncompany in order to rebuild anythingthe Americanshad knockeddown. inscrutabecame Vietnamese "The puzzled ble, and declinedto continuethis dialogue. Christmasdrew closer,the parcelsremained Perottook off in Finallyin despair undelivered. fleetand flew to Moscow where his chartered oneat atime, at the posted theparcels, hisaides Moscow Centralpost office.They weredeliveredintact." 6rt ,.8 PERRY, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819)'US naualcomma.nder.
I During the battle of Lake Erie in 1813' Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, was so badly damagedthat he was obliged to abandon it and row to the Niagara. After finally forcing the British fleet to surrender, Perry made no referof the battle in the disence to the exigencies patch announcing his victory. It read simply, "'We have met the enemy, and they are ours." {Perry's words are memorable, but have become immortal through the parody on them by Walt Kelly's inimitable cartoon character, Pogo: "'We have met the enemy and he is us.") A.' 48 PERUGINO, Pietro [Pietro di Cristoforo Vannuccil (1445-1,523),Italian painter, born near Perugia. He was among the artists employed to paint the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Raphael, one of his pupils, was influenced by his graceful and balanced style. I Perugino was commissioned to paint frescoes(now lost) in a convent in Florence.The niggardly prior stood over the artist while he worked, holding the little b"g that contained the expensiveultramarine pigment and allowing Perugino only tiny quantities at a time. Every now and then he would wail, "How much blue that wall is eating!" Perugino said nothing, but worked steadily, occasionally cleaninghis brush in a bowl of water. When he had completed his day's work, he drained the bowl and handed it back to the prior with its

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sediment of pure ultramarine at the bottom. "Here you arerFather. learnto trust And please man." an honest 2 On his deathbed, Perugino refused to send for the priest.His lastwords were:"I am curiousto seewhat happens in the next world to one who diesunshriven." 0r, ..6 PETAIN, [Henri] Philippe (1855-1951), The heroof the and statesman. Frenchgeneral he became of Verdun (191,5), Frenchdefense by primeministerin 1940, before tbe defeat iust a pactuith Hitler allowing He signed Germany. at Vichy for una gouernment him to establish At the end of the war Phtain France. occupied to deathas a traitor, but the wls condemned to life imprisonment. wAscommuted sentence 1916,one of to December I From February battlesof \7orld War I wasfought the fiercest in northeast France. at Verdun-sur-Meuse MarshalP6tainwasin commandof the Allied William comFrederick troops;Crown Prince At the beginningof mandedthe Germans. saidof thb GerP6tain the battlea determined The resolumantroops,"They shallnot pass." tion was upheld and the Allies ultimately but only afteronemillion liveshad triumphed, beenlost. de Gaullereturnedto Charles 2 In June1'940 to bring MarshalPtain Francefrom England an offer from \Tinston Churchill of "union" to resistthe Gerthe two countries between P6tain,knowing that France's man onslaught. andbelieving wasonly hours away capitulation thit Englandwas doomed too' reiectedthe offer, saying, "'What use is fusion with a corpse?" 4., ..S
PETER I [Peter the GreatJ$672-1725), czar (1582-1721) and later emperor (1721-25) of Russia. During the 1590s Peter traueled in Europe and, influenced by the ideas be encountered there, tried to modernize his backward, feudal state by reforming the gouernment and affny and encouraging trade and industry. He also extended Russian territory to the west and southelst. I In the Russianarmy there was a secretsociety whose membersgained promotion by their

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1 Petronius had received an invitation to a specialbanquetat Nero's palace.The meal was to be followed by r "licentious entertainment" featuring a hundred naked virgins. Petronius refused the invitation. "Tell the emperor," he "that one hundred instructed his messengr, 'naked virgins are not one hundred times as exciting as one naked virgin." A.- q8 PHELPS, William Lyon (1855-1943), US scholar and critic. He taugbt English literature at Yale for forty-one years,holding a chair from 1901until his retirementin 1.933. \. Marking an examination paper written il shortly before Christmas, Phelpscame across { il the note: "God only knows the answer to this I question. Merry Christmas." Phelpsreturned i the paperwith the annotation:"God gersan A. get an F. Happy New Year." \You A* e8 PHILIP, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh (1921- ), husband of Queen Elizabeth II of tbe United Kingdom. I During a tour of Can ada in the early years of their marriage,Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth had a rather turbulent crossing ro Vancouver Island on a Canadian destroyer. Tea was served in the royal suite by r young petty officer.As he enteredwith a large tray of cakes,the ship lurched violenrly and the cakes were thrown to the floor. To the officer's amazement,Prince Philip immediately wenr down on his hands and knees and crawled around the floor, rerrievingabout half of the cakes.Returning to his seat,he smiled triumphantly at Elizabethand said,"l've gor mine yours are down there." 2 Visiting an Ansrralian university during a royal tour in 1,954,Prince Philip was introduced to a "Mr. and Dr. Robinson." "My wife is a doctor of philosophy," explained Mr. Robinson. "She is much more important than I." "Ah, yes," repliedPrincePhilip sympathetically. "'We havethat trouble in our family, too." 3 Prince Philip was asked by ^ hostile questioner what kind of work he would saythat he did. "l'm self-employed,"he replied.

ability to withstand torture and who practiced againstgreater and greater inuring themselves degreesof pain. One of these officerswas involved in a plot against Peter, and although tortured four times refused to confess.Peter, realizingthat pain would not break him, went up to him and kissedhim. "l know full vrell that you were party to the plot againstffi, but you have been punished enough. Now, confess freelyto me on account of the love you owe to your czar) and I swear that I will grant you a completepardon. Not only that, but as a special sign of my mercy I will make you a colonel." The man was so unnervedby Peter'stactics that he embraced him and made a full confession.Peter kept his side of the bargain and made him a colonel. 2 Peter,greatly interestedin medicine, often surgeonsand dentists in their operaassisted tions. One morning one of his valetsappealed to the czar to help his wife; she was suffering dreadfully from a toothache, he said, but refused to have the offending tooth pulled and pretended to be in no pain when approached by ^ dentist. Peter collected his dental instrumentsand followed the valet to his apartmenrs, where, ignoring the cries and protesrs of the struggling woman, h. extracted the tooth. Some days later the czar discovered that the poor woman had never had a toothache; the painful extraction had been her husband'srevengefor a domestic quarrel. As, qt PETERBOROUGH, CharlesMordaunt, 3d EarJ of (1658-r73s), Britisb diplomat, soldier, and admiral. I In 1710, when the Duke of Marlborough was out of favor with the London populace,a mob attacked Peterboroughin the srreer,mistaking him for the hated and ungenerous duke. He finally convinced them that he was nor Marlborough by saying, "In the first place, I have only five guineasin my pocket; and in the second,they are very much at your service." 6s' q8 PETRONIUS, Gaius ["Petronius Arbiter"] (fl. eo 60),Roman writer, a fauorite at tlte court of Emperor Nero. He is belieued to baue been the autbor of the Satyricon)A satirical romance.

449 4 An official greetedPrince Philip as he stepped from an aircraftwith the words:"And how wasyour flight, sir?" "Have you everflown?"askedthe prince. "Yes,sir, often." "'Well,it waslike that."
{Royalty must become very bored with both air travel and banal conversation,so it would be pleasant to think that this exchangeactually happened.) 5 During a royal visit to a small English town, Prince Philip stopped to talk to two very old ladies."I'ml tt"nared and fourr" boastedone of the women, "and my friend here is a hundred and one." "I don't believe it," said Philip, his eyes twinkling. "Ladies always take ten years off their age." i 6 Speakingat a meeting of manufacturers of man-madefibers,Philip questionedhis right to be there. "I'm not very good at producing strok- | man-madefibers myselfr" he confessed, ing his balding head.

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replied: "lf ." Recalling gloriSpartans Sparta's Philipthoughtbetterof it and ousmilitarypast, left themalone.
3 Philip was alwaysaccompaniedby two menf whose duty it was to sayto him eachmorning{ "Philip, remember that you are but a man.'f Each evening they said, "Philip, have you re{ membered that you are but a man?" I As, e8 PHILIP III (1578- L62I), king of Spain(159851). and incompetent,PhiI Politically indecisive lip is said to have died of a fevet. This was the of overheatinghimself by sitting consequence too long near a hot brazier. It did not occur to him to mov e away from the heat. How could he?The palacefunctionary whose iob it was to removethe braziercould not be found. Philip's death was inevitable. 6c, ..8 PHILIP V (1683-1746),king of Spain (170045).The grandson of Louis XIV of France,Philip becameking under the will of Charles ll of Spain. I Louis XIV hesitatedfor nearly a week after receivingnewsof the death of CharlesII and his bequest to Philip. He wondered whether to accept the legacy. On November 15, 1700, he made the formal announcement, after his court. "Gentlemenr" he Ieuer,to the assembled said,leadingPhilip fonvard, "here is the king of Spain." He then made a brief but touching speech,exhorting his grandson to be a good Spaniardand keep the peacein Europe. Overcome with emotion, the Spanishambassador fell on his knees before Philip and kissed his hand and said, "The Pyreneeshave ceasedto exist." {Voltaire attributes the famous remark to Louis himself.) about the Pyrenees A+ 48 PHILIP, John Woodward (1840-1900), US naual commander. \ilVar of 1898 1 During the Spanish-American Captain Philip was in command of the battlefleet,blockaded ship Texls.The entire Spanish by the Americans in the bty of Santiago de

A.' q8 PHILIP II (382-336 BC),king of Macedon and diplomacy (359-335 BC).His conquests raisedMacedonto thestatusof a maiorpower. (338)the hegemAfter the Banleof Chaeronea passed to Philip. He wLs assasony of Greece his throneto his in a family plot,leauing sinated son,Alexanderthe Great.
1 Like Alexander the Great, Philip had the reputation of being a heavy drinker. Once when drunk he gave an uniust verdict in the case of a woman who was being tried before him. "I appeal!" cried the unfortunate litigant. "To whom?" askedthe monarch,who was also the highest tribunal in the land. "From Philip drunk to Philip sober," was the bold reply. The king, somewhat taken back, gave the casefurther consideration. 2 After Philip had subdued or formed alliances with all the major Greek city-states, Spartastill remained aloof. Finding that diplomacy had no effect on its stubborn independence,Philip sent a threat: "You are advisedto submit without further delay,for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." The

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deteriorate. It occurred to Piatigorsky that he was perhaps discouragingthe young man by performing the pieces too well himself. He therefore began to introduce a few deliberate mistakes; miraculously, the pupil showed marked signsof improvement.Thi; method of teachingcontinued for someweeks,with Piatigorsky taking a perversepleasurein being free to play as badly as he pleased. The young man went on to perform with brilliant successat his graduation. Fighting through the crowd of well-wishersto congrarulate his pupil, Piatigorskyheard someoneask the new graduatewhat he thought of the grear cellist. "As a teachetr" replied the young man, 'excellent. But as a cellist,lousy."

Cuba, was destroyedwhen it emergedon July 3. As the Texassailedpast the burning er V izcayain pursuitof another Spanish cruis Spanish ship,Philipchecked the natural iubilation of his crewwith the words:"Don't cheer, boys;the poor devilsaredying." Ac, q8
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PHILLIPS, Wendell(1811,-84), US reformer and orator.He trainedasa lawyer,but deuoted much of his life to tbe campaigns for the abolition of slaur!,women'ssuffrage, and uarious other reforms.
I In the days before he becamewell known, Phillips spent a night in a hotel at Charlesron, South Carolina. His breakfastwas broughr up by slave,to whom Phillips beganto expound his"abolitionist ideals. After a rime, realizing that his discoursewas making little impression, Phillips gaveup and told him he could go. The man stood firm. "You must excuse mer" he said. "I am obliged to stay here, ocause I'm responsiblefor the silvenvare." 2 While rilTendellPhillips was on a lecture tour in the northern states,he was accostedby a minister from Kentucky who aftacked him for his abolitionist views. "You want to free the slaves, don't you?" demandedthe minister. "lndeed I do." "Then why are you preachingyour doctrines up here? \7hy don'r you try going ro Ken-

Ar, e8 PICABIA, Francis (L879-L9 53), French painterof Spanish descent, oneof thefirst exponentsof Dadaism.Picabiawas also a writer, muchof his work appearing in his own iournal -24). 3e1(1e17
I In Picabia'schdteau the rooms were designed with different themes; the children's room was furnished with grotesquemasks,instruments of torture, witch craft trappings,and a mechanicalghost that could be animated at night to rattle chains. The painter chose this theme for the children'sroom because he believed in training them in fearlessness from an early age. "'When they get a bit older, I shall replace the ghost with a creditor waving an unpaid bill," he said.

tucky?" Phillipsretorted,"You're a minister, aren't you?"

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"And you try to save soulsfrom hell?" "Yes,I do." "'Well,why don't you go therethen?"said Phillips. 6r, ".6 PIATIGORSKY, Gregor(1903-7 6), Russian cellist. Appointedprincipalcellistof theBolshoi Theatre Orchestra in 1919, he emigrated to the UnitedStates in 1921,wherehe wasacclaimed the leadingcellistof his generation.
I Piatigorskywas having problems with one of his pupils. No matter how many times the master played a piece to show how it should sound, his student failed to make any significant progress; in fact, his playing seemed ro

As, 4 PICASSO, Pablo(1881-1973), Spanish artist, sculptor, andceramist. After 1900 heworkedin Paris,achieuing success with picturesof stage and street life in blue(theso-called BluePeriid; 1901-04) and rose(1905-08). In collaboration witb Georges Braque,he deueloped Cubism, one_ of the most influentialof modernpainting styles,and later turned to surrealisticfiSrrit studies. (1937), Guernica his huge and coitrouersial masterpiece, showsthedestraction of the Basquecapital by Germanplanesduring the Spanish Ciuil War. Picasso alsopaintedsome striking portraits in uariousstyles.
recallshis mother's ambitions for ft (Picasso Ihim.)

I "when I was a child, ffiy mother said to me,

45L 'lf you become a soldier, you'll bea general. If \ you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope.'I InsteadI became a painterand wound up as I Picasso."
2 In 1906 Gertrude Stein sat to Picassofor her portrait. At the end of many sittings he simply obliterated the picture, sayinghe could no longer "see" her. Later he completed the picture, in the absenceof a sitter, and gavethe portrait to Miss Stein.Shecomplainedthat she did not look like that. Picassosaid, "But you will," and this prediction was borne out as Miss Stein aged. 3 When Picassopainted his famous portrait of Gertrude Stein, he was virtually unknown. Some years later the millionaire art collector Dr. Albert Barnes, interested in the picture, asked Miss Stein straight out how much she had paid for it. "Nothing," Miss Stein replied. "Naturally, he gave it to me." Dr. Barneswas incredulous. She subsequentlyrecounted the incident to Picasso, who smiled and said, "He doesn't understand that at that time the difference between a saleand a glft was negligible." 4 Not long after the outbreak of \7orld were standing \Var I Gertrude Steinand Picasso a procesParis, watching in corner street a on the sidesof sion of camouflagedtrucks passing, the vans disguised by blotches of gray and blurted greenpaint. Picasso,in his amazement, out, "C'est nous qui at)onsfait ca" (It is we who have created that). 'War II Picasso suffered 5 During rilTorld some harassment from the Gestapo in Nazioccupied Paris. An inquisitive German officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a photograph of Guernicalying on a table. "Did you do that?" he asked Picasso."No, you didr" said Picasso. 6 Picasso fell into conversation with an American GI in Paris,who told him that he did not like modern paintings becausethey were not realistic. Picassodid not immediately respond, but when the soldiera few minutes later showed him a snapshot of his girlfriend, he exclaimed, "My, is she really as small as that?"

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paused in front of a strikingexample of his late style."'Whatdoesthis picturerepresent?" she asked."Two hundredthousanddollarsr"anPicasso. swered
8 As the market value of Picasso'sworks grew, so too did the cottage industry of faking his paintings. A poor artist who owned a supposed Picassosent it via a friend for the master to authenticateso that he could sell it. Picasso said, "It's false." From a different source the friend brought another Picasso and then a third. On each occasion Picasso disowned them. Apropos the third painting the man protested, "But I saw you paint this one with my own eyes.tt aswell asanyoor" "l can paint falsePicassos retorted Picasso. Then he bought the first painting from the impoverishedaftist for a sum iout times as high aJ the owner had originally hoped it would fetch. 9 Friends lunching at Picasso'shome in the south of France commented on the fact that their host had none of his own pictures on the walls. "Why is that, Pablo?"one of them asked. "Don't you like them?" "On the contratyr" replied the painter, "I like them very much. It's iust that I can't afford them."

to visitedhis local cabinetmaker 10 Picasso wardrobefor his chia mahogany commission he the shape anddimensions teau.To illustrate he drew a hastysketchon a sheetof required, "How paperand handedit to the craftsman. "Nothing at all," muchwill it cost?"he asked. replied the cabinetmaker.'Just sign the sketch."
11 Picasso was relaxing on a beach in the south of France when he was accosted by " small boy clutching a blank sheetof paper. The child had evidently been dispatched by his parents to solicit an autographed drawing. After a moment's hesitation, Picassotore up the paper and drew a few designson the boy's back instead. He signed his name with a flourish and sent the child back to his parents. Relating the incident at a later date, Picasso remarked thoughtfully, "I wonder if they'll ever wash him again?" 12 Picassowas asked whether it didn't tire him to stand in front of a canvasfor three or

pictures 7 After World War II Picasso's were handsfor fabuloussums. An Americhanging visitedthe artist's canmillionairess studio.She

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'i handle-bar and the seatof a bicycle,lying in I picked away such as to look likea bull'shead. i put nobody so that and together up them ithem j could possiblyfail to realrzethat this seatand from a bikewerereallya bull's I this handle-bar
and head. My metamorphosiswas successful, now I wish there could be another one, this Supposethat one daymy head time in reverse. of a bull were to be thrown on a junk heap. Maybe a little boy would come along and no'Now there's sometice it and say to himself, thing I could useasa handle-barfor my bike.' If that ever happens,we will have brought off a double metamorphosis." 17 (David Douglas Duncan describesa conhouse.) versation during a meal at Picasso's o'During the meal I mentioned that it seemed really eerie to me to watch his gazeleap from article to article on the table and around the room, knowing perfectlywell he was not seeing anythingasI saw it, and neverhad. I added that it seemed incredible that one person ever dreamed of such varied imagesthroughout a lifetime and could still be doing it today without apparently even trying. Picassoanswered very simply,'If I tried, they would all look the
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four hours while he was painting. "No," he replied. "That is why painters live so long. \7hile I work, I leave my body outside the door, the way Muslims take off their shoes before entering the mosque." studio found the afi13 A visitor to Picasso's ist gazing disconsolatelyat a painting on the easel. "lt's a masterpiecer" said the visitor, hoping to cheer Picasso up. "No, the noseis all wroogr" Picasso said."It throws the whole picture out of perspective." "Then why not alter the nose?" "l can't find "Impossibler" replied Picasso. it." {Probably an apocryphal story.} 14 A rich Dutch grocer who prided himself on his art collection managedto obtain an introduction to Picasso. He examinedthe works in the studio and then said, "Master, I understand every one of your productions except
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"And that is?" "Your dove. It seemsto me so simple, so primitive that I cannot understandit." "Sir," Picassoasked, "do you understand Chinese?"
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"Six hundredmillion peopledo." And Pipolitelyshowedhim out. casso

15 (The one-time surrealist Robert Desnos recounts a story that Picassotold him.) "l had lunched at the Catalan for months," Picassosaid, "and for months I looked at the sideboard without thinking more than 'ir's a sideboard.'One d^y I decideto make a picture of it. I do so. The next d^yrwhen I arrived, the sideboardhad gone,its placewas empty. . . I must have taken it away without noricing by painting it." (Desnos comments on this anecdote, saying that it is like a fable illustrating Picasso's relationshipto his subjects,that what he paints he takespossession of "as himself the creator of the object or of the being.") 16 (Picasso told the following story to Andre \il7arnod.) "Do you rememberthat head of a bull I had in my last show? I'll tell you how it was conceived. One d^y I noticed in a corner the

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18 (Ronald Penrose, Picasso's biographer, recalls a visit to the artist in his Paris apartment.) o'l happened to notice that a large Renoir hanging over the fireplace was crooked. 'lt's 'if better like that,' [Picasso] said, you wanr ro kill a picture all you have to do is to hang it beautifully on a nail and soon you will see nothing of it but the frame. \fhen it's out of place you seeit better."'

19 In laterlife Picasso visited anexhibition of "When I children'sdrawings.He obseroed, wastheir age,lcoulddrawlike Raphael, but it took mea lifetimeto learnto drawlike them." Ao, ..6 PICCARD, Auguste (1884-1952),Swiss physicist. In 1931and 1932he madeballoon into thestratosphere ascents in orderto inuestigatecosmicraysand otherphenomena.
Auguste and his twin brother, Jean Felix, It / had spent the night in a strangetown and were I both in need of a shave. Entering the local

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barber'sshopalone,Augustesettleddown in the chair and said,"Make sureyou giveme a My beardgrows so rapidly that closeshave. I need antwo hours after I've had a shave, other." The barberlookedat him in disbelief. "If your beardgrows in two hoursr" he said "I'll giveyou anothershave free." skeptically, Augusteleft the shop in due course,cleanTwo hours shavenand apparentlysatisfied. later, the barberwas horrifiedto seehis customerreturnwith a dark growth of stubbleon me?"asked hischin."Now do you believe Jean Felix ashe sat down for his free shave.

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againstreuolutionary France,and from 1793, againstNapoleon. I A numberof volunteers in London offered Pitt theirservices asmilitia.Althoughtheywere prepared ze andequipthemselves, to organi the offerwashedged aboutwith a numberof provisosthat substantially its usefulness. reduced Pitt read through their proposal until he reached a clause statingthat theyshouldnever berequired to leave the kingdom.At this point he pickedup a pen and addedin the margin, "exceptin the case of actualinvasion."
2 Pitt had been urging Parliament to approve the immediate dispatch of the British fleet againstthe French. In order to securethe necessaryappropriation, he had to persuadeLord Newcastle, the chancellor of the exchequer, who opposed his policy. Pitt called on the chancellor to pursue the question and found him in bed, sufferingfrom gout. It was autumn, the room was unheated, and Pitt remarked how cold it was. Newcastle ironically replied that the weather would hinder any fleet movements and indeed hinder any comfortable discussionof the point at issue.Pitt answeredthat he did not so lightly relinquishhis plans.Then, askingpardon, h. removed his boots, climbed into the room's other bed, drew up the cover, and began a unique conference. He won his point. 3 Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz in December 1805 left him master of Europe and spelled the end of Pitt's alliance against him 'S7hen with Sweden, Austria, and Russia. the news of the battle was brought to Pitt, he pointed to a large map of Europe on the wall and said, "Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years." 4 Pitt died in office, worn out by overwork and crushed by the overthrow of his coalition against Napoleon. Desperately aware of the dangerousebb of England's fortunes, he murmured ashe died, "My country, oh, how I leave my country!" {Another version is: "My country, oh, how I love my country!" Alternative last words attributed to Pitt are the far more touching "I think I could eat one of Belpies.") lamy's-veal Aro ..6

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1 On tour with a theater company, Miss Picon overheardsomeof her fellow performers discussingtheir rather inadequate accommodations. "I never complain about such things - my grandmother brought up elevenchildren in four roomsr" she remarked, breaking into the conversation. "How did she manage?" "Easyr" reasked one of the other actresses.

plied Molly. "Shetook in boarders." 4., ..6 US operasinger, PINZA, Ezio (1,892-1957), performer, he alsoapborn in ltaly. A uersatile and A numberof pearedin musicalcomedies films.
1 Soon after opening in the Broadway production of South Pacific, Pinza called at his favorite restaurant for his customary twelvecourse dinner. Noticing the look of astonishment on the waiter's face as he took the order, Pinza snapped,"'$7hat's the matter with you? I may be singing musical comedy these daysbut I still eat grand ope ra!"

Ar, '.8 British statesPITT, William (1759-1805), 1,804-05), man; prime minister(1783-1801, known as Villiam Pin tbe Youngerto distinguisbbim from his father,theEarl of Chatham. British prime ministerin Pitt wls the youngest history.At homehewaschieflyconcerrred with reorganizing the economy,but he also faced crises ouertheadministrationof India and lreland. He spearheaded the diplomaticoffensiue

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PLINY [Pliny the Younger] (c. 6t-c. 133), Roman orator, statesmnn,and lawyer. His letters couer a wide rangeof subiects,from offi.cial when he was a prouincial gouercorrespondence nor to ghost stories and descriptions of boar hunts. I At dinner Pliny noticed that his host distributed the food and wine according to the social standing of the diners.Rich and elegant dishesand the bestwine were senredto himself while cheapand and his most honored guests, paltry food and drink were set before the rest. Another guest, sensingPliny's disapproval of inquired how he measures, theseparsimonious managedin his own home. Pliny answered,"l provide eachguestwith the sam e farerfor when I invite a man to my table I haveplacedhim on a footing of equalitywith me and I will therefore treat him as an equal." The other man was surprised."Even freedmen?"he asked."Even freedmD," replied Pliny, "because on these occasionsI regardthem as companions,not as freedmen."The other remarkedthat this must run Pliny into a greatdeal of expense."Not at all," said Pliny, "for my freedmendon't drink the same wine as I do, but / drink what they
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"Alferd Packer ate five prospectors whom he was guiding over a high Colorado plateauin 1874. "The judge who sentencedPacker to 'There hang indignantly pointed out that was only six Democratsin all of Hinsdale County and you ate five of them."' -John Train, T rue Remarkable Occurrences (Train notes: "The Department of Agriculture startled the official community by dedicating the cafeteria in its Washington building to Alferd Packer '1.977. in The General Services Administration then removed the dedicatory plaque, accusing the Department of Agriculture of 'bad taste."')

Greekphilosopher, PLATO (c. 428-c.348 BC), who founded the Academy at Athens. His writings include The Apology, Phaedo, and The Republic. Tbe great British thinker A. N. Whitehead once commented that all Western philosophy consistsof footnotes to Plato. I A student, strugglingwith the abstractconcepts of Platonic mathematics, asked Plato, "What practical end do thesetheorems senre? What is to be gainedfrom them?" Plato turned to his attendant slave and said, "Give this young man an obol [a small coin] that he may feel that he has gained something from my teachings,and then expel him." 2 Plato consideredthe abstractspeculations of pure mathematicsto be the highestform of thought of which the human mind was capable. He therefore had written over the entranceto the Academy "Let no one ignorant of mathematics enter here." 3 Diogenescame to Plato's house one d^y and was disgusted to find rich and exquisite carpetson the floor. To show his contempt he stampedand wiped his feet upon them, saying, "Thus do I trample upon the pride of Plato." "With greaterpride," observedPlato mildly. As, qE

As' 48 PLOMER, William (1903-73),SouthAfrican poet and nouelist. He published Collected Poems in 1960, wrote libretti fo, Beniamin Britten's operas,and produced some memortble sbort stories. I In Birmingham for the first time William Plomer was enthralledby the namesof destinations written on the front of buses.As he and Walter Allen waited at a bus stop, he recited the namesaloud. Eventuallya number 12A appeared, with the legend: "'\il7ORLD'S END VIA LAKEY LANE," "Pure Auden," said Plomer. As, q8 PLOTINUS (205-270), Greek philosopher. He settled and taught in Rome, wbere he founded the Neoplatonic school of philosophy. His teaching emphasizedtlte reality of a transcendent"One" And the unreality of the material world. I A friend urged Plotinus to havehis portrait painted. The philosopher refused: "It is bad

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455 enough to be condemned to dragaroundthis image in whichnaturehasimprisoned me.\U7hy should I consentto the perperuation of the imageof this image?" 6e, 48 poet,shortPOE, EdgarAllan (1809-49),US story writer, and literary critic. He is best remembered fo, his masterly horror stories, in Talesof the Grotesque contained and Ara(1840), poems, and melancholy besque suchas (1845). The Raven I An old literaryand militarytradition hasit from WestPointin L831 that Poewasexpelled he apfor "gross neglectof duty" because Parade peared dress nakedat a publicparade. for "white beltsandgloves, instructions called under arms." Poe took this literallyand apwearpeared with rifle overhis bareshoulder, - and nothingelse. ing belt and gloves A'' ''8 POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, Gian Francesco (1380-1459),ltalian bumanist scholar and himselfin all fieldsof writer. He distinguished today for literature,but is chieflyremembered auof classical of manuscripts his rediscouery lost. tbors belieued post in the papal I As holderof a secretarial dress alCuria, Poggio wore ecclesiastical formallyordained a priest. thoughhewasnever him for havingchilA cardinalreprimanded dren, which did not becomea man wearing garb,and for havinga mistress, ecclesiastical Pogeven to a layman. whichwasunbecoming gio retorted, "l have children, whichis suitable which is a for a layman, and I havea mistress, customof the clergy." time-honored Ary '.8 Poisson, POMPA DOUR, Jeanne-Antoinette Frenchlady of Marquised'Etoiles(1721-64), of Louis XV. Mme de Pomthe court;mistress padourplayed an importantpart in determining of Frenchpolitics in the 1750sand tlte course earlyL750s.
1 (Mme de Pompadour enjoyed surrounding \ herself with intellectuals and supported the 1 againstthe church. Despite her I Encyclopddiste.s efforts, dt one time the religious and antira- I tionalist factions in the court persuadedLouis I to ban the Encyclop1die.Soon after this a duke I

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wondered aloud at a royal supper parrywhat gunpowder wasmadeof.)

"'lt seems so funny that we spendour time killing partridgs,and being killed ourselves on the frontier, and really we have no idea how it happens.'Madame de Pompadour, seeingher opportunity, quickly went on: 'Yes, and face powder? What is that made of ? Now, if you had not confiscated the Encyclop1die,Sire, we could have found out in a moment.' The King sent to his library f or a copy, and presently a footman staggered in under the heavyvolumesl the party was kept amused for the rest of the eveninglooking up gunpowder, rouge, and so on. After this subscribers were allowed to have their copies, though it was still not on sale in the bookshops."

2 As shelay dying,Madamede Pompadour to God, herlaststrength andcalled summoned "'Wait a second,"as she dabbedher cheeks with rouge. Al, ..6 lst Baron POOLE, Oliver Brian Sanderson, Pooleof Aldg te, (1,911- ), Britishbusinessman. An actiue memberof the Conseruatiue party, he euentually became chairman(1955of theOldVic and a gouernor andhasbeen 57), a trustee of the National Gallery. manyof the flashI Duringthe I970sa great went under. Their ier British entrepreneurs had beenin part ascribable temporarysuccess loans freely made to them, to the extensive banks.The meroften by quite conseffative had 6cCo.,however, chantbankLazardFrdres then not committed this error.Lord Cowdray, that owned chairmanof the family business once askedLord Poole,then LazardFrBres, to of the firm, how he had managed chairman "Quite Poolereplied: avoidmaking suchloans. I only lent moneyto peoplewho had simple: beento Eton." A'' 48 POPE, Alexander(1588-1,744), poet, Englisb satirist,and translator. Crippledby illness at the ageof twelue, hesoongaueproof of his extraor(1709),written dinary talentsin his Pastorals whenhe was only sixteen.His Essay on Criticism (1711)ensured his entr1eto tlte London literary world, whicb he dominatedfor nearly thirty yenrs. He perfectedthe English heroic

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'tis not to write verses, beneathyour rank; leave such work to little Mr. Pope; it is his trade." 4 \fhen Pope was lying on his deathbed,the doctor assuredhim that his breathingwas easier, his pulse steadier, and various other encouraging things. "Here am Ir" commented Pope to a friend, "dying of a hundred good symptoms." Ar, '.8 US ecPOPE, Arthur Upham (1881,-L969), centric millionaire and authority on the art and archaeology of Iran (in his doy Persia) and neighboring Arab cultures. I Pope was single-mindedin his intellectual interests.In 1943 he agreedto deliver the annual Lincoln's Day addressat Cooper Union, New York, where Lincoln had once made an epochal speech.According to a New Yorker magazine account he spoke for about an hour and a half on his favorite topic, Middle Eastern cultures.At the very end, recallinghis assigned subject,he discharged his obligation by stating: "Lincoln knew no Arabs, but he would have enjoyed meeting them, and they would have recognrzedhim as a great sheik." Ar, q8 PORSON, Richard (1759-1,808), British classical scholar renowned for his knowledgeof ancient Greek and his editions of the plays of Euripides. Many stories are told of his drinking bouts. I Porson had an outstanding memory, first revealed during his schooldays at Eton. A classmate, as a practical joke, had borrowed his copy of Horace's Odes, artfully replacing it with a different text. As the Latin lessonbegan, Porson was asked to read and translate one of the odes.This he did without faltering, but the master, noticing that the boy appearedto be readingfrom the wrong side of the page,asked which edition he was using. Porson sheepishly handed the book to his master, who was amazed to find that he had just recited the Latin ode from memory while looking at an English version of Ovid. I Z Porson was once traveling in a stagecoach I with a young Oxford srudent who, in an atI tempt to impress the ladies present, let slip a

coupletas a satiricalmedium in The Rapeof andthe uersion 1714) enlarged the Lock (1712; The Dun"Epistleto Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735). writers,came ciad,his satireon contemporary (1728,1.729, 1743). Pope out in threeuersions and OdysHomer'sIliad (1720) alsotranslated thephilosophical sey(1725-25),and published poems andMoral An Essay on Man (1733-34) (1731.-35). Essays
and financier CharlesMontagu, I Statesman first Earl of Halifax, prided himself upon his literary acumen. When Pope had completed the first few books of his translation of the Iliad, Montagu invited him to give a reading at his house. Other eminent literary figuresalso attended.Popeconsideredthat the readinghad gone off very well, even though Lord Halifax had interrupted, most politely, four or five times to say that there was something about he did not think quite that particular passage righr and that Pope could improve it with some more thought. On the way home with physician and poet Samuel Garth, Pope confessed that he was much perplexed by Lord Halifax's rather vagueobjections.He went on to saythat although he had been thinking about the offending passages ever since, he could not for the life of him seewhat should be done to make them more acceptable to his lordship. Dr. Garth reassured him; he knew Lord Halifax very well, he said, and all Pope needed to do was to leave the passages as they were, wait a couple of months, and then go back to Lord Halifax, thank him for his kind criticisffis, and read him the "corrected" passages. In due course Pope had another sessionwith Lord Halifax, reading him the passages exactly as they had been.His lordship was delighted,and congratulated Pope on getting them absolutely right.

2 Pope'stranslations of Homer's lliad and Odyssey offended the classical scholar Richard Bentley. lliad he said,"lt is a pretty Of Pope's poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it
Homer.tt {Modern critics tend to agree with Bentley.) 3 Pope's father was a linen-draper, and, although his family was respectable,it was by no means aristocratic. George II, alert to social distinctions,advisedLord Hewey, "You ought

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Greek quotation which he said was from Sophocles. The professor was not taken in by the young man's bluff and, pulling a pocket edition of Sophoclesfrom the folds of his coar, challengedhim to find the passage in quesrion.Undeterred, the student said that he had made a mistake and that the quotation was in fact from Euripides. To the great amusement of the young ladies,Porson immediately produced a copy of Euripides from his pocket and issued the samechallenge.In a last desperateattempt to savef.ace,the young man announced with conviction that the passagewas, of course, from Aeschylus.However, on seeingthe inevitable copy of Aeschylusemergefrom Porson's pocket, he finally admitted defeat. "Coachman!" he cried. "Let me out! There's a fellow here has the whole Bodleian Library in his pocket." 3 Porson arrived unexpectedly to stay with the portrait-painter John Hoppner. Hoppner told him he could not offer much in the way of hospitality as Mrs. Hoppner was away and had taken with her the kry to the wine closet.In the course of the eveningPorson becameincreasingly restless,declared that he was sure Mrs. Hoppner would keep some wine for her own private enjoyment hidden somewhere in her that he might be allowed bedroom, and asked 'Sfith some irritation Hoppner to searchfor it. agreed,and was greatly chagrinedwhen Porson returned from his searchclutching a bottle and pronouncing it to be the bestgin he had tasted for a long time. rUfhenMrs. Hoppner returned, her husband iather angrily told her that Porson had found and consumed her hidden drink. "Good heavens,"shecried, "that was spirit of wine for the lamp!" (This is just one of a number of stories that confirm the observation that Porson would "drink ink rather than not drink at all.") 4 Porson was once asked for his opinion of I the poetical works of his younger contempo- [ rary Robert Southey. "Your works will be I read," he told him, "after Shakespeareand I -l Milton are forgotten - and not till then." 5 A junior scholar once rashly suggestedto Porson that they could collaborate. Porson applauded the notion: "Put in all I know and all

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POUSSIN, Nicolas (1594-L665), French classical painter who lpent most of his working life in Rome. His mature works deal mainly with figures from the OId Testament or classicalmythology. I Exasperatedby his failure to produce a satisfactory depiction of the foam around the mouth of a spirited horse, Poussindashedhis spongeagainstthe canvas.The effect thus created was exactly what he had been striving for i so laboriously. !

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Ar, 4E PREVIN, Andrd (1929- ), German-born pianist,and composer, conductor, knownespecially fo, his teleuisedconcert performAnces, which hauedone much to widen the audience for classicalmusic. He utas conductor of the (1.969-79) LondonSymphony Orchestra andin 1,977 became music director of the Pinsburgh Symphony; hebasalsomademanyappearances asguestconductor with othermaiororchestras. | (Asa teenager Previn usedto playthe piano at a cinemathat specialized in showingold silent movies.As he remembers, this job was short-lived.) "One afternoon I was poundingaway the appropriate musicfor a '20s 'FlamingYouth' movie, did not watch the screen,and was blithely unawarethat the main arrraction,a revivalof D. W. Griffith'sbiblicalmasterpiece Intolerance, had begun.I was enthusiastically playing a Charleston duringthe scene depicting the LastSupper when the manager of the theatercamestormingdown the aisle,and I was unemployed two minuteslater."

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deredthat blunt endsshould be substitutedfor the pointed ends on the lightning rods used on Sir John Pringleis reputed to have Kew Palace. remonstrated with the king, saying,"The laws at royal pleasur," of nature are not changeable For this undiplomatic remark he was compelled to forfeit his position in the Royal Society. A$ eE PROKOFIEV, Sergei(1891-1953) , Russian composer. His many works include the Classical Symphony (1915-17), Peter and the Wolf (1935),and the opera The Love for Three Oranges(1,919). I One regular concert-goer at the Brussels Philharmonic alwaysarrived at the concert hall armed with sketchbook and pencil. Shewould sketch the guest artist during the performance and have the portrait autographed afterward. \7hen Prokofiev's turn came, however, he refused to sign the picture, consideringit a poor likeness."lt looks more like Furtwangler," he said. The usher who was acting asintermediary for the lady pleaded with the composer: "Please, Mr. Prokofiev.Sheis sucha good subscriber. Please do this little thing for the Brussels Philharmonic!" Prokofiev looked at the picture again."All right," he sighed,picking up his pen and writing with a flourish. The usher examined the "autograph" more closely. Prokofiev had signedthe picture: "Furtwingler." Ary ..9 PULITZER, Joseph (1847-191,1),US newspaper baron, born in Hungary. He bought the New York tilTorld in 1883 and founded the New York Evening \7orld in L887. He also established tbe Pulitzer prizes, to be awarded "fo, the encouragement of public seruice,public morals, AmericAn literature, and the aduancement of education." I Like most great newspaperand magazine owners, Pulitzer was mildly megalomaniacal. He felt the World "should be more powerful than the president." He even thought it might t influence the inhabitants of other planets. He i once considerederectingan advertisingsign in New Jerseythat would be visible on Mars, and was dissuadedonly when one of his assistants I \ asked, "'What languageshall we print it in?" Ar, "e5

2 After a rehearsal with the London Sy-phony Orchestra, Previn was sitting in the bar of the Westbury Hotel, havinga drink with the soloist. He saw a young American composer whose work he had admired come into the room, and Previn beckoned him over and ordered him a drink. "f heard your orchestra a few nights agor" the composer said. "It soundedabsolutelymarvelous.It was the night the Beethoven Sixth was played in the first half." "Oh, Godr" Previn replied, "that was the night Pollini was supposedto play the Fourth Piano Concerto in the secondhalf, and he canceled, and we were stuck with one of those last-minute substitutions, that really appalling third-rate lady pianist. I'm really sorry you had to suffer through that." The young composer gavePrevin a long and thoughtful look. "That's all right," he said coolly, "I didn't mind. The pianist is my wife." 3 To assess their suitability for adopting a Vietnamese orphan, a Miss Taylor, who had run a Saigonorph anage,stayed with the Previn family for a weekend. At breakfast on the first morning, sheaskedif shemight havea bowl of cereal.Eagerto please,Previn reachedfor the health-food cerealthat his two small sonsconsumed with delight every morning and poured Miss Taylor a generousbowlful. \Ufhilesheate, he held forth on the nutritional value of the cereal. Miss Taylor made no reply, however, undl her bowl was empty. "To be quite honestr" she admitted, "l'm not crazyabout it." Previn'sglancehappenedto fall on rhe jar from which he had served Miss Taylor. "l'm not surprisd," he said slowly, "I've just made you eat a large dish of hamster food."

PRINGLE, Sir John (1707-82), phyScottish sicianbestremembered his work improue to for thefacilitiesof military hospiuls.He wls presidentof the RoyalSociety 2 to 177 8. from 177 | ill health is the causegenerally given for Pringle's resignation of the presidency of the RoyalSociety, but thereis alsoanotherexplanation. Benjamin Franklin'sinventionof the lightningrod had givenhim uniquesratus asa scientist all overtheWestern world. George III, however,who found Franklin'srevolutionary sentiments uncongenial, waseager to discredit his scientific achievements. He thereforeor-

459 -1837),Russian (1799 PUSHKIN, Alexander poet, nouelist, and playwright. His notable works include EugeneOnegin (1833), Boris Godunov (1831),and the epic The Bronze (1837). Horseman I Pushkinonce listenedto Gogol reading Dead Souls.He laughedheartily.Then suddenly his facegrew graveand he exclaimed, is!" "Oh God, how sadour Russia Ar, q8 US ReuolutionPUTNAM, Israel(1,718-90), Hauing sentedin the French ary commander. maiorgen- .? and Indian'War,he was appointed and comtlreReuolution eralat thebeginniryg.of \ battles. mandedat seueral
I During the French and Indian War Putnam was challenged to a duel by a British maior whom he had insulted.Realizingthat he would stand little chance in a duel with pistols, Putnam invited the major to his tent and suggested an alternativetrial of honor. The two men were sitting on small powder kegs, into each of which Putnam had inserted a slow-burning fuse. The first to squirm or move from his seat would be the loser. As the fuses burned, the major showed increasingsignsof anxiety, while Putnam continued to smoke his pipe with a casualair. Seeingthe spectatorsgradually disappear from the tent to escapethe impending explosion, the major finally leaped from his k.g, acknowledging Putnam asthe victor. Only then did Putnam revealthat the kegscontained onions, not gunpowder. PYLE, Ernest Taylor (1,900-45),US u)Ar correspondent.He won a Pulitzer Prize ft9aQ for his reporting of World War II. He was killed while couering the fighting against the J apanese in tbe Pacific. I Reporting on the Normandy landings, Ernie Pyle always seemedto be there when the

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action was toughest, thoughwithour any paradeof heroics. EnteringCherbourg, the correspondentsfound everything superficially calm,when suddenly ^ shellhit a tank only a few yards from them. \Ufhenthe men in the streetstoppedrunningand went back, they found Ernie Pyle taking down the namesof those who hadcomeout of thetank.Bywayof explanation he said,"They seemed to know ffi,so I had to stick around." Ar, 48 PYRRHUS (319-272BC),king of Epirus in (306-272 BC).A daring nortltwesternGreece general, he was inuited by the Greekcities of Italy to helpthemagainstthegrowing southern might of Rome. He campaigned in ltaly and andwAskilled Sicily(250-27 5) withoutsuccess in a skirmish in the Peloponnesian town of Argos, struck on the headby o roof tile hurled by o womAn. from a housetop I ln 279 nc the invading Greekforcesunder Pyrrhus met and defeated the Romans at the battleof Asculumin Apulia.The engagement, however, manymen,someof his costPyrrhus One and all his baggage. closestassociates, the king on his of the Greekscongratulated victory, to which he replied,"Another such victoryand we areruined."Hencethe phrase "Pyrrhicvictory" for one that coststhe victor too high a price. Ar, -8 phiPYTHAGORAS (bornc.580BC), Greek losopher born on Samos. The geometrical theorem that stillbears his nameand thenotion of the "harmony of tbe spheres" werehis most important contributionsto science. I Seeing a puppy beingbeatenone d^y, Pythagoras took pity, saying, "Stop, do not beat it; it is the soul of a friend which I recognized when I heardit cryingout."

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QUEENSBERRY, William Douglas, 4th Duke of (1724-18L0),British noblemanknown for the latter part of his life as "Old Q." 1 Old Q was entertainingat his villa in Richmond, which had a magnificent view of the Thames River. Guest after guest admired the panorama undl the duke burst out, "'$7hat is I am there to make so much of in the Thames? quite tired of it. Flow, flow, flow, always the
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QUESNAY, Fransois (I594-L774), French economist and physician. He was leader of the Physiocrats, a group of Enlightenment theorists who belieued in the parAmount importance of agriculture in the economy. -! Louis XV once asked Quesnay,who was originally the king's physician,what he would do if he were king. "Nothing," replied Quesnay. "But then, who would govern?" asked Louis. "The lawsr" was the response. As, qt QUIN, James(1693-1766), British actor. I tWilliam Warburton, bishop of Gloucester was holding forth about royal prerogative,oi which he was an ardent supporter. Quin tried to shut him up by asking him to sparehis feelings, as he was a republican. "Perhaps I even think that the execution of Charles I might have been iustified," he added. "Oh? By what law?" demandedWarburton. "By all the laws that he had left to the country," retorted Quin. The bishop replied that Charles would have beensparedin a proper court of law, and in any caseall the regicideshad come to violent ends. "l would not adviseyour lordship to make use of that inferenc,"said Quin, "for, if I am not mistaken, that was the case of the twelve apostles."

2 '$fith advancing years Old Q became very infirm and spent much of his time at the porch or bow window of his London house, overlooking Piccadilly. In those days great households included a class of retainer called a "running footmafrr" whose job was to run messagesand errands and to clear a way through crowds for their employers. Applicants for the post of running footman in Old had to run a kind of trial up Q" establishment Piccadilly, dressed in full ducal livery, while Old Q himself watched from his vantagepoint. One particular candidateran so speedilythat Old a shouted down in delight, "You'll do very well for me." "And your lordship" livery will do very well for me," replied the man, taking off at top speed,never to be seen again. At' 48

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RABELAIS, Fransois(?1494-1553) , French writer. By turns a Franciscan a friar, Benedictine monk, and a secularpriest, Rabelais also practicedas a physician.His Garganrua and published Pantagruel, at intentals from 1532, combinedobscene horseplay with satireon ecclesiastical institutions.This led to condemnation of his books by the theologians of the Sorbonne.His colorful writings doubtless encouraged theaccumulation of apocryphal anecdotesabout his life and death.
I On the way to Paris one d^y, Rabelais found himself stranded at a small country inn with no money to pay his bill or to continue his journey. So he made up three small packets, labeled them "Poison for the Kingr" "Poison for Monsieur," and "Poison for the Dauphin" and left them where the landlord of the inn was sure to find them. That patriotic citizen informed the police, who promptly arrested Rabelaisand hauled him off to Paris.When the packetswere examinedand found to be empty, Rabelais explained his subterfuge and was set free, having accomplished his journey at no expenseto himself. 2 A short time before Rabelaisdied, he put on a domino (cloak and mask) and was seen sitting by his bed in this unusual garb. Reproached for being so frivolous at this dark and serioushour, he quipped in Latinr"Benti qui in \ Domino morittntur" (Blessed are they who die tl lr in the Lord-or-in a domino).
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Uniuersity from 1.929,becoming professor there in 1937. He u)as awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize fo, physics. I Leo Szilard, anxiousto enlistother physicistsin determining whetherfission couldproduce the neutronsneededfor the release of energy, sentRabito see the greatEnricoFermi at his home. Rabi went, saw Fermi,and reportedto Szilard that Fermihad said,"Nuts!" Szilard,baffled, then accompaniedRabi to Fermi'sofficeand askedfor an explanation of "Nuts!" Fermiexplained that the possibility of a chain reactionresultingfrom the fissionof uraniumwas remote."'What do you meanby 'remote'?"askedRabi. "Well, ten percentr" said Fermi. Leo Szilardnever forgot Rabi's quiet reply to this statement: "Ten percentis not a remotepossibility if we may die of it." Ar, 48 RACHEL (1,820-58), French actress,born Ellsa Felix, the daughterof a Jewish peddler. From 1838she was the Comhdie-Franeaise's leadingtragedienne until her earb deathfrom tuberculosis.
I One of Rachel'snumerous lovers was Frangois d'Orleans,Prince de Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe. He sent her his visiting card on which he had written z "Ou? - quand?- when?- how much?) combien?" (Sfhere? Rachel, equally businesslike,scrawled: "Chez toi - ce soir- pour rien" (Your place- tonight - free of charge) and sent the card back. Their affair lasted for seven or eight years. 2 Becauseof her itinerant upbringing Rachel was virtually uneducated,and to the end of her life her letters remainedfull of errors in spelling and grammar. Rachel was quite aware of her

3 It is said that Rabelaismade the following will: "I owe much. I possess nothittg. I give the rest to the poor." Ar, 48 RABI, Isidor Isaac (1S98-1 988), US pbysicist, born in AustriA. He taught at Columbia

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I Arthur Rubinstein gave a dinner party in honor of Rachmaninoff,in the courseof which the composer mentioned that he thought the Grieg piano concerto the greatesteverwritten. Rubinstein said that he had just recorded it. Rachmaninoff insisted on hearing the recording then and there. During coffee, Rubinstein put on the proofs of the record and Rachmaninoff, closing his eyes,settled down to listen. He listened right through without saying a word. At the end of the concerto he openedhis eyesand said, "Piano out of tune." 2 Rachmaninoff, taken ill in the middle of a concert tour, was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles,where cancer was diagnosed.Knowing he was dying, the pianist looked at his hands and murmured, "My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands." 4., 48 RACINE, Jean (1639-99), French dramatist. His t)ersetragediesAre consideredthe finest examples of the French classical drama; they include Andromaque (1557), Berdnice (1670), and Phedre(1.677). I The actressMarie Champm0l6once asked, Racine from what source he had drawn his' religious drama Athalie. "From the Old Testamentr" he replieJ,-rrReally?" said the actress. "From the Old Testament?I always thought there was a new one." Ar, q8 RAFT, George (1895-1980), US fil* actor, famous for his sinister roles in gangstermouies. He had preuiously beena nightclub dancer and athlete. I George Raft acquired and disposed of about ten million dollars in rhe course of his career."Part of the loot went for gamblingr" h. I later explained, "part for horses, and part for I women. The rest I spent foolishly." I Al, -8 RAGLAN, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, lst Baron (1788-1855), British field marshal. He serued with distinction under the Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Wars and taas appointed commander in the Crimean War, for the conduct of which he endured much criticism. The raglan sleeuestyle is named for bim.

'When her for "ttn an admirer "begged failings. she replied, bel autographe" (a ryrpeetitograph), "[Jn bel autogy.qbi) Auecou sAnsorthographe?" (A nice autograph- with or without proper spelling?) 3 Despite her lack of education, Rachel excelled at the interpretation of the classical French heroinesin the tragediesof Racineand Corneille, restoring their playsto the repertoire of the Comedie-Frangaise.Someone once pompously congratulated her on saving the Sheanswered,"Clever of me, French language. isn't it, seeingthat I never learned it." 4 Rachel was notorious for her avadceand for her guile at persuadingpeople to give her presents.Dining at the Comte DuchAtel's,she pointedly admired the great silver centerpiece on the table. The count, completely under her spell, said he would be h"ppy to give it to her. Rachel accepted eagerly,but was a little nervous that the count might changehis mind. She mentioned that shehad come to the dinner in a cab. The count offered her his carriageto take her home. "lndeedr" said Rachel, "that will suit me very well, as there will then be no dangerof my beingrobbed of your gift, which I had better take with me." The count bowed. "'With pleasure," he said, "!g, you will send my carriageback, won't you?" 5 Rachel had presented Dumas filt with a ring. Fully aware of the actress'sreputation for requesting and acquiring gifts from her friends and acquaintances, Dumasimmediately slipped the ring back onto Rachel's finger: "Permit me, mademoiselle, to presentit to you in my turn so as to saveyou the embarrassment of asking for it." 6 Boasted Rachel after a successfulopening night: "Mon dieu! When I came our on the stage the audience simply sar there openmouthed." "Nonsense!" snapped a fellow actress. "They never all yawn at once." Ar, '.8 RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (L873-1943), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. After 1917 he liued mainly in the United States. He first achieuedfame as a pianist performing his own compositions.

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I At the : close cl ;eof the ba attl t Waterloo ffte of W4tt Raglan was stan standir ling besid e \\$(/ lingto when a ellington ,lbo bulletshatte ttered is right elb d his ow.. The T h earm i had to be amputate ated, :ior on n Raglan l rglanI bore with)z a noperat ( out a murm :mur, I ut as the r lir lim mb wasb beingtaken , but tD 'ied awayfor di dispo osal sal he cri e d out, ( ] t , tttDon't carry re t ken away thatI arm ll I hav :n off my ring." r till : tal ,ack The arm was bro I rought bac k, and and I Raglan rerine tlhat his wi trieved a ring ife had I giver siven him.
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2 At the outset of his career as courtier Ra- i leigh scratchedwith a diamond the following j words on a window of the royal palace:"Fain would I climb, yt fear I to fall." The queen,as he had intended, read the line. She completed the couplet: "lf thy heart fail thee, climb not at all." 3 Raleigh brought back tobacco from the i New World and introduced smoking to Britain. The novelty caused much comment and considerablediscussionpro and con. Raleigh was once enjoyinga pipe when his servant,seeing his master enveloped in clouds of smoke, thought that he must be on fire, and quickly emptied a bowl of water over Raleigh'shead. 4 (John Aubrey recounts an incident that led to Raleigh's temporary loss of favor with Queen Elizabeth.) "He loved a wench well; and one time getting one of the Maids of Honour up againsta tree in a wood ('twas his first lady) who seemed at first boarding to be something fearful of her 'Sweet honour, and modest, she cried, Sir \falter, what do you me ask? \fill you undo SweetSir Walter! Sir me?Nry, sweetSir:!$Talter! '$Talter!' At last,'asthe danger and the pleasure at the same time grew higher, she cried in the 'SWisser Swatter, SwisserSwatter!' She ecstasy, proved'"with child, and I doubt not but this hero'took care of them both, as also that the product was more than an ordinary mortal." 5 Like his father, Raleigh's eldest son and namesakewas quick-tempered and a womanizer. At a dinner in great company young 'S7alter, sitting next to his father, beganto tell a discreditableanecdote,about how he had visited a whore and shehad refusedto lie with him because"your father lay with me but an hour ago." Incensed and embarrassed, Raleigh hit young Walter acrossthe face. The young man was wild, but not so wicked as to strike his father. So he turned to the man sitting on his other sideand hit him, sayingashe did so, "Box about; it will come to my father anon."

LouisHenri Maxence RAINIER III [Rainier Bertrand de Grimaldil (1923- ), prince "f Monaco.The twenty-sixthruling princeof the Houseof Grimaldi, in L955hemarriedus fil* star GraceKelb, who diedfollowinga cnracci' dentin 1982. a huge,porrr' I On a tour of the Astrodome, stadiumcoveringsomenine acresof land in' Houstotr, Texas,Prince Rainier was asked,' t "How would you like to havethe Astrodome in Monaco?" "Then we couldbe '| "Matrelousr"hereplied. ; the world's only indoor country."
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-16L8), English RALEIGH, Sir Walter (?1552 soldier, explorer, and writer. A fauorite of Queen Elizabeth I, he wls sent by her on antiuoyages to the New World. His uigorous Spanishopinions causedhis downfall under Spain. I whentheking wishedto appease James He was sentenced to death(1503),but the sento imprisonment. During tence uas commuted yearsin tbefug*gf Londonhe bis tuwlue wrotesome W," and begana history of the "The Pilgrimage") world.In 15L5hewasreleased to search for gold in SouthAmerica,but theexpeditionwasa caandon his returnthedeathsentence tastrophe of 1603wls carriedottt. I Although primarily a man of action, the. courtly Raleighexemplifiedthe ideal of the i gentleman. There is an old tradiRenaissance tion that he firstcaughtthe attentionof Queen Elizabethsometimein 1581 when she was walkingalonga muddy path. As shehesitated in front of a particularly largepuddle,Raleigh
sprang forward and, taking off his new plush cloak, laid it on the ground for his sovereignto : step upon.

favorite Raleigh 6 In his role as Elizabeth's was quick to seekbenefits and rewards.The queenoncerebukedhim mildly for his rapacity, saying,"When will you ceaseto be a beggar?"

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tidying up his room one dty when there camea knock ai the door. "Mr. Ramsey'snot here," she called."He's gone out." "Oh, ys, yes of courser" came the reply. "Thank you very much." Recognizingthe voice as that of her young lodger, the landladyopenedthe door in time to ,seeRamseydisappeararound the corner. 2 In New York one d"y, a local photographer had been trying for some time to take a picture of Ramsey,who was there on an official visit. Unable to think of any better way to attract the archbishop'sattentior, he finally called out in desperation: "Archie, would you turn your Turning his head,Ramheadthis woy, please?" sey politely corrected the American. "My name,sir, is not Archie," he saidwith a friendly smile. "lt's Mike." Ar, 48 RAPHAEL [Raffaello Sanzio] (1483-1 520), Italian artist and architect. He studied in Perugia with Perugino before mouing to Florence (1504)and then Rome (1508).He decorated the papal apartments in the Vatican with a celebrated series of frescoesand in 1514 was appointed to succeedBramante as architect of St. Peter's. I A couple of cardinals,watching Raphaelat annoyed the artwork on his Vatican frescoes, ist by keepingup a streamof ill-informed criticism. "The face of the apostle Paul is far too red," complainedone. "He blushesto seeinto whose hands the church has fallen," said Raphael.

"'When you cease to be a benefactress, ma'am," replied Raleigh. of death on Raleighwas con7 The sentence firmed on October 28, L6I8, with the execution set for the following morning. As Raleigh was led back to prison from the tribunal at Sir \ilestminster, he spied an old acquaintance, Hugh Beeston, whom he greeted cheerfully. "You will come tomorrow?" he askedBeeston. "But I do not know how you will manageto get a place. For my own part I am sure of one, but you will have to shift for yourself." 8 Raleigh's courage and dignity on the scaffold were part of the legend that grew up around him as a martyr to the unpopulat proSpanishpolicy of James I. He tested the ax's edge, saying,"lt is a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills." As he laid his head on the block, someone protested that it should be placedso that his headshould point toward the east. "'What matter how the head lie, so the heart be right?" said Raleigh. As, ..8 RAMANUJAN, Srinivasa(1887-1920), Indian mathematician. He uisited England (1914-19), but fell iil and died soon after returning to India. The Cambridgt mathematician G. H. Hardy edited and published after his death most of his profoundly original work. 1 (J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician who collaborated with Hardy, recounts a conversation with Ramanujan.) "l rememberonce going to seehim when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxicab number 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I 'Nor' hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. 'it he replied, is a very interestingnumber; it is the smallestnumber expressible as the sum of yd two cubes in two different ways."' A* a8 RAMSEY, [Arthur] Michael (1904- ), AnglicAnprelate.Ordained in L928,he was bishop of of York (1956Durham (1952-56),archbishop 61),and archbishopof Canterbury 095L-74). I Even as a curate, Ramsey was renowned His landlady was for his absentmindedness.

6., ..6 Thomas Frangois RAYNAL, AbbeGuillaume (I7 I3-9 6), Frenchhistorian. 1 The Abbe Raynaland the Abbe Galiani were both incessant A friend decided talkers. himself to amuse by invitingthemtogether to a gathering at hishouse. AbbeGalianiseized the firstopening andtook overtheconversation so completelythat' no one, not eventhe Abbe Raynal,could get a word in edgewise. After listening in growingfrustration,Raynal turned to his host and muttered,"S'il crache, il est pgrdu" (lf he spits,he'slost).

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Fanny Ronalds was a nineteenth-century society beauty and singer. Leonard Jerome, a I7all Street magnate,was one of her most ardent admirers, financing her performances as a singer and being frequently seen out driving with her. At a ball she came unexpectedly face to face with Jerome's wife, Clara. As Mrs. Ronalds held out her hand, the spectators held their breath, wondering how Mrs. Jerome would react to meeting the lady with whom her husband's name was so publicly linked. Mrs. Jerome took her rival's hand and said,"I don't blameyou. I know how irresistiblehe is."

I During a student demonstration in th. \ 1950s Reagan's limousine washemmed in by i " j crowd of chanting demonstrators wavingplacards.The demonstrators were chanting,"'S7e d arethe future." Reagan scribbled on a pieceof f paperand held it up to the window so they I could readthe words:"l'll sellmy bonds." )
2 In March 1,981, a would-be assassin fired" severalshots at the president and his party as hotel. Reagan they left a'$Tashington was taken to the hospital with a seriouschestwound that needed emergencysurgery.As he was wheeled i into the operating,theater he smiled, looked around at the team of surgeons, and said, "Please assure me that you are all Republi- { cans!" 3 Severalother men were wounded in the attempt. The president asked to assassination Told that it be kept informed of their progress. was good, he exclaimed, "That's great news. We'll have to get four bedpans and have a reunion.tt 4 Even the Democrats were impressed by Reagan's first televisedbudget speech, in which he used a handful of small change to illustrate the current value of the dollar. "lt takes an actor to do that," admitted one of his rivals. "Carter would have emphasizedall the wrong words. Ford would havefumbled and dropped the cash.Nixon would have pocketed it." 5 On April 5, 1984, Reagan ended a foreign policy address at Georgetown University by recalling his entranceto a recent state dinner for Francois Mitterrand: "Mrs. Mitterrand and I startedthrough the tables,the butler leadingus , through the people,and suddenlyMrs. Mitterrand stopped. She calmly turned her head and said something to me in French, which unfor- : tunately I did not understand.And the butler was motioning for us to come ofl, and I motioned to her that we should go forward, that we were to go to the other side of the room. And again,verycalmly, shemade her statement
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- Anita Leslie, The Remarkable Mr. lerome

READING, Stella, Marchioness of (18941971), British political fig,rrt, secretaryto Lord Reading, whom she marcied in 1931. I Shortly after their marriage the Readings visited Lloyd George in the hospital, where he was recoveringfrom a prostate operation. Only Lord Reading was admitted to the patient's room, the doctor insisting that he stay ho longer than ten minutes.At the end of that time the doctor reluctantly agreedto an extension. As he was about to enter the room to turn Lord Reading out, he remarked pleasantly to a woman he did not know who happenedto be standing in the corridor, "l think they ought to break it off now, don't you? In any case,Lord is he?" To this the Reading isn't ye-ry_919iting, woman replied, "'lVell, he is my husband,and I have only been married to him a fortnight." At this time she was thirty-seven, he seventy. Aro '.5 REAGAN, Ronald (191,1- ), US film actor and politician; 40th president of tbe United States (1951-59). He won fame as a mouie Actor, particularly in low-budget Westerns, before mouing on to politics in his later yenrs. An ultra-conseruntiue Republican, he was gouernor of California (1.966-74) .

An interpreter finally explained to Mr. Reagan that Madame Mitterrand was telling him he was standing on her gown. Aro ..6

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young actor lost his nerrreand dried up. "You don't reply . o . you don't replyr" came a hoarsewhisper from the wings. "How the hell can Ir" retorted the young actor impatiently, "when I don't know what to say?" As, q8 REINHARDT, Max (1873-1943),Austrian theater director of Jewish parentage. He wls noted for his lauish productions, of which the most famous was The Miracle (1911). I A clever young man was instructing Rein"No hardt in the art ofproducing Shakespeare: no gorgeousscenery,just simlavish spectacle, ple black curtains; that's how it should be done. So much more aftistic." Reinhardt nodded. "Also much easierr"he said. As' e8 REISENAUER, Alfred (1863-1907), German pianist, a pupil of Liszt. 'l "Reisenauer . . had given a concert at the palace of some German princeling. The I next d^y, the Ho fmarschall came to his hotel grand duke and offered him behalf or of the , t the choice of eitherone thousandmarks or the ,Order of the Bear or the Falcon, or something i[ke that. 'What would they chargefor such a 'Oh, medal in shops?' I think asked the artist. ' ''Wellr' twenty marksr'replied the courtier. said 1Reisenauer,'l will accept the medal and nine ; hundred and eighty marks."' As, e8 RENOIR, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919), Frencb Impressionist painter. He exhibited at the first three Impressionist exhibitions and had a profound influence on the mouement, though be himself more or lessabandoned it after 1882. He spent the last years of his life in the south of France, where he painted many of his famous nudes. 1 Renoir was once askedhow he managedto produce such natural flesh tints and shapely forms in his nude paintings."I just keep painting till I feel like pinching," he replied. "Then I know it's right." 2 Renoir When both were in their seventies, views Aristide Maillol exchanged sculptor Ftd -bnart. Maillol said,"My ambition is to be able

REED, Thomas Brackett (1839-1'902),US statesman.A lawyer by profession,Reedwas a Republican member of the House of Representatiues (1577-99) and twice setaedas Speaker ( 1 5 8 9 - 9 L ,1 , 8 9 5 - 9 9 ) . ' Reedwas chatting with lawyer and ! Speaker diplomat Joseph H. Choate and a senator of the time. Choate said pompously r "l have not drunk whiskey, played cardsfor money, or attended a horse racein twenty-eightyears."The senator said admiringly, "l wish I could say ,that!" RemarkedReed:o'Well,why don't you? ,Choatesaid it." 2 In the course of debate when Reed was William M. Springerof Illinois quoted Speaker, Henry Clay'sfamous"l had rather be right than be president." In an undertone Reed interjected, "The gentlemanneed not worry, for he will never be either." 6s, q8 German comREGER, Max (1,873-1916), poser and organist. I After playing the piano part in Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, Max Regerreceiveda basket of trout from an admirer. Regerwrote to thank the sender, mentioning casuallythat his next concert program was to include Haydn's "Minuet of the Ox," 2 After receivinga bad review from Munich critic Rudolf Louis, Regerwrote to him: "I am sitting in the smallestroom of my house.I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me." {This responseto adversecriticism has been attributed to severalpeople. Shall we call it derri0re-pens,Ae?) As' '48 born REHAN, Ada (1850-L91,5), US actress, in lreland. She excelled in comic roles, and worked with Augustin Daly" company in New York from 1879 to L899. I Miss Rehan was playing opposite an inexperiencedyoung actor in a romantic comedy. During one scenethe young hero asksthe herto consider oine a vital questionand shepauses her answer. The hero's next line should have been: "You don't replyr" but at this point the

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the figure." I "And miner" said Renoir, "is to be ableto I I paint a white napkin."
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magnificently, 3 Renoir continuedpaintinB, after he wascrippledby arthritis;the for years brush had to be strappedto his arm. "You don't needyour handto paintr" he said. so old and crippled, Renoir became 4 \il7hen that he could not hold a brush,he took to ; modelingnudesin clay for his own entertainwhy i asked Rodin,the sculptor, ment.Auguste genRenoirreplied hedid not stickto painting. , 1 paint-Imustdo something tly, "I amtoo old t-o easier." 6ro e8 (?1855-1950), USessayist. REPPLIER,Agnes Her writings includePoints of View (1891), of (191.2), andln Pursuit ind Others Americans er (1936). Laught I A youngvisitorwasaboutto takeherleave from onefoot to the Shifting of Miis Repplier. up her hat and muff, put other, she-picked to be appeared themdownlgain, andgenerally "Therewassomething in a stateof distraction. I meantto say,"shefinallyadmitted,"but I've forgottenwhat it was." Miss Rep"Perhaps,my dearr"suggested plier,"it wasgood-by.." A*c8 REUTHER, Walter (1907-70),US labor presiheadof theUnitedAutoWorkers, Ieader, of lndustrial Organiza' dent of the Congress tions. I Reuther once visited an auto factory in talkedon and on A youngmanager Cleveland. they had for automating about a new process highlyrobotized, the line.It would be,he said, and it would work far more efficientlyand than the currentline. On and on he cheaply the glory of the robots. went, describing "And tell me," Reutherfinally interrupted, "thesewonderful new robots- will they go out and buy carsfrom your company?"
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Fanny Ronalds crowned her artistic and social triumphs by giving a grand ball to which only the cream of New York socidressin her ety was invited. The hostess's role as the spirit of music was one of the highlights of an evening in which no expense was spared. Some twenty years later two of Mrs. Ronalds's most devoted beaux were recalling those days. "Do you remember Fanny's celebrated ball?" LeonardJeromeaskedAugust Belmont. "I most certainly dor" Belmont re- 14

t plied."After all, I paidfor it." Therewas "\fhy, how verystrange,"i a slightpause. "So did I." saidJerome. - Anita Leslie, Mr. lerome The Remarkable

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(1723-92), English REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua portrait painter, first presidentof the Royal Academy(1758). His many portraits include thoseof Samuel ]ohnson,EdmundBurke,and Dauid Garrick;he wasalsonotedfor his paintingsof children. wasout painter RobertBarber 1 TheScottish He noon Calton Hill, Edinburgh. sketching by the prevailing ticed a curiouseffectcaused it wasasif the entire conditions: atmospheric Inspired within a cylinder" viewwerecontained this effectartistiwith the ideaof reproducing cally, he made a model of a panoramaand showedit to Reynolds.The greatartist was If Barberwere ableto put his idea skeptical. he would getout saidSirJoshua, into practice, of his bedin the middleof the nightto seethe persevered andsetup hisfirst Barber outcome. LonSquare) in Leicester panorama in a house own residence. don, not far from SirJoshua's He arrived to out hispromise. carried Reynolds wearinghis dressing-gown view the panorama and slippers. Ar, 48 AfSoutb RHODES, CecilJohn(1S53-1,902), birth, Of English andfinancier. ricanstatesman Rhodesemigratedto South Africa for health and madea uastfortunefrom gold and reasons diamond mining. As prime minister of the Britain's heexpanded CapeColony(1890-96),

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I During the 1,944\7orld SeriesGranny arrived at the Sportsman'sPark in St. Louis to discoverhe had brought the wrong ticket with him. Resigninghimself to missing the start of the game, the celebratedsportswriter was on the point of going back to his hotel to ger the proper ticket when Frank Graham came over to him and, on learning of Granny's predicament, led him promptly toward the gateman. "This is Grantland Rice behind me," Graham declared."He hasthe wrong ticket." The gateman beamed at Granny and ushered him in with great deference.When the pair reached the pressbox Graham made a similar inrroduction and the gateman there was equally welcoming. "Frankie, you are maroelousr"Granny said as they took their seats."How did you managethat?" Al, q$ RICH, John (1925director. and frl* ), US teleuision

colonial territories in southern Africa, but ouerreachedhimself with the Jameson Raid (1595) against the Dutch settlers (Boers) led by Paul Kruger. The open hostility that thus resultedled to the Boer'War (1899-1902). Under Rhodes's will part of his fortune was used to endow Rhodes scholarships. I Rhodes was a stickler for correct dressand behavior, but not at the expenseof someone else's feelings. A young man invited to dine with him in Kimberley arrived by train and had to go directly to Rhodes'shouse in his travelstained clothes. Here he was appalled to find the other guests already assembled,wearing full eveningdress.Feelingvery uncomfortable, he waited with the rest of the companyfor their hgst to appear.After what seemeda long rime, Rhodes finally appeared,in a shabby old blue suit. The young man later learnedthat when he arrived Rhodes had been dressed in evening clothes and was about to welcome his guests. Told of the traveler'sdilemma, Rhodeshad at once returned to his room and put on an old suit. 2 \fhen asked why he had come ro South Africa, Rhodes replied that there was some truth in the reasons his friends usuallyascribed to him - love of adventure or on account of his health. But, he confided, "The real fact is that I could no longer stand English eternal cold mutton." 3 Rhodes died from heart diseaseat a low ebb in his fortunes, beserby personalscandals and discreditedby the tragedy ofthe Boer'War, which his own misjudgmentsand policies had helped to foment. Lewis Michell, who was ar his bedsidein Rhodes'scotrageat Muizenberg, near Cape Town, heard the dying man murmur, "So little done, so much to do." 4 The distribution of Rhodes'svasr forrune under the terms of his will, with much of the money directed toward the setting up of the Rhodes scholarships, causedsome resentment in the immediate family. "'Well, there it is," said his brother Arthur. "It seemsto me I shall have to win a scholarship." Ar, 48 RICE, Grantland (1880-19 54), much-loued US sportswriter, known as "Granny" to his friends.

| \Torking on a Western film, Rich was having difficulty with a particular ourdoor shor. Each affempt was marred by extraneous noise - traffic passing, dogs barking, jets flying verhead.A passerby had sroppedto watch the lming. "tilfhy do you persist in shooring the e scene so many times?" she asked. The :xasperatedRich replied: "Madaffi, have you topped to consider how many cinemasthere

e in this counrry?"
A$ e8 RICHARD I (1157-99), king of England (1189-99), known as Richard Coeur de Lion (the Lionheart). He spent most of his reign cnmpaigning abroad as one of the most successful leadersof the Tbird Crusade. Held prisoner by Fmperor Henry Vl in Austria on his way home, he was releasedonly on payment of a huge rAnsom (1194). I \fhen Richard was captured by the Austrians, it was some time before anyone in England discovered where he was. A minstrel called Blondel searched for his masrer throughout Europe in vain. Returning home through Aust riarhowever, he learned that in an ancient stronghold near Linz there was a closelyguardedprisonerwhose identity no one knew. Blondel, suspectingthe mysteriouscaptive was his master, went to the castle but was

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unable to catch a glimpse of the prisoner. He eventuallylocated a tiny barred window, high up on the castlewall, which he thought was the prisoner's cell. Under this window he sangthe first couplet of a troubadour's song, the first part of which had been composed by himself and the secondby Richard. From the window a voice responded with the second p"ft, and Blondel knew that he had found his master. {According to one tradition Blondel then took employment at the fortress,gained to Rich ardrandwas the messenger access through whom Richard arranged the raising of his ransom with the English nobility. There is, however, no reliable source for any part of the story.) 2 Richard I was once warned by an eminent punishedby preacherthat he would be severely God if he did not soon marry off his three daughters.The king protested that he had no daughters,to which the priest replied, "Your Majisty has three - ambition, avarice, ald luxury. Get rid of them as fast as possible,else assuredly some great misfortune will be the consequence." "If it must be so," replied Richard contemptuously, "then I give my ambition to the templars, my avarice to the monks, and my luxury to the prelates." As, q4 RICHARDSON, Sir Ralph (1902-84), British actor. He enioyed considerablesuccessin a rolesand in numerous uariety of Shakespearean films. 1 In l, 91g the young Richardson was an of- n fice boy for an insurancecompany in Brighton. To relieve the tedium of the iob, he decided : one d^y to see if he could walk around the building on a narrow ledge several stories : above t-h. street, He had -."nt to time this exploit to coincide with his boss's absence from the office, but unfortunately as he was : edginghis way past the boss'swindow, the man himself entered the room and froze. Richard- r son gave him a cheery wave and called, "I was i i chasinga pigeon." 2 Ralph Richardsonseemeddestinedto have bad luck at the home of his friends, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. At a housewarming for the couple's first home in Chelsea,

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Richardson brought along some fireworks to set off in the tiny backyard in celebration. He lit the first (and largest) one, but instead of soaring into the London skies,it shot straight through the open patio windows into the dining room, burned up the curtains, and set the cornic e ablaze.Vivien Leigh was not amused. Some years later, Richardson and his wife were invited to the Oliviers' new home, Notley Abbey. Recallingthe disasterof the fireworks, they promised each other to be exceedingly careful. All went well at first. After dinner, Olivier mentioned that the medievalmonks who had owned the abbey had left some interesting paintingson the roof beams;would anyonelike to seethem?The ladiesdeclined, but Richardson and Olivier, armed with flashlights, went up to the attics.A few minutes later there came an anguished. cry ryd a fearful crash. The women rushed upstairs to find Richardson on the bed in the main guestrooffi, dust and plaster everywhere,and a iaggedhole in the ceiling. In his enthusiasmover the paintings,Richardson had not noticed that the attic floor was unboarded, had stepped backward from a nfter, and, like the firework through the patio door, shot straight down through the ceiling. Aco .td RIC HELIEU, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de (1766-1822), French statesman.Taking refugefrom the French Reuolution in Russia,he became a successfuladministrator in Odessa (1503-14). He returnedto ioin Louis XVIII in France, but after Napoleon's escapefrom Elba reioined the Russian atmy, attempting to influence euents in fauor of tbe French monarchy duringthe Congressof ViennA. In 1815 he succeededTalleyrandas prime minister and helped to relieue France of the burdens it had suffered after the defeat of Napoleon. I Married at fifteen to a deformed girl three yearshis junior, Richelieu never had more than a formal relationship with his wife. The duchess inevitably sought her consolation elsewhere. Coming upon her in flagrante delicto, Richelieu rebuked her: "Madaffi, you must really be more careful. .Stppg:.e it had been someone elsewho found you like this." were planning a\ 2 Richelieuand his officers campaign."'We shall cross the river at this j

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US RILEY, JamesWhitcomb (1,849-1915), uersifier,known As the "Hoosier poet." His works includeRhymesof Childhood (1890) and The Little Orfant Annie Book (1908). landladytold the poet I Riley's\ilTashington cook. i oned^y of the sadfateof herneighbor's Havingworked for the family for manyyears, ' the unfortunatewomanhad fallenasleep over ' An appropriate herstoveand burnedto death. epitaph sprangimmediatelyto Riley's lips: i"\Ufelldone,good and faithful servant." 4., ..S RIVAROL, Antoinede (I7 53-1801), French writer and wit. I A bitter andmerciless critic of others, who had himselfproducednothing,was attacking his usualtargets. Rivarolsaidto him, "lt is a greatadvantage produced to have nothing,but you mustnot abuse it." 2 Someone Rivarol's asked opinionof a coupletproduced by a mediocre poet."Very good, but it has its longueulrs," wasthe response. 4., ..6 RIVERA, Antonio (died 1936), Spanish Nationalisthero,known as "the Angelof theAlcdzLr." I Antonio Rivera, son of a formermayorof Toledo,took refuge with orherNationalisrs in the Alcazar in the summer of 1936ar the srarr of the famoussiegeduring the Spanish Civil '$Var. As a pacifist, the youth refused at first to help defendthe ancienrsrronghold, and was put on latrineduty. When the situationof rhe besieged became more desperate, he decided that it would not be inconsistent with hisprinciplesto aid in the defense, providedthat he did not kill in hatred. He wasassigned theposition of loaderto a heavy machine gun. It was saidthat he would give the signalto fire with the words: "Tirad-pero sin odio" (Firewithout hatred). was {Just nine days before the Arlcilzar relieved, a grenade shattered Antonio's arm. The limb had ro be ampurated 'lil7hen without benefitof anesrhedc. the Nationalist forces relievedthe Alcilza4 Antonio wascarriedwith greathonor to

pointr" said one of the officers, placing his finger on the map. "Excellent, sirr" remarked Richelieu, "but your finger is not a bridge." 3 \7hen Richelieu learned an old, rich, and had died the stupid widow of his acquaintance previous day, his only comment was, "'What a pity! Shewould have been a fine catch the day before that." 4., q8 RICHTER, Hans (1843-191,6),Hungarian conductor. He was famous for his interpretation of the works of Wagner and Brahms, and for some time led the Halle Orchestra in England. I An orchestraplayer who had yearnedto try his hand at conducting finally reahzedhis ambition. As he left the podium, he obseryedto Richter, "You know, this conducting business is really very straightfonvard." "Ssh!" said Richter. "l b.g you, don't give us away!" 2 Once, with Richter conducring Dvoiik's Ninth Symphony, the cymbal player miscounted the barsin the finaleand camein at the wrong place.The conductor fixed a furious eye upon the delinquent and glowered at him for the remainder of the piece. At the end of the concert he fired the man. A couple of days later, rehearsingthe same symphotrI, Richter stopped the orchestra rwo bars before the fateful spot and muftered ominously, "Is he sdll alive, do you think?" 3 Richter once lost his temper (and, remporarily, his command of the English language) with an incompetenr second flutist at Covent Garden. "Your damned nonsensecan I stand twice or oncer" he roared, "but sometimes always,by God, never." A!, q8 RIGAUD, painter. Hyacinthe (1659-1743), French

I A heavily made-up lady was having her portrait painted by Rigaud. She complained rhat his colors were much too bright. "'We buy them at the sameshop, madamer" retorted the artist.

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a YankeegameRiz| "\ilfhile broadcasting zuto wasinformedthat PopePaulVI haddied. on the airr'Well,that kind of He commented win."' puts the damperon evena Yankee Ar, 48 ROBERT I [Robertthe Bruce](1274-1329), king of Scotland(1305-29).Unableat first to of maintainhis kingdomagdinstthe incursions his powerful neighbor,Edward I of England, Robertwentually won a crushinguictory ouer the English under Eduard II at the banle of consoliHe subsequently Bannoikburn(1314).

a different ,uU-\ time he had wantedto choose ject.He went on, "But I assure you that I haveI placed in a completely secluded spot I thefigures any I encounter so that theywould not possibly from curiousonlookers." observation I Ar, ..6 -1 935), ROBINSON, EdwinArlington(1869 prizes IJSpoet.He won seueral Pulitzer for bis poetry,of which he published a numberof uolRooseuelt. He wasa prothg|of Theodore ,tmes. hissummers at the to spend used I Robinson New MacDowellColony nearPeterborough, onemorning, Arrivingat breakfast Hampshire. he found the writer Nancy Byrd Turner and a at his seated newmember of thecolonyalready table. "This is Mr. Robinson," said Nancy Byrd Turner to her companion."Robinson! - not theMr. Robinson?" Not E.A. Robinson gushedthe other woman. There followed a long, uncomfortablepause,then Robinson said,"A Mr. Robinson." RooseTheodore 2 In 1905oneof President velt'ssonsbroughtto his father'sattentiona book of poemsby Robinson,The Childrenof in the created Roosevelt the Nigh/.Impressed, for the New York CustomHousea sinecure you to think poet."I expect virtuallydestitute hetold Robsecondr" poetryfirstandcustoms insonwhenhe took up the post. only to openhis wasrequired tRobinson close desk,readthe morningnewspaper, on his the newspaper his desk,and leave chair as proof that he had turned up at the office.This lastedfour years,during himself established whichtimeRobinson president' Taft became as a poet. \$(Ihen would have andintimatedthat Robinson to put in a full day'swork, the poet resigned.) Ar' 48 US baseball ROBINSON, Jackie(L9L9-72), player.In 1947,asthefirst blackto play-ftaj_o2 h reb ieqtguo with the I On the dry of his first appearance hiswife goodbye at Robinson kissed Dodgers, their hotel before settingout. "If you come down to EbbetsField today," he said, "yo,t me." He won't haveany trouble recognizing

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andlegends I Therearemanypopularstories about Robert the Bruceand his daringdeeds One, made againstthe English oppressors. the period fimous by \WalterScott, concerns when Robert the Brucewas on the run from and the troops of EdwardI. Hiding in a cave, uncerand despondency deep from suffering tainty as to what he ought to do next, he its web, trying watcheda smallspiderspinning and failing time and time againto secureit properly.The fugitive king read the spider's asa parable success andits eventual perJistence -for by his : he mustnot be discouraged himself failures,but go out and continuethe struggle of his country. the liberation until he achieved 6ro '.8 ROBERT, Iropold (1794-1835)' Swiss painter and etcher.From 1818 to 1832 be workedin Rome,wlterehe became famousfor his picturesof ltalian daily life. He killed himloue. selfout of unrequited I Lopold Robert, brought up in a piou{ washimselfhighlymoral.In 18271 household, however,he painted two pictures,entitle{ Tuto Girls Disrobingfor Tbeir Bath, that of'l fendedby their "freedom." Robert defende{ himselfby sayingthat, althoughordinarilyal{ wereclothedfrom headto foot, thisl his figures

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fero francs per line - not white spaces." As, ".8

paused for a moment, then added, "My number's 42." Ao' q8 ROCHE, Sir Boyle (1743-1807), Irish politician. I Sir Boyle Roche was well known in Parliament and beyond for his extraordinary"bullsr" or lrishisms,someof which arepreseryed in the records of parliamentaryproceedings.He was an ardent advocate of tlie union of England and Ireland in 1800 and declaredthat his love for the two countries was so great that he would like to see"rhe two sistersembracelike one brother." 2 John Philpot Curran took the opposite view to Roche's on the union of England and Ireland, and they often clashedin parliamentary debateson the subject. Replying to some aspersioo,Curran proclaimed that he needed no help from anyone but was well able to be "the guardian of my own honor." "lndeedr" commented Sir Boyle Roche, "why, I always thought the right honorable member was an enemy to sinecures." As' q8 ROCHEFORT, [Victor] Henri, Marquis de Rochefort-Lu eay(1830- 1913),Frenchiournalist. His tumultuous life as a radical iournalist inuolued a series of duels and seueral prison sentences. In the 1890s he was a leader of the anti-Dreyfusards. I On one occasionwhen Rochefort had been arrested,the authorities confronted him with evidenceof his links with inrernationalrevolutionaries. "In one of your drawerswere found two photographs of Garibaldi and Mazzini with their autographs." "That is truer" said Rochefort, "for those two great patriots did send me their photos." "But that is not allr" went on the interrogator, "for there were also seizedseveral pictuies of Henri Rochefort." Somewhat baffled, Rochefort said, "Bur I am Henri Rochefort." "l am not denying that," said the interrogator, "but it is nonethelesssignificantthat you should have so many portraits of thar nororious socialistin your house."

ROCKEFELLER,JohnD[avisonJ, Sr.(1,839I937),US oil magnate andphilanthropist. President of the StandardOil Company,he was a dominantfigrrrt in the oil business until his retirement in 1911. He established four charitable foundations.
I Rockefeller found our that his family had ordered an electric car as his surprisebirthday present, to enable him to get around his vast estatemore easily."lf it's all the sameto you,"

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6s' q8 ROCKEFELLER,JohnD[avisonJ, Jr. (15741960),US capitalistand philanthropist,son of kefeller,Sr.He was inuolued with John D. Roc his father's oil-trade interestsand charitable foundationsand plannedand financedthe Rockefeller Centerin New York.
I Rockefelleronce madea collect call from r\ goin box, which failed to refund the money he I had put in. He called up the operaror, who I asked for his name and addresi so that the I money could be mailed ro him. Rockefcller I began: "My p.m9 isJohn D. . . .Oh, fcrget it; I you wouldn't believeme any\l/ay." As' a8 ROCKEFELLER, William (1841-tgZZ), brother of ]ohn D. Rockefeller, Sr. William helped to run Standard Oil and to deuelop the company's influence upon the oil market. I The growing Rockefeller empire attracted the attention of the courts owing to concern over the dangers of monopolies.When William Rockefeller was required to appearin court, he decided that his best defensewould lie in the refrain, "l decline to answer on the advice of counsel," as the following exchangeshows: "On the ground that the answerwill incriminate you?" "I decline to answeron the adviceof counsel.tt

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y USorchesRODZINSKI, Artur (L892-1958), conductorof the New York Philhar- \ tra leader, monic(1943-47). j Rodzinski noticedthat there \ I On a vacation con- i of an open-air wasto bea radiobroadcast andthat the I Sevitzky by Fabien certconducted own spe- | oneof Rodzinski's program included TunSymphony. Fifth Shostakovich's cialties, ing in shortly after the concert had begpn, with '1 rendering to Sevitzky's listened Rodzinski t the respect. "How *.tt he sustaiis increasing "Listen to that balance! \ line!" he"murmured. And he \ He musthavestudiedmy recording." an i that he had doneSevitzky endedby saying injustice,that he had alwaysthought that he I had no talent but that really he was a gre^t 1 inAt the endof the-performance, conductor. I therewasa mo- I applause of the expected stead otr, I came Thenthe announcer mentof silence. out and I rained hadbeen thattheconcert saying of ,| a recording inits f,h.. the stationhadplayed by Artur Rod' ' Fifth conducted Shostakovich's zinski.
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Ar, e4 US RODGERS, RichardCharles(1902-79), with Lorenz Hart He collaborated composer. and PalJoey(1940) onThe Girl Friend(1925) II onOklahoma! Hammerstein Oscar andwith (1943) and The Kingand | (1951). collaboratorsLarry Hart I Dick Rodgers's lyric II werefirst-rate and OscarHammerstein how theydiffered. writers.He wasoften asked It should be mentionedthat Hart was a very short man, about five feet three inches; taller;and Ht-: himselfa few inches Rodgers I "'W'hen metsleinover six feet.SaidRodgers, us recognized worked with Larry and people 'The little fellow they'd sxY, walkingtogether, is oka/ but watch out for the big son-of-aandam recbitch.'Now, whenI'm with Oscar 'The big ggy is okay,bu! peoplesay, ognized, And wltch out for the little son-of-a-bitch.' with working between difference the that's Larryand working with Oscar."
2 Rodgerscomposed the score for the musicalCbee-Chrr,the story of which is basedupon a novel by CharlesPettit ,The S?n of the Grgryd Eunuch.Theplot hingesupon the efforts o.fthe hero to avoid being emasculatedin order to inherit his father's exalted office. At the point in the story at which the youth is taken away for the operation Rodgers inserted into the score a few bars from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. {Rodgers commented, "At almost every perfoimance there were two or three individuals with ears musically sharp , \ .nough to appreciatethe joke.")

ROGERS, Samuel (I763-1855), British usedhis Rogers writer. A bankerby profession, incomeand ready wit to gather. considerable literarycnd artistic aroundhim the mostselect TableTalk, edited his doy.His personalities of -after his death, fs particularb ualuedfor the contempoglimpsesit giuesof his celebrated rhries. of a marriage the approaching I Discussing lady whom they both knew, Lold Lansdowne that shehad madea good to Rogers observed match. "I'm not so surer" replied Rogers. "'Uilhynot? All her friends approveit," sai-d "Then sheis ableto satisfy Lord-Lansdowne. everyore ," said Rogers. "Her friends are are delighted." pleased and her enemies rePutationfor 2 Rogershad a considerable wit. Oncewhenaccused hisbitingandsarcastic he iustifiedhimselfby sayof beingill-natured, I have things. irg, "They tell meI sayill-natured things, a weakvoice;if I did not sayill-natured no one would hearwhat I said." 3 Rogershad a bare, polishedhead and a He and appearance. some*hat cadaverous

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474 "Dear Sirs,I guessyo"ri Rogers simplyrepli_ed, Your{ pianos against. arethe bestI everleaned truly, Will Rogers." I 4 Rogers, havingpaid too much incometax one year,tried in vain to claim a rebate.His numerous lettersand queries remained unanswered. Eventually the form for the nextyear's return arrived.In the sectionmarked "DEDUCTIONS," Rogerslisted: "Bad debt, US - $40,000." Government &s, eS ROLAND, Jeanne Manon (I7 54-93), wife of the Frenchstatesman JeanRoland(1734-93). protesters She andherhusband wereoutspoken againstroyal corruptionand inefficiency, but the reuolutionaryextremists euentuallysent Mme Rolandto theguillotine. At thenewsof his wife's deathher husbandcommittedsuicide. I Mme Roland's calmcourage in prisonand at her execution becamefamous. As she mounted the steps to theguillotine, shelooked toward the claystatueof Liberty serup in the Placede la Rvolutionand exclaim ed,"O libert6!O liberte!Que de crimeson commeten ton nom!" (Ohliberty!Oh liberty!til7hat crimes arecommittedin thy name!) As' 48 ROMANOFF, Mike [Harry F. Gergusonl (1890-1972), US restaurateur. He was h wellknown figrrt in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, claimingto be a Russian prince.
1 There were numerous Russian emigrCsin New York in the 1,920s, and someoneinvited the Grand Duke Dmitri of Russiaro meer his "kinsman." The grand duke looked at Mike Romanoff with deepsuspiciotr, then addressed Iti-. rpjdly- in Russian. The bogus prince headed for the exir, saying,"l donit think we should insult our hosts by talking in any languagebut theirs." 2 Another attempt to discountenance Romanoff was made by r young acror playingwith Romanoff in Frank Sinarra's Tony Rome in 1967. The actor addressed the restaurateurin fluent Russian,but was met by ^look of freezitg disdain. Afterward Romanoff complained, "The vulgarity of a srranger'sspeakingio me in

Lord Dudley once spent an hour or two exploring the catacombs in Paris. As they were leaving, the keeper caught sight of Rogers and rushed toward him with a look of horror, shouting, "No, no. You have no right to come out. Go back inside.Go back." Lord Dudley fled from the scene in paroxysms of laughter, leaving Rogers to extricate himself from the situation as best he might. \7hen Rogerslater taxed him for his desertiotr, he replied, "My dear Rogers, you looked so much at home I did not like to interfere." 4 A gathering of society leaderswas praising one of its absentmembers,a young duke who had recently come of age; they extolled his looks, his talents, his wealth, his prospects. . o . In a pausein the chorus of admftation the voice of Rogerscould be heard saying malevolently,"Thank God he has bad reerh!" Ar' 48 ROGERS, Will (1,879-1935), US comedian, who progressedfrom tbe uaudeuille stageto become an internationally known fil* actor and . humorist. His forte wAs political obsentations: { "/ don't make iokes; I iust watcb thi loueiand report tbe facf,s." \ment I One of the many legends about William Randolph Hearst's fabulous weekend houseparties at San Simeon concerns \fill Rogers. Throughout the weekend Hearst kept hilury amusing rhe resr of the company: A few days later Hearst received a large bill from Rogers for senrices as a professional entertainer. Hearst telephonedRogersto protest: "I didn't engageyou as an enteftainer. You were invited as a guest." Rogers retorted, "'W'hen someoneinvites me as a guest,they invite Mrs. Rogers as well. til(hen they ask me to come alone, I come as a professionalentertainer."

2 On a visit to Paris,Rogerssenta picture postcardof the Venusde Milo to his young niece.On the back he wrote: "Seewhat witl happento you if you don't srop biting your fingernails." is told of others.} {This anecdote
/ I I ) I Rogers had been asked by r firm of piano manufacturers to write a short testimonial for their instrumenrs. Unwilling ro endorse any product that he could nor pur ro the rest,

475 that tongue!We never spoke anything but French at court." 6., 48 (1S841962), ROOSEVELT, [Anna]Eleanor Franklin Delano lecturer, of wife and USwriter Her writings includeIt's Up to the Rooseuelt. of DeWomen (1933)and The Moral Basis mocra cy (1940). was I In her last yearsEleanorRoosevelt recognizedras well as probablythe mosteasily womanin theUnitedStates. the mostbeloved, wasstill quite At this periodracialintolerance marked. waswalkingoned^y on a crowdedstreet She in GreenwichVillage, New York, during a when a stationwagonbackedinto rainstorffi, her,knockingher down. Shegot up andwiththe driverto makeoff at ordered out hesitation torn, her ligaments Then, delay. oncewithout engageshehobbled off to her next speaking ment. The driver wasblack. A'' '-a'8 ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (18821945), US statesman;32d president of the (1933-45).Despitean attackof UnitedStates polio in 1921that left him paralyzed from the to end his public waist down and threatened gouer"nor of NeutYork became Rooseuelt career, to beelected Stateand the only IIS president for of Roosemeasures The economic four terrrrs. the countryto recouer uelt'sNew Deal enabled the 7930s.After the of Depression the from in bombingof Pearl Harbor by the Japanese euelt took the United Statesinto 1941, Roos tbe World'War II. He died in office iust before end of tbe wAr. to wasintroduced I Asa smallboyRoosevelt put hishandon Cleveland Cleveland. President the child'sheadandsaid,"I'm makinga strange no wish for you, little man,a wish I suppose one elsewould make.I wish for you that you of the UnitedStates." mayneverbe president
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to the idea of a woman's holding real power, had a stormy meetingwith the presidentabout ' the appointment. According to a Washington I story current at the time, Mrs. Rooseveltsym' pathizedwith her husband over the confrontation. "That's all rightr" he replied. "l'd rather have trouble with them for an hour than trouble with you for the rest of my life." 3 The novelist Fannie Hurst wanted to surprise FDR with the change in her appearance since she had been on a diet. She managedto slip unannouncedinto his office.The president looked up as sheentered,then gesturedfor her to turn around in front of him. When shecompleted the turn, he commented, "The Hurst may havechanged,but it's the sameold fanny." 4 Eleanor Roosevelt was particularly fond of In one week they appearedon the sweetbreads. rU7hiteHouse menu no fewer than six times. The president eventually complained in a note to hii wife: "I am getting to the point where my stomachrebels,and this does not help my relations with foreign powers. I bit two of them today." ,'5 The many detailswhich an inaugural committee must cope with in a short time inevitably produce a few mistakes.Thus FDR, in 1937, receivedan invitation to his own inauguration. i Through the r$fhite House social bureau he , solemnly sent word that the press of official ; businesswould keep him away. Then, relenti ing, he sent a further note in his own handwrit, ing: "I have rearranged my enagemgnls.and ' think I may be able to go. Will know definitely January19. F.D.R." 6 It is said that Roosevelt once made a telephone call to Joseph Stalin during the days of friendship between the United Statesand the Soviet Union. The call had to pass through a number of operators, but finally the connection was made. "Hello, Joe?" said Roosevelt. "It's Frank. Giants three, Dodgers nothittg." {Almost surely apocryphal but how one wishes it weren't!)
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Perkinsas secre- I Z Roosevelt found the polite small talk of 2 FDR appointedFrances rilThiteHouse somewhat taryof labor- the firstwomanto hold a cabiI social functions at the j men who of several heads the net office over i tedious. He maintained that those present on for the positionby labor i', such occasions rarely paid much attention to had beensuggested asalways i what was said to them. to illustrate the point, opposed The tradeunionists, leaders.

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tum " Speak softlyand carrya big stick." In his administration,US influence on Lptin America increased and control was established ouertbe Panama Canal.
I During his time asa rancher,Rooseveltand one of his cowpunchers,riding over the range, lassoeda maverick, a two-year-old steer that had neverbeenbranded.They lit a fire then and there and prepared the branding irons. The part of the range they were on was claimed by Gregor Lang, one of Roosevelt's neighbors. According to the rule among cattlemen the steer therefore belonged to Lang, having been found on his land. As the cowboy applied the brand, Roosevelt said, "'Wait, it should be Lang's brand, a thistle." "That's all right, boss," said the cowboy, continuing to apply the brand. "But you're putting on my brand." "That's right," said the man, "I always put on the boss'sbrand." "Drop that ironr" said Roosevelt, "and get back to the ranch and get out. I don't needyou anymore.t' The cowboy protested, but Roosevelt was adamant. "A man who will steal for me will steal from ffi," he declared. So the cowboy went, and the story spread all over the Badlands.

he would sometimesamusehimself by greeting i 2 S7hen the hotel in which Vice President guestswigh the words, "l murdered my grandI Roosevelt was staying caught fire, he was ormother this morning." The responsewas in- ! dered down to the lobby with the orher guests. variably one of polite approval. On one occa- / After some time, prevented from returning to sion, however,the presidenthappenedupon an { his room, he protested:"But I'm the vice presiattentive listetler.On hearingRoosevelt'sout- I dent!" rageous remark, the guest replied diplomati- { "Oh, that's differert," said the hotel official. cally, "I'm sure she had it coming to her." Then, as Teddy started up the stairs, "Wait a i 'What minute. are you vice preside {Maxwell Perkins,the distinguishededint of ?" i tor, pepperedhis own small talk similarly I "Why, of the United Stares, of course!" at literary gatherings.Evidently writers, "Then get the hell back down rhere. I I as well as politicians,don't listen to one I thought you were vice presidentof this hotel!" another.) | 3 Before retiring to bed, Roosevelt and his friend the naturalist tilTilliamBeebewould go ROOSEVELT, Theodore(185S-1919), US out and look at the skies,searchingfor a riny statesman; 25th presidentof the United States patch of light near the constellationof Pegasus. (1901-09).A sickly bo.y;Rooseuelt became a "That is the SpiralGalaxyin Andromeda," rhey toughand self-sufficient man who workedas a would chant. "lt is aslargeasour Milky \Vay. It rancher, went big-game hunting,and fought in is one of a hundred million galaxies. Ir consists the Spani;h-American War (1898).As presiof one hundred billion suns, each larger than dent, he centered his domesticpolicieson ltis our sun." Then Rooseveltwould turn to his Square Dealprogramto improuethelot of ordicompanion and soy,"Now I think we are small nary citizensand his foreignpolicy on the dicenough.Let's go to bed." 4 Some of Roosevelt's critics complainedof his tendencyto introduce moral issues in matters where none existed.Speakerof the House ThomasB. Reedonce told Roosevelt, "lf there is one thing more than another for which I admire you, Theodore, it is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments." 5 Shot in the chest in an assassination artempt in October L912, Rooseveltwas determined to carry on with the speechhe had been about to make."I will deliverthis speech or die, one or the otherr" he declared. {He gave the speechand after fifty minutes allowed himself to be taken to hospital for treatment.) 6 Shortly before he left the White House, Roosevelt,planning a big-gamehunting trip to Africa, heard that a famous white hunrer was visiting rilTashington. He invited the man ro come along and give him some advice.After a two-hour tte-i-tOtethe hunter came our of the president's office looking dazed. "'What did you tell the president?" someone asked idly. "My name," said the bemused visitor. "After that he did all the talking."

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477 ROOSEVELT, Theodore, Jr. (1887-1944), US soldier,explorer,and politician, the son of He sentedas a PresidentTheodoreRooseuelt. colonelin World'War I maior and lieutenant and as a brigadiergeneralin World War II. Betweenthe wars he led expeditionsto Asia (1925, 1928-29)and was gouernorof Puerto (1932and of the Philippines Rico(1929-32) 33). had arranged to meethis wife's I Roosevelt train. Arrivingat the railroadstationat the apto seethe train pointedtime,he wasdismayed His pastthe platformwithout stopping. speed from the rearcarrtossing wife wavedanxiously her husband. as she passed out an envelope with some Rooseveltretrievedthe envelope to readthe followdifficultyand wasamused stop "DearTed:Thistraindoesn't ingmessage: here." 4., .8 US lawyer and ROOT, Elihu (1S45-1937), of stateunder secretary He became statesman. and later was PresidentTheodoreRooseuelt senator for New York. He won the NobelPeace Prizein 191,2. Root a frail old man in his eighties, I rU7hen who Linowitz, M. Sol visited by frequently was usedto readto him. One dty Root askedthe youngmanwhat he wantedto do in life. LinoMaybebea rabbior "I'm not sure. witz replied, perhaps a lawyer."Root'sreplywasimmediate: z'Bea lawyer.A lawyer needstwice as much religionasa rabbi." {Linowitz took Root's adviceand belawyeranda roving camea distinguished in the Carter administraambassador tion.) A.' {S painter, (1" enFrench 833-98), ROPS,Fdlicien by illustratorof poems and lithographer; grauer, Mallarm1. Sthphane Vollard had occasion Ambroise I Art dealer to visit Rops a few yearsbeforethe painter's warned him: "I'm expectinga death. Rops 'S7hen the bell ringsthreetimes,you woman. must leaveby the other end of the studio." After sometime the bell rangaspredictedand behindhim as Glancing Vollard took hisleave. he closedthe door, he sawan old housemaid

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enterthe room. 'oCome now, monsieufr"she said,"it's time for your tisane"(herbal tea). As, .8 ROSENBLOOM, Max (1,904-76), US light boxer,world championin 1.930. heauyweight because of hisskill as I CalledSlapsie-Maxie gloriedin hisability a deft boxer,Rosenbloom without resortingto such to win decisions Onceone asactualknockdowns. crudetactics madecontact,and his beof his opengloves on the canvas. wildered opponentcollapsed Bellowed Maxie, "I7hy, you dirty doublerat!" crossing Al, ..6 Polish' ROSENTHAL, Moriz (1852-1946), born pianist. He studiedwith Liszt and was of Austria and tbe court pianist to the emperor He alsoplayedfor ten seaqueenof RumaniA. in the UnitedStates. sons
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stringquartet. ing a recitalgivenby mediocre "over,the second violinist was \7hen the ordeal to hearhisopinion. hurriedoverto themaestro "Excellentr" "How did you like it?" he asked. wasstill unsatisfied. The player lied Rosenthal. "And our tempi- did theysuityou?"he went "brillianton. "Brilliartr" said Rosenthal, yours." especially heard that pianistArtur 2 When Rosenthal had failed his physicalfor the army, Schnabel No fingers!" he said,"What did you expect? to others attributed is also remark {This about others.) to a child prodigy, 3 Coercedinto listening Rosenthalasked the boy how old he was. saidthe child. "Sevenr" "What areyou goingto play for me?" sir." concerto, "The Tchaikovsky "Too old!" saidRosenthal.
4 Rosenthal used to make fun of a fellow\i pianist much givento playing Liszt'ssixth Hun- ! garianRhapsodyat atempo Rosenthalconsid- i Ired far tob slow. On oni occasionhe invited \ this friend to come and seehim. The man ex- l cused himself, saying that he did not have the I time. "Nonsense!" retorted Rosenthal."If you i have time to play the sixth rhapsody like that, j you certainly have time to pay me a visit." I

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younglad soughta placeon 5 A promising the staff of The New Yorkerand Rosshired he him. "Don't be too pleased with yourself," "l hire any damn warnedthe new employee, fool who stickshis nosein here.And don't think you'll be startingas a reporter.You'll else." beginasmanaging editor,like everyone (ln a variant of this story, the new memberof staff is identifiedas James Thurber.) 6 As a practical ioke Thurberoncerolledt\ yerylargewaterbottle alongthe corridorpastI the officesof The New Yorker.Hearingthe I edi-| instructed the new managing racket,R.oss tor: "Go and find out what the hell is happ.nI ing.But don't tell me."
7 In a pieceby S.J.Perelman, Rossnoticedan allusionto "the woman taken in adultery." He wrote in the margin, "What woman? Hasn't been previouslymentioned."

ROSS, Harold (1892-1951), US iournalist, founder, and for many yearseditor of The New Yorker. | (Rossbeganhis journalistic careerat the age of fourteen as a reporter on the Salt Lake City Tribune.) "One of his assignments there was to interview the madam of a house of prostitution. Always self-conscious and usually uncomfortable in the presence of all but his closest women friends, the young reporter began by sayingto the bad woman (he divided the other 'How many fallen sex into good and bad), women do you have?"' 2 Shortly after Ross had obtained his discharge from the armed forces at the end of \7orld \Var I, he met the former war secretary, Newton D. Baker. He and Ross discussed the war at length, and Rosswas delightedwith the frankness with which Baker covered a wide range of topics. Taking leave of him, Ross remarked, "Well, Mr. Secretary,that cleansup everything except how Joe Higgins was made corporal of my squad." 3 RosslaunchedThe New Yorkerin 1 925on a shoestring budget. The magazine's finances continued to be very shaky for some time; its equipment and resourceswere therefore minimal. When Ross asked Dorothy Parker why she had not come in to do a piece she had promised him, sheretorted, "someone elsewas using the pencil." 4 (Ross'sunavailing but persistenratrempts to bring order to the officesof The New Yorker made life miserable for a seriesof assistanrs, who included Thurber and M. B. Levick.) "Levick's final frantic responsero the editor's demand for a method of keepingtrack of everything was an enormous sheet of cardboard, six feet by four, divided into at least eight hundred squares, with fine hand lettering in each of them covering all phases of the scheduling of departments and other office rigmaroles.This complicatedcaricatureof System, this concentration of all known procedural facts, hung on a wall of the Talk meeting room until one d^y it fell down of its own weight. Ross had stared at it now and then without saying a word. \(/hen it crashed, he 'Get rid told his secretaryr of that thing."'

8 For years Harold Ross had The Nai Yorker'scover-design character, Eustace Til- I l.y, listedin the Manhatrantelephone book.f He was delightedwhen the city aurhoritiesf eventuallysent this imaginaryfigure a per-{ sonal-property tax bill. i
9 Ross'sturnout was never very smart. After a winter sports holiday in Connecticut with Franklin P. Adams,someoneaskedRoss'shost what Ross had looked like tobogganing. "'Well, you know what Ross looks like not tobogganing," said Adams. 10 Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon was reviewed for The l,trewYorker by critic Robert M. Coates.After he had read the review, Ross telephoned Coates in the country and said, "'Woollcott tellsme there'sa hell of abad word in the book - bathroom stuff." Coates asked what the word was. "l can't tell you over the phoner" said Ross. (PeterDe Vries tellsthe story of Rossar an ll art meeting during which sketches were selected for possible inclusion in The New Yorker.) "The cover on the board showed a Model T driving along a dusty country road, and Ross turned his sharpshooting eyeon it for afull two minutes. 'Take this down, Miss Terry,' he said. 'Better dust.' "

479 Nelz Yorkerwriterswere 12 Many of Ross's lured away to Hollywood. \(/hen John west,Ross badehim farewell McNulty headed as"a memorable with what Thurberdescribes you,McNulty, god"'Well,God bless tagline": damnit." 1,0. alsoJeuns THunnER See to Ross, oncegrumbled 13 A rivalcartoonist "Why do you reject my drawingsand print stuff by that fifth-rateaftist, Thurber?" Ross. "Third -rater"corrected ll,l935,King Edward VIII 14 On December to the world hishisof GreatBritainbroadcast At speech. toric "the womanI love" abdication a cocktail party in New York, the polished Nol Coward and the unbuttoned Harold Ross burstinto listened to the broadcast. Ross Coward,an Establishlaughter. uncontrollable and ment man to his fingertipt,was shocked, exhibition. reprovedRoss for this unseemly Rosswould havenone of it. "You meanr"he "the king of Englandruns saidincredulously, awaywith an old Americanhooker and that ain't funny?" - seeRoss {Ross'syouthful puritanism to havemellowedsomewhat 1 - seems with age.) Ar, '.6 -82),British ROSSETTI, DanteGabriel(182S i ioinedwith painterand poet.ln 1848Rosseff ]ohn EuerettMillais, William Holman Hunt, Brotherand othersto found thePre-Raphaelite The Germ (1850hoodand editeditsiounnal, including of his bestpoems, 51),in wbicb some Damozel," were published.He "The Blessed married(1850)ElizabethSiddal,the modelfor or religious many of his paintingson medieual subiects. that he wantedto-.buy announced I Rossetti and,when his friendsasked'what an elephant, teachit to on earthfor, he replied,"So L.sdfr \ilfhenthey washthe windows of r-ny-h6use." puzzlefo{teadded,"Then everystill seemed one would sta#'and say, 'That elephantis washingjF'windows of the housein which lives E{nte GabrielRossetti,the famousart1.9't.}t' ' 2 \il7hen Rossetti's beautifulwife, Elizabeth Siddal, killed herself with an overdoseof

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laudanum in 1,862,just two years after their marriage, Rossetti's grief was ovenvhelming. Most of his poems had been written for her or to her. At her burial he wrapped the little book containing the unique copiesof thesepoems in her long golden hair and consignedthem to the grave with her. As the years passed,Rossetti beganto think with regret of the poems that he had lost, concluding that it was pointless to leavesome of the finestworks he had produced to molder in the grave with the dead. After to obtain permission,the grave much business was opened and the book retrieved. Its con-

in ,' werepublished tents,with a few additions, and the book wxs;' 1870underthe titl e Poems, successful. immediately on behalf of the Livef3 The negotiations greatpicture pool art gall.ry to buy Rossetti's likely to be abortive Dante'sDream seemed
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had was a critic who bd'considered mediaries insultedhim. A third pa#{, calledin to make
peace, succeededin -gonvincing Rossetti that the man was "quyfrgood fellow at bottom." Rossetti obsendd afterward, "I did not mencamehere he had better take care tion that if."h:e that the'placeat which he was a good fellow did

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Antonio (1792-1868), ROSSINI, Gioacchino suc' He wasan outstandingly Italian composer. of operas,many still in the cessfulcomposer The ItalianGirl in Tancredi(1.8L3), repertoire: (1816), Algiers(1813),The Barberof Seville andWilliamTell Magpie(1817), The Thieving his (1529).Tonrrredos commemorates Rossini as a cook. inuentiueness Halvy,anotherpopular Francois 1 Jacques wasdrivennearlyto distractionby composer, who had stationedhimself an organ-grinder outsidehis window andwasbusygrindingout the hit tunesfrom his rival'sBarberof Seuille. Haldvywent out and saidto the man, "I will giveyou one louis d'or if you will go to Rosandplayoneof my tunesoutside sini'slodgings smiled."But, his window." The organ-grinder monsieur,M. Rossinihas paid me two louis d'or to play his musicoutsideyour window." 2 In a Parismusicstorein 1856Rossinienmusic thcorist and counteredthe celebrated

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9 One d^y a composer unknown to Rossini brought him the scoresof two oratorios, seeking his opinion. Rossinitried to excuse himself, citing poor health. But the composerinsisted, statingthat he would return in a week for Rossini's judgment. He did so, finding Rossini in his armchair, sereneand smiling, but quick to saythat he had beenso ill and had slept so little that he had been able to examineonly one of "And what did you think of it?" was the scores. the eagerquestion. "There are good things in it but I prefer the other one." 10 I7hen Rossini was old and eminent but still not rich, a group of his admirers raised a subscription of twenty thousand francs for a statueto their hero. "Give me the twenty thousatrd," said Rossini, "and I'll stand on the pedestalmyself." As' a8 ROTHSCHILD, Sir Nathan Meyer, 1sr Baron (1840-1915), member of the London branch of the famous family of ] ewish financiers. He was A member of Parliament (155585)and the first ] ew to be admitted to the House of Lords (LSSS). 1 Alighting from a hansom cab one evening, Lord Rothschild gave the driver what he felt to be an adequate tip. "Your lordship" son always gives me a good deal more than rhis," said the driver, eyeingthe money disdainfully. "l daresay he does," retorted Lord Rothschild. "But then, you see,he has got a rich father: I haven't." As' q8 ROUTH, Martin (1755-1854),British Academic, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, for sixty-threeyears (179 1-1854). 1 The ups and downs of collegelife had little effect on the Venerable Dr. Routh, as he was generallycalled. A breathlessdon once stumbled into the president's room, gasping, "A Fellow of this college has killed himself!" Dr. Routh held up a calming hand. "Pray don't tell me who," he is reported to have said. "Allow me to guess." 2 An admirer asked Dr. Routh for a precept that could seffe as a rule of life to an aspiring young man. The president thought for a

scholar Francois-Joseph Ftis. On the counter was displayed Feti s'sTreatise on Counterpoint and Fugue."Must all this be learned?"inquired Rossini,gesturingtoward the volume. "No t at all," replied Fetis. "You yourself arethe living proof to the contra ry." 3 Rossini congratulated the diva Adelina Patti on her singing. "Madame, I have cried only twice in my life," he informed her, "once when I dropped a wing of truffled chicken inro Lake Como, and once when for the first time I heard you sing." 4 A singer gave a rendering of Rossini's famous arra "Una uoce," embellished with many showy fioriture. Vlhen she had finished, Rossini courteously congratulated her upon her technique."And whose is the music?" he asked. 5 Rossini, who usually marked errors in his pupil's compositions with crosses,returned a manuscript to a mediocre student with very few crosses on it. The young man was delighted. "l'm so pleasedthere are so few mistakes," he said happily. "If I had marked all the blunders in the music with crosses, your score would havelooked like a cemeteryr"said Rossini. 6 After a particularly excellent meal, Rossini's hostessturned to him and said he had done her a greathonor by acceptingher invitation. She hoped he would dine with her again soon. "Right awayr" said Rossini enthusiastically.

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conducting played an F-shatp instead of an F. Rossinicorrectedhim, then added consolingly, "In regardto the F-sharp,don't worry about it; we'll find some other place to fit it in." 8 Rossini attended a concert rhat included a set of variationson an afiafrom his own Moses in Egypt, played on musical glasses filled with water to various levelsto sound the right pitch. After the tenth variatiotr, Rossini's companion suggested that they walk out. "Not until this gentleman has finished washing Moses," replied Rossini.

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moment and then said, "I think, sir, sinceyou come for the adviceof an old man, sir, you will find it a very good practice always to uerify your references!" 3 Routh sufferedan injury that troubled him for along time; it was causedwhen he reached up for a weighty volume on a high shelf and the book fell, striking his left l.g. The elderly was incensed."To be lamed by book scholar I 1 " written by a dunce!" he cried. "A worthless i volume! A worthless volume!" 4., 48
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ROWLAND, Henry Augustus (1848- 190L), US physicist, professor of physics at Johns Hopkins Uniuersity (1575-1.901).He laid the foundation for modern spectroscopy. I Professor Rowland was summoned as an expert witness at a trial. During cross-examination a lawyer demanded,"'What are your qualifications as an expert witness in this case?" "l am the greatestliving expert on the subiect under discussion," replied the professor quietly. Later a friend, well acquainted with the professor's modest and retiring disposition, observed that he had been amazedto hear him praisehimself in this way; it was completely out of character. Rowland asked, "Well, what did you expect me to do? I was under oath." {This anecdote is also told of others.} Al, ..S Anton (L829-94), Russian RUBINSTEIN, pianist and composer. He wrote numerous works for the piano, as well as operas and orchestral works. His concerts were acclaimed throughout Europe. In 1852 he founded the St. PetersburgC onsentatoire. 4 The telephone rang at abad time while the rfraestrowas practicing. His seryant, Frangois, fnswered the phone. It was a feminine voice /tenderly asking to speak with Rubinstein. Al/though the sounds of the piano were clearly 'audible, Francoisassuredthe lady that Rubin|tein was not in. "But I hear him playingr" she paid. "You arc mistaken, madamer" replied Frangois. "l'm dusting the piano keys."

a result. Mme Rubinstein workedout a ruseto get him out of bed. Shewould play an unresolvedchord on the piano upsrairs, and her husband, who couldnot bearunresolved dissonances, would run up in his nightshirtto resolveit into a perfecttriad.While he did this, Mme Rubinstein would sneak downstairs and removethe bedclothes to preventhim from returning to bed. is apocryphal, this it is nonetheless {If characteristic of Rubinstein.) Ar, 48 RUBINSTEIN, Arthur (1885-1982), Polishbornpianist,who became aUS citizenin 1946. His interpretation of ChoPin was the foundareputation. tion of his international 1 (Clifton Fadimanrecallsa lunch with Rubinstein.) 'o'We. . awaited him in the restaurant. He entered, his stride thirty-five years his junior,satdown at the table,ordered drinksin he he speaks Italian (from the eightlanguages selects oneasan ordinarymanwould a tie),and 'So sorry to be late.For startedto apologize: making two hoursI havebeenat my lawyer's, of a 1 a nuisance, this business \)(rhat a testament. one schemes, one ar- | One figures, testament. ranges, and in the end- what?It is practically I !"' I to leaveanythingfor yourself impossible in the lobby of a 2 Rubinstein was standing concert hall watching the capacity crowd The in to hear one of his recitals. streaming attendantat the box office,thinking that he hadnot seen the "SOLD OUT" sign,calledout to him, "l'm sorry,mister,but we can't seat
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"May I be seated at the piano?" inquired Rubinstein meekly.

3 During a radio interviewwith Rubinstein, took a sharpturn awayfrom the conversation music when the interviewersuddenlyasked, "Mr. Rubinstein, in God?"Rudo you believe what I binsteincalmlyreplied,"No. You see, much greater." in is something believe Ar, '.8 RUGGLES,Carl (I876-L971), US composer. I Henry Cowell, visitingRuggl.r at his stu- \ dio, found the composer at his piano playing \

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482 RUSSELL,Bertrand Arthur William, 3d Earl (1872-1970), His PrinciBritishphilosopher. (1910-13),writtenwithA. N. piaMathematica Whitehead, exploredthe relationshipbetween puremathematics andlogic.He campaigned for numeroussocial,political, and moral cnuses, suffering imprisonmentfo, pacifism during World War I (1915)and for ciuil disobedience duringthe Campaign D i sarmament for N uclear (1961). He won the 1950NobelPrizefor literature. 1 The Americanpublisher\Tilliam Jovanovich in his studentdaysat Harvardoften ateat a cafeteria that served ratherbad food. cheap, BertrandRussell alsousedto eat ar rhe same place.One d^y Jovanovich, unableto resrrain his curiosity, "Mr. Russell, saidto Russell, I know why I eathere.It is because I am poor; but why do you eathere?" Russell "Bereplied, cause I am neverinterrupted." 2 Russell's friendG. H. Hatdy,who became Professor of puremathematics at Cambridge in 193I, once told him that if he could find a proof that Russell would die in five minures' time,he would naturallybe sorryto losehim, but the sorrowwould be quiteoutweighed by pleasure in the proof. Russell, wisein the ways of mathematicians, observed, "l entirelysympathized with him andwasnor at all offended." 3 (G. H. Hardy reporrs a nightmare onceexperienced by Bertrand Russell. In his dream he foundhimself on the rop floor of agrear library in aboutAD2100.) "A library assistant was going around the shelves carryingan enormousbucket, taking down book after book, glancing ar them,restoringthem to the shelves or dumpingthem into the bucket,At lasthe camero rhreelarge volumes which Russell couldrecognize asthe last surviving copy of PrincipiaMathematica. He took downoneof thevolumes, turnedover a few pages, puzzled seemed for a momentby thecurious symbolism, closed thevolume, balancedit in his hands and hesitated. . ."
4 A certain writer had compiled a book that incorporated, without acknowledgment, a good many of Russell's ideas. The plagiarist then approachedRusselland asked him if he would compose an introduction for the

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2 In the heydayof his careeras arr critic, Ruskinusedalways to maintainthat it should in no way affect his friendship wirh an arristif hepanned hiswork. Theartists, of course, saw matters in a ratherdifferentlight. "Next time I meetyou I shallknock you down," oneof his
victims retorted, "but I trust it will make no differenceto our friendship." 3 Ruskin, tro lover of technologicalprogress, was asked to comment on the completion of the British-Indian cable. "'What havewe ro say to India?" he asked. Ao, ..6

483 completed text. Russell's succinct reply: "Modesty forbids." BertrandRussell 5 S7hen refused to grantintenriews illness aftera serious in China,in L920, presscarriedthe newshe a resentful Japanese haddied.EvenwhenRussell appealed to them, they refusedto retract the story. On his way homehe stoppedin Japan, and the press again soughtto interviewhim. By way of reprisal he handout printedslipsto each hadhissec retary The slipsread:"SinceMr. Russell reporter. is deadhe cannotbe interoiewed." (Reportsof premature deatharenot uncomm

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2 Russelland \7ilt Chamberlain were both defensive starsin the 1960s.Russell's teams took eleven titles while \7ilt's won only two. Chamberlain, however, received the first contractin basketball. When $100,000-a-year Russell was offereda similardeal,he insisted Needling on a contractcallingfor $100,001. remarked, "Poor Wilt hisarch-rival, Russell always a dollar short and a basketlate." &r' 4S RUSSELL, George William (1,857-1935), lrish poet who wrote under the pseudonym in"AE.'; His ptay Deirdre(1902)wis largely strumentalin the formation of the lrish National Theatre.His poetrydrawson a mystical of theancient wisdomin lrish folkloreand sense history. critic George I The Americandramatic Jean of literNathanwasonceat aDublingathering ary figures.A disputearosein the courseof stood whichRussell, crimson with indignation, up and poundedthe table.Nathan remarked, "AE's Irish rose." 2 When AE wasin Hamburg,he wasoffered 'oI a drink. o'No,thankyour" he said. wasborn intoxicated." Ary 48 RUSSELL, British 87S), John,lst Earl (1792-1 primeminister(1846-52, 7855-56). statesman; A lifelong Whig, Russellwas instramental in draftingthe 1832Reform Bill and in 1"835, as (1535-39),u)asresponsible homesecretary fo, introducing the Municipal Reform Act. His characteras a politician was admirably describedby SydneySmith: "He would perform the operation or for the stane,build St.Peter's, - with or without ten minutes'notice assume -the commandof the Channelfleet,and no one uould discouerby bis mannerthat the patient had died, the church tumbleddown, and the Channel fleethad beenknockedto atoms."

6 Russell wasonceaskedwhetherhe would to die for his beliefs."Of course be prepared t'After all, I may be wrong." notr" he replied. oncefound the 7 A youngfriendof Russell's philosopher in a stateof profoundcontemplaaskedthe young tion. "\ilflhy so meditative?" I've madean odd discovetyr" man. "Because I "Everytime I talk to a savant repliedRussell. is no longer a feel quite sure that happiness possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, of the opposite." I'm convinced Ar' e8 RUSSELL, Bill (L934- ), US basketball player.A greatstar,heled the Uniuersityof San Francisco to two national collegiatetitles in and the BostonCelticsto eleuen threeseAsons titles in thirteenselsons. nationalprofessional As a coach,be guided the Celticsto two more crowns.
I Russellwas a tall center famous for his unselfish team play. Off court he became well known for his philosophy of life. To an attractive young lady he met at aparty he said, "You can get anything you want in life if you are willing to give up enough to get it." "I want a lot of motreyr" replied the girl, "but I come from a poor family, I have little education, and I have no specialtalents." "You could become a prostitute." "That's a terrible thing to say to someone you just met and don't know. I would neverdo such a thing.'o "I didn't meanto insult your" saidRussell."I was just proving my point. You're a pretty lady.

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3 Babe Ruth loved kids. On one occasion when the family of a fan of the Babe's,a youngster who was seriously ill in the hospital, requestedan autographed baseballfor the boy, the Babe went along to the hospital himself gavehim the basebil, and promised to hit j home run for him in the game that afternoorl. Sure enough, the Babe came through with the home run. The lad recoveredand Babe Ruth "Best medicinein the world, a home observed,
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I During a fiery debate,the Tory Sir Francis Burdett objected to somesentiments from the other side that he called "the cant of patriotism." Russellimmediatelyretorted, "There is something worse than the cant of patriotism; that is the recant of patriotism." 2 Russell was telling a friend about a party and how he had left the Duchessof Inverness and gone to talk to the Duchessof Sutherland because the Duchessof Inverness had beensitting very close to the fire and it had been intolerably hot. "l hope you told the Duchessof Inverness why you abandoned her," commented his friend. Russellreflected,then said, "No - but I did tell the Duchessof Sutherland." 3 Asked his opinion as to what would be the proper punishment for bigamy, Russell promptly answered,"Two mothers-in-la\ry." A.* q8 RUTH, George Herman ["Babe"] (1S95player. In 1927 he hit sixty 1948),US baseball home runs - a record unbroken until 1961. I During the DepressionBabeRuth, askedto take a cut in salary,held out for his $80,000 contract. A club official protested, "But that's more money than Hoover gor for beingpresident last year." "l know," said the Babe,"but I had a better year." 2 Babe Ruth was enormously popular, a larger-than-life-sizefigure in many respecrs, given to overeating and overdrinking. The most notorious occasionwas in the courseof preseason training when, on a railroad ride to New York, the Babegot off at a train srop and consumed an estimated twelve hot dogs and eight bottles of lemon-lime soda pop in a few minutes. Soon afterward he was stricken with "the stomachacheheard 'round the world." (Lesspublicizedwere rumors that he had contributed to his miserywith the consumption of large amounts of beer and booze.) For days ominous headlines had his fans across the country fearingfor his life. Recovering,Ruth is reported to have said, "That soda pop will get you every time."

4 "Grantland Rice, the prince of sportswriters, used to do a weekly radio intenriew with some sporting figure. Frequently, in the interest of spontaneity, he would type out questions and answersin advance.One night his guestwas Babe Ruth. " '\Well,you know, Grannyr'the Babereadin responseto a question, 'Duke Ellington said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fieldsof Elkton.' " 'Baber' Granny said after the show, 'Duke Ellington for the Duke of Wellingron I can understand. But how did you everreadEton as Elkton? That's in Maryland, isn't it?' "'l married my firsr wife there,' Babe said, 'and I alwayshated the goddamn place."' t 5 Ruth once sufferedthe humiliarion of hav{ ing the great Walter Johnson of the Washing-I ton Senatorsthrow three straightfastballspasr him. He askedthe umpire if he had seenany of the pitches. "No," replied the umpire. "Neither did I," said Ruth, "but that last one soundedkinda high to me." As' q8 RUTHERFORD, Ernest, lst Baron (18711937), British physicist, born in New Zealand. He beld professorshipsat Montreal (15951907),Manchester(1907-19), and Cambridge, where he was also director of the Cauendish Laboratory 0919-37). He rcceiuedthe 1908 Nobel Prize for chemistry. 1 Rutherford's work and repuration made the CavendishLaboratory the M eccafor experimental physicistsfrom all over the world. As successfollowed success,someone obsenredto Rutherford that he was alwaysat the crest of the wave. "'Well, after all, I made the wave, didn't I?" said Rutherford.

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SAARINEN, tect. Eero (1910-61), Finnish archithe careersof a number of younger writers in the French Romantic mouement. I Although himself unpugnacious, SainteBeuvewas once compelled to fight a duel with pistols.At the critical moment, just asthe order to fire was about to be given, it started to rain. called for a pausein the proceedSainte-Beuve ings while he went to his carriageand fetched and opened alargeumbrella. He then faced his opponent with the umbrella held in his left hand and the pistol in his right. The opponent protested at this derogation of the dignity of the occasion. "I don't mind being killed," responded,"but I do mind getSainte-Beuve ting wet." {In the event neither happened.} Ar, '.8 SAINT-SAiINS, [Charles] Camille (1835I92I), French composer, best known fo, his Third Symphony concertosin G minor and C minor, and the opera Samsonet Dalila. I Sir Thomas Beechamconducted a conceft for in London given in honor of Saint-Sans, which the principal piece was Saint-Sans's Third Symphony. Beechamfound the tempi in the symphony depressingly slow; so did the players, 8s they made clear by the way they played in rehearsal. Nor was the situation presence. helped by Saint-Sans's Beecham finally exaggeratedthe accentuation on purpose to give a semblanceof life to it up. Later the musicwithout actuallyspeeding he asked Saint-Sans what he thought of the interpretation. The aged composer replied, "My dear young friend, I have lived a long while, and I have known all the chefs d'orchestre. There are two kinds; one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third."

I Saarinen,an exceptionally slow talker, was beinginterviewedfor a televisionprogram.The allotted time was rapidly running out, and the if anxious interviewerventured to ask Saarinen he could speak just a little faster. "No, sir," replied the architect, casually lighting up his pipe. "Butr" he continued, more slowly than ever,"I could say less." As' 48 SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward Charles, Sth Baron (1901-65), British writer and critic. inherited the vasthouseand I Sackville-\7est in Kent from his cousin, and Knole of estate this seemsto have put him somewhat out of touch with how less fortunate mortals exist. Told that a certain person owned a dog, he exclaimed, "But how can he? He hasn't got a park to exerciseit in." Ast "'8 SAGE, Russell(181'6-1"905),US financier. He left his large fortune to be distributed in benefactions by his wife, who set up the RussellSage Foundation (1907) to improue social and liuing conditions in the United-llates. lawyer was delighted by the casehis I Sage's client had just laid before him. "It's an ironclad caser" he exclaimed with confidence. "'We can't possibly lose!" "Then we won't suer" said Sage."That was my opponent's side of the caseI gaveyou."

4., ".8 Augustin(1804SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles 69),Frenchcritic and literaryhistorian,whose prosestylewAsgreatlyadmiredand emulated. His influence asa critic enabled him to promote

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SALK, Jonas E. (1914- ), US uirologist who in 1954 deuelopedtbe first effectiueantipolio uaccine. 1 Salk worked hard to publicize his discoveW, although he receivedno money from the once askedhim who owned saleof it. Someone the patent. He replied, "The people- could you patent the sun?" A$, a8 SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967), US poet, nouelist,and biographer.He is best known for his multiuolume biography of Abraham Lincoln celeand The People, Yes (1936), a free-uerse bration of democracy. I A young dramatist,anxious for Sandburg's opinion of his new seriousplay, askedthe poet to attend the dress rehearsal.Sandburg slept 'When throughout the performance. the dramatist complained, saying that Sandburghad known how much he wanted his opinion, Sandburgreplied, "Sleep is an opinion." A.* q8

In the 1930s,General Somervellwas administering the \ilfPA and was confronted with a "sit-down" strike. Union members took over space in a public building and would not leave. The police had tried to end the strike This time Somerwithout much success. vell simply locked all the building's bathrooms and left with the keys. The strike was over in six hours.

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SALINGER, J. D. (1,91,9- ), US writer who achieuedalmost ouernight fame with his nouel The Catcher in the Rye (1951).The hero, Holden Caulfield, epitomized the dissatisfaction of 'War post-World II adolescents by making a 'stand against what he called the "p'hony" adult world. I When The Catcher inthe Ryewas chosenas the main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1,951,, the president of the club expressed anxiety over the book's somewhatambiguous title. Asked if he would consider a change,Salinger simply replied,"Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that." The suggestionwas not revived. A$ '.8 SALISBURY, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquess of (1830-1903), British stAtesmAn,secretary for India (185557, 1874-7 8), Disraeli's foreign secretary (1878), and three times Consentatiue prime minister (1885-92, 1895-1900, 1900-02).He was the chief architect of Britain's isolationist policy at the end of the nineteenth century. I In 1895, Salisbury made the undistinguished poet Alfred Austin Poet Laureate. It was widely believed that the decision was basedon Austin's political leaningsrather than on his talent. Asked why he had chosena poet of such inferior ability, Salisbury simply replied, "l don't think anyoneelseappliediot the
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SANDWICH, John Montagu, 4th Earl of (I7I8-92), British politician. As First Lord of tbe Admiralty (1745-51,,1771-82), he was responsible for the unpreparednessof the British nauy at the outbreak of the American Reuolution. The earl gaue his name to the sandwich, which he inuented as a snack to sustain him through long hours of gambling. L Entertaining at a dinner at which his chaplain was present, the earl brought in a large baboon dressedin clerical garb to say grace. The affronted chaplain left the room, pausing on his way out to obsenre,"l did not know your lordship had so near a relative in holy orders.tt 2 Lord Sandwichwas remarkablefor his ungainliness;a contemporary wit said that he could be reco gnizedfrom afar by the fact that "he walked down both sidesof the street at once." He liked to tell the following story: During a stay in Parishe took dancing lessons. Bidding farewell to his dancing master, he offered to recommendhim to membersof London society who might be visiting Paris. The "I would take it man bowed and saidearnestly, as a particular favor if your lordship would

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(1853-1,9 SANTAYANA, George 52), pbilosopher Spanish-born and poet. He spent many yearsat Hantard (1889-1911) and at Oxford. His philosopbyis bestset out in the Realms of Being(1927-40). four-uolume inheritedhis simpleand unosI I Santayana i tentatioushabits from his father. Once he anawhyhe always travi' xskedthe seniorSantay eled third class."Because there'sno fourth class." {This anecdoteis also told of Albert Schweitzer.)
2 ,I7hen Santayana cameinto a sizablelegacy, he was able to relinquish his post on the Harvard faculty. The classroomwas packed for his fina'l appearance, and Santayana did himself proud. He was about to conclude his remarks when he caught sight of a forsythia beginning to blossom in a patch of muddy snow outside the window. He stopped abruptly, picked up his hat, gloves,and walking stick, and made for the door. There he turned. "Gentlemenr" he said softly, "I shall not be able to finish that sentence.I have iust discovered that I have an appointment with April." 4., {8 SARASATE [y Navascu6sJ, Pablo de (18441908), Spanish uiolinist. He composedA number of works, including Spanish dancesand fontasias, for the uiolin. I By inviting Sarasate to dinner, his wealthy hostesshad hoped to obtain a free violin recital for her guests after the meal. During the course of dinner she broached the subject, asking Sarasate whether he had brought his violin. "Mais non, mAdnmq" replied the violinist, "mon uiolon ne dine pls" (No, madame, ffiy violin does not dine). Seealso SrEpHrN CoLLrNs FosrrR 1. 2 In the latter paft of his career, Sarasatereceived a visit from a famous music critic who acclaimed him as a genius. Sarasateaccepted the compliment with .little enthusiasm. "A

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child is born." Asking the ladiesto repeat the 'Just a little more reversection,he requested: and not so much astonishment." ence,please, (For Sir Thomas Beecham'spreferences as a conductor, seeBuECHAM7.) 3 As he was preparingto leavethe Albert Hall after a concert one evening,Sir Malcolm overheard the following brief exchange bet*een two young girls: "How I envy Sir Malcolm." "You mean his conducting?" "Oh, flo, not that. I mean his neat little flat behind." 4 At the ageof seventl, Sargent was askedby an interviewer:"To what do you attribute your advancedage?'? "Wellr" replied the conductor, "l supposeI must attribute it to the fact that I haven't died
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objected to his treatment of the mouth in a portrait he had done of her, his rejoinder was: "Perhaps,madam,we'd better leaveit out altogether." {sargent suggested"A little something wrong with the mouth" should be written on his tombstone.) 3 A woman who was paying $5,000 for her portrait by Sargentsaid that there was something wrong with the nose."Oh, you can easily put a little thing like that right when you get it home," said Sargent,handing her the canvas. 4 Sargenthad been commissionedto do a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt. Determined to find the right setting, h. and the president scouredthe X7hite House for a suitablebackdrop. By the end of the secondafternootr,after of posesagainstvarioussettrying a succession tings, Roosevelt had had enough. Pausingat the bottom of a staircase,his elbow on the newel post, he turned to the painter and said, "'W'e'reafter the impossiblelwe'd better give it up." Sargenttook in at a glancethe president's pose and exclaimed, "D on't moue, Mr. President! We'ue got it!" 5 Sargentonce found himself sitting beside an effusive young admirer at a dinner party. "Oh, Mr. Sargent," she gushed, "l saw your latest painting and kissed it becauseit was so much like you." "And did it kiss you in return?" asked the artist. "\7hy, no." "Then it was not like me," said Sargent with a smile. Ar, 44 SARGENT, Sir Malcolm (1895-1967), British conductor and organist who, ds chief conductor at the London Promenade Concerts (1957-57), did much to bring classicalmusic aliue for younger audiences. | "'What do you have to know to play the cymbals?"someone once asked Sir Malcolm Sargent. "Nothingr" was his reply, "just
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5 A. P. Herbert visited Sargentin the nursing home shortly before he died and found him chuckling over the remark of an earliervisitor, Bob Boothby. Boothby had told Sir Malcolm that he had just been preparing a magnificent obituary for him, to be broadcast over the BBC: "The only thing is, I don't get anything until it's delivered." As, *8 SAROYAN, William (1908-81), US writer. His works include many short stories,the plays The Time of Your Life (1939)and The Beautiful People (1941), and a nouel, The Human Comedy (1943). I Before his death in 198L, Saroyanphoned in to the AssociatedPressa final Saroyanesque observation: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.Now what?" Ar, 48 composer of SATIE, Erik (I866-1,925),French and piano pieces.His music is notablefor songs its humor, its originality, and his eccentric instntctions to potential performers. L Satiewrote the following direction on one of his piano compositions:"To be playedwith both hands in the pocket."

2 Conducting a rehearsalof Handel's Meswith the performsiah, Sargentwas dissatisfied ance of the female singersin "For unto us a

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"I'm the writer JosefVictor von Scheffel." "Indeed.Showme your papers!" A" 48 SCHICK, Bela (1,577-L967),HungarianAmericanpediatrician and allergist; inuentorof the Schicktestthat indicates whethersomeone is immuneto diphtheria. | "ln the fall of 1923 Dr. Bela SchickasDepartsumed the directorship of the Pediatric Hospital,New York. mentat the Mount Sinai From the beginning he held his grandrounds He and later his conferences on Thursdays. startedpromptlyat 9:30 A.M. no matterhow was.One morning during smallthe gathering years in the thirtiestherewasan the depression and overflow Schick wasdelighted attendance. 'There must be an epidemicof commented, health.' "The followingweek when the attendance 'Practice apparently fell off, Schickremarked, is already better."' 4., ..8 (1895-L943), RzsSCHILLINGER, Joseph sian-bornmusicaltheorist.
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Ar' 4t SCARRON, Paul (1510-50),Frenchpoet, playwrigbt, and nouelist.He excelledin burand comedies, lesques his unfinished especially For twentyyears Romancomique(1551-57). ill healthand constantpain. seuere he endured d'Aubigne,later became His wife, Franeoise wife, Louis XIV's second of poems a collection to 1 Scarron dedicated chienne de ma his sister'sdog: "A Guillemette, soetlr."Shortlybeforethe publicationof the poems,however,Scarronquarreledwith his sister,and as a resultthe following notice appearedamong the errataof the book: "For bitch]readma sister's dema soeurlmy chienne de soeur[my bitch of a sister]." chienne up the ^gethe notarydrawing 2 At their marri contract asked Scarronwhat dowry he inbut penniuponhisbeautiful to bestow tended youngbride."Immortalityr"he replied. less Ary 48 GerVictor von (1826-85), SCHEFFEL,Josef nArraman writer. His works includethe uerse (1854)and tiue Der Trompetervon Sackingen (1855). He was nouel Ekkehard the historical the studentsongs, knownfor his Heidelberg also igitur. mostfamousof which fs Gaudeamus was a studentand had al1 \fhile Scheffel somelitera readyachieved ry fame,he set out on a walking trip alongthe right bank of the Rhine.As the dty was hot, he decidedon a andplungedin. swim,threw off all his clothes, wasfar stronger thanhe The current,however, he manAfter an exhausting struggle expected. - but found himself on the shore to reach aged Ieftbank.Starknaked,he hadno option but to for help.It inn and appeal walk to the nearest that the district military policeman happened hadalsostopped by at theinn.Thelattergrimly "'\ilfhere thehaked,drippingScheffel. surveyed did you comefrom?"he demanded. bank,Officer." "From the opposite "And what'syour name?"

i1 One of Schillinger's favorite tricks was to the iplaya pieceon the piano and then challenge jaudienceto namethe composer.After listeners suggested everyonefrom Palestrinato Bach, he would reveal, with a broad grin, that he had based the melody upon the businesscuffe in the financial section of The New York Times that showed the fluctuations in wholesale prices of agricultural produce. This he had musicalvaluesto the units of done by assigning the graph, adding lines of harmony derived from the Chicago grain market, the Nebraska corn market, and the Georgia sugarcanemarket to create a musical composition in complete three-part counte{point. Ar, ..6 Friedrich Daniel SCHLEIERMACHER, Ernst (L768-1834), German philosopher and tbeologian. | \7hen complimented on the popularity of his sermons,which drew large audiencesfrom many walks of life, Schleiermacherexplained, "My audiences comprise mainly students, women, and officers. The students come to

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"He is Artur Schnabel." The lady looked bemused. seer"shesaid. "But what does he do?" "He's a pianistr" replied Stefan."He played at CarnegieHall severaltimes this season." "That's nice," said the agent."I'm alwaysso glad to hear of a refugeegetting on well.'? 3 An elderly lady in the front row slept right through one of Schnabel'sconcerts, waking with a start as the final ovation rang around the auditorium. Schnabelleanedacrossto apolomadamer" he whisgrze,"lt was the applause, pered. "l played as softly as I could." 8s' 'ta SCHODL, Max (1834-192I), Austrian stilllife painter. 7 Schodl was noted for his absentmindedness."'Where to?" asked the driver of a horsecab that the painter had hailed. Schodl reflected."Number sixr" he said. "I'll tell you the street later on." A$.' a8 SCHOLL, Aurlien (1833-1,902),notorious Belle Epoque boulevardier, iournalist, and amorist. I Scholl, for some reason known only to himself, on severaloccasionscut his friend Catulle Mendds, the novelist and playwright. Mendes decidedthat this kind of behaviorwas unacceptable. Finding Scholl sitting at a table in Tortoni's one afternootr, Mendds strode up to him and pointed an accusingfinger at him, shouting,"BONJOUR!" at the top of his voice. Schollstudiedthe fingerfor a time, adjustedhis monocle, then smiled and asked politely, "'Where would you like me to put it, monsieur?" 2 "One challenger of Scholl'swasa bankerof rather shady reputation who, on certain occasions,had carriedout a number of dealswhich had all but landed him in prison. Angered by some insinuating remarks Scholl had written about him in his newspaper,the banker burst into Tortoni's and challenged Schollto a duel. Scholl,as alwaysadjustinghis monocle, stared coolly up at the man and asked, 'You really want to fight?'

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8., 48 Heinrich (1,822-90),GerSCHLIEMANN, mAn archaeologist As a merchant, he acquired knowledgt of ten languages and a fortune, which enabledhim to pursue his childhood uision of prouing the historicity of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Schliemann's at Hisexcauations sarlik reuealeda sequenceof ancient cities, the second oldest of wbich he identified with the brought to HomericTroy. His later erccauations light the first remains of Mycenaean ciuilization. 1 "l have looked upon the face of Agamemnon," exulted Schliemann when his excavations in the citadel of Mycenae unearthed ^ gold death mask of a warrior king. Later, doubts crept in, and his more scientificallyinclined colleagues almost persuaded him that he had discoveredthe remainsof a generationfar earlier than the presumed date of Homer's Agamemnon. Schliemann resisted these suggestionshotly at first, but later came to accept them philosophically."\iltrh &tr" he said,"this is not Agamemnon's body and these are not his ornaments?All right, let's call him Schulze." (Schulzeis the German equivalentof Smith or Jones.) After that these remains were always referredto as "Schulze." As, e8 SCHNABEL, Artur (1882-19 51), Austrian pianist, renowned fo, his interpretation of Beetbouen. I A piano student came to Schnabelto ask him if he could study with him. Schnabel tested him and agreedto take him on asa pupil. "How much are your lessons?" the student asked. 'oFive guineaseach." "l'm afraid I can't afford that." - but I "I also give lessonsat three guineas don't recommendthem." 2 In 1,940,Schnabel'sson Stefan,an actor, was visited by r publicity agent. Toward the end of the interview sheasked:"Are your parents in America?" "Yesr" replied Stefan. "And your father - what does he do?"

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"'Oui, monsieur!'roared the banker. "scholl shrugged.'Bon,' he said. 'I daresay that when we arrive on the grounds they'll remove your handcuffs."' 3 "He eventually married the daughter of a rich London brew er,a far from felicitous marriage which in no way interfered with his successful pursuit of other women. His witty approach had an individuality of its own. When one little married woman, wanting to give way yet struggling with her conscience, pleaded piteously, 'Let me be for a time, ffiy friend! Let me retire into myself,' Schollreplied 'Allow with gallant ardor: ffi, madame, to accompany you."' 6s, e4 SCHONBEIN, Christian Friedrich (17991858),German-Swisschemistand professorat the Uniuersity of Basel. Discot)ererof ozone, he was also a noted inuentor. ,il In 1845 Schonbeinwas carrying our an experiment with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid in the kitchen of his home. This was a practice expresslyforbidden by his wife, who had banned the professorfrom her kitchen. In her absencehe becameso absorbed in his experiment that he spilled a little of the dangerous mixture on her kitchen table. Aware that his disobediencemight be disclosedby per" the manentstain on the woodwork, he grabbed first thing at hand, his wife's cotton apron, and mopped up the offending liquid. He then hung it before the fire so that it would be dry before his wife returned. The resulting explosion, causedby the nitration of the cellulosein the cotton, eventually enabled the browbeaten chemist to invent, market, and exploit the smokelessgunpowder that becameknown as guncotton. A$, e8 SCHONBERG, Arnold (I874-I95L), Austrian composer, pioneer of atonality, the socalled twelue-tonesystem. His compositions include the tone poem Pelleas and Melisande (1903), the song cycle Pierrot lunaire (1912), operas, chamber music, and otber choral and orchestralworks. I Schonberg was strolling through the streets of his home town with a visiting friend one d^y,

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nodding graciously at the respectful greetings from the local people, many of them young boys. His friend was impressedand not a little surprised. "You really are famousr" he remarked. "Even the children know you." "That is quite true," remarked Schonberg with a smile."You see,my son is a halfback on the high-school football team." 2 (The pianist Artur Schnabelin the course of alecturetold this story about the composers Schonbergand Stravinsky.) "You may find this hard to believe,but Igor Stravinskyhas actually published in the papers the statement, 'Music to be great must be completely cold and unemotional'! And last Sunday, I was having breakfast with Arnold Schonbrg, and I saidto him,'Can you imagine that Stravinsky actually made the statement that music to be great must be cold and got furious unemotional?' At this, SchOnberg 'I and said, said that first!"' A+ 48 SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (1788-1850), German philosopber who deueloped seueral aspectsof Kantian theory. He ftlt the human willto bea profoundly distortingand corrupting force, a uiew that underlay his deep pessimism. 1 Visiting a greenhousein Dresden, Schopenhauer becameabsorbed in contemplation of one of the plants. His eccentric gestures drew the attention of the attendant. "'Who are looked at him you?" he asked. Schopenhauer o'If you slowly, said then for some moments, could only answerthat question for ID,I'd be eternally grateful." \ 2 Schopenhauer,living in lodgings at Frankfurt for the last yearsof his life, used to take his meals at an inn frequented by English military , prsonnel. At the start of each meal he would front of him. : ' place a gold coin on the table in At the end of the meal he would drop the coin back in his pocket. A waiter, who had been , eyeingthe coin with interest,askedhim why he did this. Schopenhauerexplained that he had a little wager with himself every day: he would drop the coin into the poor box on the first I occasion that the English officers talked of , znlthing other than horses,dogs, or women. A.' 48

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"Max Schling, New York florist, ran an advertisement in The New York Times entirely in shorthand. A lot of businessmen cut it out and, out of curiosity, to translateit. The askedtheir secretaries to think of Schling ad asked secretaries when the boss wanted flowers for his wife."

reprovingly, "Young man," said Ernestine canhear "how cantimesbe badwhenchildren for a dime?" Schumann-Heink As' "4 9 54),PolishSCHWARTZ, Maurice(1890-1 to the director,who came bornactorand theater and foundedthe Yiddish in 1,901 UnitedStates (1918). Art Theater of mowas frequentlyaccused 1 Schwartz nopolizingall the best roles.A friend of his Mr. "On occasion hotly denied theallegations. with theleadverygenerous hasbeen Schwartz his reing partsr"he said."Take, for example, cent production of the BrothersAshkenazi. Did he play both brothers?" Ar, 48 SCHWARZENBERG, Felix,Prince(1800A ruthand diplomAt. 52),AustrianstatesmAn policyin the he masterminded reactioftdr!: Iess reign(1848of Francis first four years Joseph's power through tlte emperor's 52),strengthened the 1849constitution, and foiled Prussia's Atof Austrianweakness. tempt to takeaduantage I Austriawas forced to rely on the help of to crushthe HungarCzarNicholasI of Russia Austrian dominionin 1,849. against ianuprising Schwarzenberg After this had beenachieved, Russia in hispolicyof favoring no signs showed in any way. Asked whether he did not feel to the czarrSchwarzenberg underan obligation replied,"Austriawill astoundthe world with of her ingratitude." the magnitude it 2 After the quellingof the 1849uprising, that it would to Schwarzenberg wassuggested towardthecaptured beprudentto showmercy "Yes,indeed, a good idea," rebels. Hungarian he replied,"but first we will havea little hangittg." 3 Schwarzenberg'shealth failed quite suddenly when he was still comparativelyyoung. A doctor calledin to examinehim warned him to take more rest or he would die of an apoplectic stroke. "That manner of death has my full "pprovalr" snappedback the patient. {He had the death he approved,dropping dead as he was preparingto go to a ball.)

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Ernestine (1861SCHUMANN-HEINK, uas a noted interShe contralto. 1936)rGerman preter of Wagnerian roles. gourI Schumann-Heinkwas an unashamed mand. Enrico Caruso, another lover of good food in quantity, entered the restaurant at her about to begin which shewas dining. Seeing on a vast steak, he said, "Stina, surely you are not going to eat that alone?" "No, tro, not aloner" replied the lady, "mit potatoes." {Told of others.} 2 When Mme Schumann-Heinkappearedas the witch in Hansel and Gretel, her children, watching from the auditorium, were appalled at her fate at the end of the opera. "Mother! Mother!" her little boy screamedas she was pushed into the oven. A few minutes later she was back on the stage for her curtain calls. "There she is!" he cried out in relief. "There's Mother! They didn't burn her after all!" 3 Conditions were rather cramped in the Detroit conceft hall where Schumann-Heink was to perform. As the portly singer struggled through the orchestrapit to make her entrance, music racks crashedto the floor. The conductor looked on in alarm. "sidewoys,madamr" he whispered urgently, "go sideways." "Mein Gott!" cried the singer in reply. "I haff no sideways!" 4 In the Depression of the 1930s financial problems forced Schumann-Heink out of retirement. Despite her age and ill health, she signed a music-hall contract and took to the road. A newspaper reporter interoiewing her

493 SCHWEITZER, Albert (1,875-1965), Alsatian-bornmedicalmissioftctr! and t theologian, musician.Schweitzer studiedtheology and was principal of thetheological facultyat Strasbourg beforehe abandoned his brilliant academic careerto train Asa medicalmissionary.He had also gainedan internationalreputationas an and studentof Bach'sorganmusic. interpreter From 1913he workedat theiunglehospitalat I-ambaren|in Gabon,Africa, which he establishedand for many yearssupportedwith the proceeds andlecfrom his books,organrecitals, giuenon uisitsto Europe. In 1952he was tures Prizefor his work in awardedthe NobelPeace Africa. "reverence for life" aptly sums I The phrase philosophy. On a visit to the up Schweitzer's hewasimportuned by manyvisiUnitedStates hisdinnerto tors,a groupof whom interrupted him to explainhis ethics.He try to persuade Oneof the talkedpatientlyfor twentyminutes. example visitorswantedhim to givea specific said,"Revfor life." Schweitzer of "reverence your kind my answering for life means erence
inquiries; it also means your reverencefor my dinner hour." Schweitzerwas able to return to his meal. 2 His doctrine of "reverence for life" was to be literally obeyed. It accounted for his vegetarianisffi, as well as for his attitude toward all animals.The American TV star Jack Paar once visited him at his hospital in Lambarnd.A dog appeared, chasing a chicken. In French Dr. Schweitzershouted, "No! No! Remember we have won the Nobel PeacePrize!" 3 Jack Paaralso recallsSchweitzer'sstandard attire: white pith helmet, white shirt and pants, black tie. He had worn one hat for forty years, the tie for twenty. Told that some men owned dozens of neckties, he remarked, "For one neck?" 4 (African patients leaving Schweitzer'shospital frequently stole his chamber pots to useas cooking utensilsin their jungle homes.)Traveling by train in Europe, Schweitzerwas asked by "'What do you an inquisitive fellow passengr, do for a living?" "I supply Gabon with chamberpotsr" he replied.

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SCIPIO NASICA SERAPIO, PubliusCornelius (fl. 138 BC),Roman politiciAn,elected consulin 138 nc. Opposedto the reformsimplemented by Tiberius Gracchus, he took part in his assassination in 1,33nc. I Scipio Nasica called on his friend, poet , Quintus Ennius,only to be told by Ennius's slavethat his masterwasnot at home.Nasica caughtsight of the poet disappearing into a room at the back of the house.He did not attemptto contradictthe slave, however, and left without a word. Sometime later, Ennius returned thevisit."Not at home!"criedNasica as his friend arrivedat the door. "You can't expectme to believethat- I recognize your voicer" replied Ennius."'S(/hy, you're a nice fellowr" retorted Nasica. "I believedyour and you won't believe slave, me." of an anecdote that {The originalversion has since been attributed to Jonathan Swift.See alsoSHrcEnu 1..) YosHrDA Ar, {S SCOTT, Sir Walter (7771-1832),Scottish nouelist. He first achieued famewith his poems on the feudsand louesof the medieual families 's7averley liuing on theEnglish-Scottish border. (1814)established him as a successful nouelist and was thefirst in a series of historicalnouels.
i f As a boy Scott was always the runner-up in Jhis class at school. Try as he might, he could i never displace the fluent, quick-witted, and j studious boy who stood at the rop of the class. , One dry Scott, watching his rival speaking in class,noticed that the lad always fumbled with a particular button on his vesr while he talked. Stealthily Scott took a pair of scissorsand

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1 "[A woman] who had been his mistressin Detroit came to his office in Cincinnati where he was just getting a good start with the Pos/ and tried to blackmail him. He summoned the city editor and directed him to call up the two rival papers and tell them to send over reporters. When the reporters arrived, he introduced his visitor. "'Miss Brownr' he said, 'used to live with me as my mistress.She was paid for what she did and we parted on good terms.Shehascome here today threatening to revive that story and askingfor money. You areatliberty to print the story. As far as I am concerned,the incident is closed.' "The story was run with big headlines,and to the surprise of everybody, it did no harm either to the circulation of the paper or the standing of its editor." F',cE SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO, Fra (?1485L547), Italian painter. He collaborated with Raphael in the decoration of the Farnesina,and also becamea sought-afterportraitist. In 1.531 he was appointed keeper of the papal seals (piombi), from which he took his nicknAme. 1 In later life Sebastiano painting and ceased was censuredfor his idlenessby certain busybodies.He rebutted such criticism by pointing out, "There are now men of geniuswho do in two months what I usedto do in two years,and I believe if I live long enough I shall find that everythinghas beenpainted. As thesestalwarts can do so much, it is as well that there should also be someone who does nothing, so that they may have the more to do."

snippedoff the button. The next time the master called upon the boy to answer a question, he stood up and beganto speak,feelingfor the , button. Failing to find it, he was so discon, certed that he stuttered and fell silent. Scott seizedhis opportunity, answeredthe question, and displaced his rival from the head of the class,a position he maintained thereafrer. 2 Walking around the Abbotsford esrarein spring, Sir S7alterand Lady Scott passeda field full of gamboling lambs. "No wonder," said Scott, "that poets from the earliesttimes have made lambs the symbols of peace and innocence.tt "Delightful creatures indeed," Lady Scott assented, "especiallywith mint sauce." 3 Scott gleanedmany of the anecdotesand traditional stories used in his novels from an old Scottish lady, Mrs. Murray Keith. At the height of the speculationabout the authorship of Wauerley,Mrs. Keith challengedScott with being "the Great Unknown" and refused to accept his customary denial. "D'y. think I dinna ken my ain groatsamong other folks'kail [brothJ?" she exclaimed. 4 Scott's young son was ignorant of his father's fame asa novelist,but loved and admired him for reasonscloser to a boy's heart. Once when he was in his teenshe was in the company of some older people who were discussing Scott's genius."Ayar" put in young Scott, "it's commonly him is first to seethe hare." 5 \Tilliam Wordsworth once declaredin the course of conversationthat he had "the greatest contempt for Aristotle." "But not, I take itr" remarked Scott, "that contempt which familiarity breeds." 6 When Scott was declared bankrupt in "1.826, his friends rallied around with offers of money. Scott declined their assistance, saying, "No, this right hand shall work it all off." This promisehe kept, although the incessant writing ruined his health,and he dictatedhis last works from his deathbed while sufferinggreat pain.

4., ..6 -1857), Maria (1789 SEDGWICK, Catharine US writer. 1 Like most Sedgwicks, Catharine was very fond of her nativetown, Stockbridge, Massaof the clan chusetts, wherethe burialmarkers in concentric knownasthe arearranged circles Sedgwick Pie.Someone onceremarked to Miss Sedgwick that shespokeaboutStockbridge as "l expectno very violent if it were heaven. transition," shereplied. &r, .8

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Graffiti are everywhere on the Harvard Bridge,linking Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, but none are as prominent as the regular "Smoot" markings alongthe bridg. walkways. In 1958, whenOliverReed Smoot,Ir., pledge wasa freshman at the MassachusettsInstituteof Technology, his fraternity, LambdaChi Alpha,decided to use Mr. Smootasa unit of measure to mark off the bridge.Smoot was five feet, six inches longat the time,whichmakes the bridge exactly 364.4Smootslong, plus one ear. -The BostonGlobeMagazine, NovemberLI, "1,984

gratefulsheremained with the Sedgwick family for the restof her life. Ar, q8 SEDLEY, Sir Charles(1,639-1,701), English playwrightand wit. His writingsenioyed a high reputation amonghis contemporaries, who also reueled in gossip abouttheauthor's scnndalous personal life. I Sir Charles had one daughter, Catharine, a shrewd andwitty girlwhomJames, theDukeof York, made his mistress.\ilfhen the duke ascended the throne as James II, he resolved not to seeher again, but within threemonths their intriguewasrevived. In 1,686 creJames ated CatharineCountessof Dorchester. Sir his own notorietyas a liberCharles, despite tine,wassincerely upsetby hisdaughter's situation. "I hateingratituder" he said,"and asthe king has mademy daughtera countess I will endeavor to repaythe civility by making his daught er a queen." Thishedid by votingJames II out of office in preceding the Parliament the GloriousRevolution of 1588,which broughtJames's daughter M"ry and her husband,'$fi[iam of Orange, to the English throne. Ar, 48 SEELEY, Sir John Robert(1834-95), British historianand essayist. I In 1869Seeley succeeded Charles Kingsley in the chairof Modern History at Cambridge, had resigned which Kingsley on groundsof ill health.Dr. William Thompson, the Masterof Trinity College, observed afterSeeley's inaugural lecture,"Well, well, I did not think we couldsosoonhave hadoccasion poor to regret Kingsley." A.' 4S (1900SEFERIS, George Seferiades] [George 71), Greek poet and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prizefor literaturein 1.963. 1 (The Englishwriter and classical scholar PeterLevi met Seferis in Athensin 1953.) "'Wetalkedaboutmermaids. He saidpeople knew he had a passion for them,and senthim presents of mermaids. Therewasa mermaidof bread, I think from southern Italy, hanging

SEDGWICK, John (1813-64),US generAl. I During the battle of the rilTilderness in the 'War, Civil the general was inspecting his troops.At onepoint he cameto a parapet over which he gazedout in the direction of the enemy.His officerssuggested that this was unwiseand perhapshe ought to duck while passing "Nonsense,"snapped the parapet. the general."They couldn't hit an elephantat this dist-" books say that General {The reference Sedgwick waskilled in actionat the battle of the \Tilderness.) Ar, -8 SEDGWICK, Theodore (1746-1813),US of the Houseof Representatiues iudge;Speaker (1799-L801). had a black servantcalled I The Sedgwicks Mumbet, who rearedthe Sedgwickchildren insane. when their mother became One d"y Mumbet heard the Declaration of Independencebeingreadout at a town meeting. The following dayshewent to seeTheodoreSedgwick in his office."Sirr" shesaid,"I heardthat we areall born equal,and everyone of us has promptly the right to be free." Mr. Sedgwick a suit on Mumbet'sbehalfand a decree began was obtained in her favor. Mumbet was so

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496 playedso many roles he sometimes was not onceby t sureof hisown identity.Approached fan who askedhim, "Are you PeterSellers?" Evans says Sellersansweredbriskly, "Not today,"and walkedon. A$' '4 (L71,9-91,), BritAugustus SELWYN, George ish politician,eccentric, and wit. HoraceWalpolesaidof him, "He louednotbingupon earth so well as a criminal, exceptthe executionol himj' | \il7henHenry Fox, Lord Holland, was dying,Selwyn calledon him and left his card. His lordship, told thathisold friendhadcalled, instructedhis footman, "lf Mr. Selwyncalls showhim up. If I amalive, again, I shallbeglad to see him,andif I amdead, I amsure hewill be delighted to seeme." 2 PoliticianCharles Fox askedSelwynif he had attended the execution of a highwayman, also called CharlesFox. RepliedSelwyn,"I
never attend rehearsals.o' 3 Robert Walpole once remarkedin Selwyn's hearing that the British systemof politics was the sameunder GeorgeIII as it had beenunder his grandfather, George II, and that there was nothing new under the sun. "Nor under the grandson," put in Selwyn. {This remark has also been used in the - father, context of three generations son, and grandson- sharing the same mistress, and is attributed to other wits.) 4 Staying at the fashionable resort of Bath out of seasofl, Selwynwas compelled for want of better company to cultivate the acquaintance of an elderly bore. Some months later they met again by chance in a smart London thoroughfare at the height of the London season. Selwyntried to slip pastunnoticed, but the older gentlemanhailedhim, saying,"Don't you recollect me?" "Perfectlyr" said Selwyn, "and when I next go to Bath I shall be most happy to become acquaintedwith you again." 5 A fashionablesociety beauty was showing off her new gown, which was covered with silver spanglesthe size of shillings. "How do you like it?" she asked George Selwyn. "You

there wall.It hadbeen against thewhitegarden I saidshewas young,for a merthreeyears. maid.'But it is old,' he said,'for bread."' Ae, q8 SELLERS, Peter (1925-80),British comic actor.He madehis nnmein the radio comedy The Goon Show,first broadcast in the series 1950s. He alsoappeared in manyfilms,notably I'm All Right, Jack (1959),Dr. Strangelove (1963) in which , andthe" Pink Panther"series, heplayedthebungling detectiue Inspector Clouseilu. I In their London flat one afternootr, Sellers was busy in his study while his wife was working in the kitchen. On hearing the doorbell ring, Anne Sellerswent to the door and was presentedwith a telegram.The message read: "Bring me a cup of coffee.Peter." 2 Sellersonce received the following letter from a Goon Show fan: "Dear Mr. Sellers,I have been a keen follower of yours for many yearsnow, and should be most grareful if you would kindly send me a singedphotograph of yourself." Encouraged by fellow-comedian Harry Secombe,Sellerstook the writer at his word. With the flanreof his cigarettelighter, he carefully burned the edges of one of his publicity photographsand sentit off by return mail. A couple of weeks later, another letter arrived from the sameaddress."Dear Mr. Sellersr"it read, "Thank you very much for the photograph, but I wonder if I could trouble you for another as this one is signed all round the edge." 3 Blake Edwards,who directed Sellers in the "Pink Panther" films, did not find him the easiest person to work with. One night, having wasted an entire day on one particular scene, Edwards was awakened by ^ phone call from Peter."I just talked to God," he saidexcitedly, "and He told me how to do it." The following day, Edwards set the cameras rolling to capture the resultsof Sellers's divine inspiration. The results were disastrous. "Peterr" sighed the harasseddirector, "next time you talk to God, tell Him to stay out of show business." 4 lnThe Mask Behind the Ma.sft, PeterEvans, biographer of Peter Sellers,says that Sellers

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A.' at SENECA, Lucius Annaeus(?4 Bc-65 AD), author, and philosopher; Roman statesman, tutor and aduiserto EmperorNero until he fell to commit suicide. from fauor and uas obliged Nine of his playssuntiue. influenceupon the vicious and I Seneca's mad Nero grew weakeras the yearspassed. tried to curb his charge's Nonetheless, Seneca "Howcruelty,warninghim on one occasion, evermanyyou put to death,you will neverkill your successor.tt Ar, '.8 SERVETUS, Michael (1511-53),Spanishandphysician.His unorthodox borntheologian bothRomanCathuiewson theTrinity angered as and ledto his execution and Protestants olics a heretic. 1 Hiding from the Inquisition in Calvin's was caught,tried, and conServetus Geneva, to be burnedat the stakefor hisviews. demned "I will burn, but this is a He saidto his judgs, 'Sfe shallcontinueour discusmereincident. sionin eternity." Al,d SEUSS, Dr. [Theodore Seuss GeiselJ (1904- ), US humorouswriter and illustrator of children'sbooks. 1 An eight-year-old once sent him a letter you surethunk up a lot "Dear Dr. Seuss, , saying: i of funny books.You surethunk up a million i funny animals. . who thunk you up, Dr. 1Seuss?" Al, '.8 SE,VIGNE,Marie de Rabutin-Chanral, Marquisede (1626-96),Frenchwriter, known for her brilliant letters.

I (Thefollowinganecdote is keptin the original French since it does not lenditselfto translation.) A sa fillt qui lui demAnde:"Est-ce urai, mAdame, Qil,dans un diner, ricemment le mot 'foutre' uottsait 6chappA?" "Non," rpond-elle, "i'ai dit F et i'ai pass6 orJtre." 6., 48 -72), US SEWARD, William Henry (1801 statesman. Gouernor of New York and later a senator hewasa stalwartoppofrom that state, nent of slauery.He became secretary of state under Lincoln and in 1857 arrangedthe purchase of Alaskafrom Russia, A mouebranded "seward'sfolly" by his enemies. in which Stephen A. Douglas I After a debate had delivered "niggera fi.ry diatribe against worshipers,"Sewardwalked home with him hopedto from theCapitol.Awarethat Douglas securethe Democraticpresidentialnomina"Douglas, tro manwill remarked, tion, Seward ever be presidentof the United Stateswho negrowith two g"." spells 2 Seward wasin an assembly of peoplewho ; wr speculating about the probabledestinamovement tion of a secret of troops.A lady, : noticing his silence,challenged him: "'Well, Governor Seward, you make of it? what do 'Where do you think they are going?"Seward srniled."Madam," he replied,"if I did not know I would tell you." 4., ..S SHAFTESBURY, Anthony AshleyCooper, lst Earl of (I52L-83), British stAtesmAn. He began as a supporterof Charles/, thenioined and fi"ally made his the Parliamentarians, peacewith Charles II. Hauing becomelord chancellor in 1.57 2, hewasdismissed thefollowing year.Later restored to office,he supported theDukeof Monmouth'srebellion,wlscharged with high treason, and fled to Holland. | 1 Shaftesbury's religiousbeliefsremaineda mystery;very likely he was a deist. He once that all wisemenareof but one reliremarked gion."Which is that?"hewaspromptlyasked. "'Wisemen nevertellr" he replied. 2 Charles II, hearing somegossip aboutLord remarked to him jestingly, "l Shaftesbury,

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was godfather to one of Ben 3 Shakespeare g apJonson's children and after the christenin pearedsunk in deepthought.Jonsonaskedhim replied that what was the matter. Shakespeare he had beenponderingwhat to give the child as a christeningpresent,but now he had made up his mind: "l'll give him a dozen good latten spoons and thou shalt translatethem." {The ultimate sourceof this witticism is a collection of "Merry Passages and Jests" in a manuscript in the British Library. Latten was a yellow metal, similar to brass in composition, which was commonly usedfor householdutensilsin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries;the second part of the pun relies upon the alchemists'supposedpractice of "translating" base metals.ilto gold. Whether apocryphalor not, this is a pleasantillustration of the difference that their contemporaries perceived between the learnedBen and the "unlatined" Shakespeare.) 4 Once when Shakespeare was acting the role of a king, Queen Elizabeth thought she would seeif she could distract him from his part and purposely let her handkerchief flutter to the stageat the actor's feet. Shakespeare did not hesitat e. "Take up our sister'shandkerchief," he instructed one of the stagecourtiers in his train. {There seemsto be no reliable contemporary source for this pretty tale. Compare the old theatrical tradition that Shakespeare neverreachedany eminence as an actor greaterthan that of the ghost in his own Hamlet.)

believe you're the wickedest rogue in England." "Of a subject,sire, I believeI am," was the prompt reply. {BenjaminDisraelialsosawthe versatility in "subject." SeeDlsnaELI 5.) Ar, "o8 EnSHAKESPEARE, William (1 554-151,6), glish dramatist. He came to London from his natiue Stratford-upon-Auon probably in the mid-1580s. By the time he joined an acting company known as the Lord Chamberlain's poet Men in 1594,he was alreadyan established and playwright with patronage in court circles. Shakespeare'sown acting abilities were not great, and he was fortunate to haue other actors of stature to createsuch roles as Hamlet, plays are Lear, and Richard III. Shakespeare's known and performed in euery country of tbe ciuilized world, and he is consideredthegreatest of playwrights. Yet comparatiuely ft* definite facts are known about his life, nor Are the handful of anecdotes ebout bim necessnrily autbentic. | "Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I havebeen told heretofore by some of the neighbors,that when he was a boy he exercisedhis father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." that "the neighbors" were pull{It seems ing someone'sl.g; John Shakespeare, the poet's father, was a glover. This story, told by John Aubrey, would be more likely to have originated among Shakespeare's rivals on the London literary scene.) 2 At a time when Richard Burb agewas playing the title role in Richard III, he made an assignationwith alady who lived near the playhouse. "Announce yourself as Richard III," shesuggested cautiously- asuggestion Shakespeareoverheard.The dramatist slipped out of the theater before the end of the play and hastened to the woman's lodgings. Here he announced himself as Richard III and was admitted to her bedroom. A short while afterward a messagewas brought up that "Richard III" was at the door. Shakespeare sent a messageback to Burbage, saying that rUfilliam the Conqueror came before Richard III.

4., ..S Omar [Michel Shalhoub] SHARIF, (1932- ), Egyptianactor. His films include Lawrence of Arabia (1952), Dr. Zhivago (1965), and FunnyGirl (1958). | "Tell ffi, Mr. Sharif,"askeda journalist, "with your reputationas a ladykiller,what should one talk to women about?" "Their beauty, of course," repliedthe actor without hesitation. "But what if theyareugly?""Then aboutotherwomen's ugliness." &.' q8 Britishwriter. SHARP, William (1855-1905) In the 1890s his work assumed a mystical cast,

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often drawing upon Celtic myth and legend. These productions appeared under the nom de plume "Fiona Macleod," and Sharp strongly insisted on her separateexistence. 1 The Englishscholar'W.P. Ker learnedfrom a mutual acquaintancethat Sharpalways wore women's clothing to write his "Fiona Macleod" romances."Did he?The bitch!" saidKer. 4., q8 SHAW, George Bernard (1356-1950), Irish playwright. Born in Dublin, he went to London at tbe age of twenty, where he remained for the rest of bis life. After writing firt unsuccessful nouelshe becamea music and drama critic and an actiue socialist. He wrote more than forty plays, many of which haue retained their enormous popularity. He was a witty speaker and writer of letters. I When Shaw was a young man just embarking on his lite rary career, he met Oscar til7ilde, then at the height of his fame, in the rooms of a mutual friend in London. Shaw told the company about a magazine that he intended to found, speakingwith such enthusiasmthat his Irish brogue became increasingly evident. Eventually Oscar Wilde interrupted to saythat Shaw had not told them what the magazine would be called."Oh, asfor that, what I'd want to do would be to impressmy own personality on the public - I'd call it Shaw's Magazine. Shaw,Shaw; Shaw," he went otr, pounding the table. "And how would you spell it?" inquired \filde. 2 Before Shaw became famous, one of his plays was consistently turned down by t certain producer. After Shaw achieved success, the producer suddenly cabled an offer to stage the rejectedwork. Shaw cabled in reply: "Better never than late." Shaw was still a music critic, he was 3 rU7hile dining with a friend in a restaurant that provided for entertainment an orchestra that was at best mediocre. The leader, recognizing Shaw, wrote him a note asking him what he would like the orchestrato play next. "Dominoesr" replied Shaw. 4 The first performance of Arms and the Man (April 21, 1894) was boisterous. The author

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took a curtain call and was received with cheers. \(hile they were subsiding, before Shaw could utter a syllable,a solitary hiss was heard from the gallery. It was made by R. Goulding Bright, who later becamea very successfulliterary agent. Bright hissed,it later appeared,under the misapprehension that Shaw's satire on florid Balkan soldiers was, in fact, a reflection on the British army. Shaw did not know this at the time, however,and ashe stood on the stagehe raised his hand to silencethe cheers.Bowing in Bright's direction, he said,"I quite agreewith you, sir, but what can two do against so many?" 5 The Theatre Guild had started rehearsals for the American premiere of Shaw's Saint J oan. Everything was progressing smoothly, except that the play was found to run for three and a half hours, long past the normal curtain time. Suburban playgoerswould miss the last trains home. This information was cabled to Shaw, together with a request that he cut the play. Back came the reply: "Begin at eight or run later trains." 6 The successof Shaw's dramatic writings to his socialisticideals. was an embarrassment To the play representativewho had sent him a draft of money with promise of more to come, he wrote: "Rapacious Elisabeth Marbury: What do you want me to make a fortune for? Don't you know that the draftyou sent me will permit me to live and preach Socialismfor six months? The next time you have so large an amount to remit, pleasesend it to me by installments,or you will put me to the inconvenience of having a bank account." 7 "George Bernard Shaw, a staunch vegetarian, refused to attend a gala testimonial becausethe bill of farewas a vegetarianmenu. He 'The thought of two thousand people i said: i crunching celery at the same time horrified
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8 During the rehearsalsof Pygmalion, Shaw, dissatisfiedwith Mrs. Patrick Campbell's rendering of Eliza Doolittle, ticked her off for her flamboyant style. Mrs. Pat, unused to such treatment, remarked, "You are a terrible man, Mr. Shaw. One d^y you'll eat a beefsteakand then God help all women." The vegetarian Shaw blushed-perhaps.

BERNARD sHArr, GEORGE 9 It is said that the dancer Isadora Duncan wrote to Shaw that good eugenics indicated they should havea child together. "Think of it! With my body and your brains, what a wonder it would ber" she said. Shawreplied, "Yes, but what if it hrd my body and your brains?" 10 "At a performance given by an ltalian string quart(:t, Shaw's companion remarked approvingly, l'Thesemen have been playing to'Surelyr' 'we gether for twblve years.' said Shaw, have been here longer than that."' At a dinner party one evening, Shaw sat n next to a pompous young bore who proved to be a mine of uninteresting information. After suffering his neighbor's interminable monologue throughout the meal, Shaw observed, "You know, between the two of us we know all there is to know." His interlocutor was fascinated. "How is that?'n he asked. "'$fellr" replied Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you're a bore. And I know that!" 12 The military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart once observedto Shaw,"Do you 'sumac'and 'sugar'are know that the only two words in the English languagethat begin with su and are pronounc ed shu?" "Surer" answered Shaw. {Authenticity not guaranteed.} Shaw was once approached by the adver\ tf i tising executive of a company manufacturing electric razorsrin the hope that the great writer would endorse their new product by shaving off his beard. By way of reply, Shaw explained the reason why he, and his father before him, had chosen to grow a beard. "l was about five at the timer" said Shaw,"and I was standingat my father's knee whilst he was shaving.I said to him, 'Daddy, why do you shave?' He looked at me in silence,for a full minute, before throwing ''Sfhy the razor out of the window, sayitrg, the hell do I?' He never did again." I t+ An anthologisr wrote ro Shaw requesting , permission to include one of his pieces in an i anthology. He explained that he was a very I young man and therefore would not be able to : pay Shaw'susual fee. GBS responded,"I'll wait for you to grow up." 15 Arnold Bennett visited Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers,

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20 A country clergyman, hearing that Shaw was an expeft in the brewing of coffee, wrote to ask him for the recipe. Shaw obliged, adding as an afterthought that he hoped the request was not an underhanded way of obtaining his autograph. The clergymancut Shaw'ssignature from the letter, returned it with a note thanking him for the coffeerecipe,and concluded:"I wrote in good faith, so allow me to return what it is obvious you infinitely prize,but which is of no value to D, your autograph." 2l Shaw once came acrossa copy of one of his works in a secondhandbookshop. Opening the volume, he found the name of a friend inscribed in his own hand on the flyleaf: "To

501 i with esteem, Bernard George Shaw."He ptomptly bought the bJok and returnedit to i I his friend, adding the inscription:"\fith renewedesteem, GeorgeBernardShaw." I 22 In conversation with Shawand his wife, writer PatrickMahony askedMrs. Shawhow manyfemale shehadcopedwith herhusband's By way of reply,Mrs. Shawbegan admirers. to "After we weremarried recountan anecdote: my husband. who pursued therewasan actress suicideif shewerenot allowed Shethreatened
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like a manof ninetyshouldlook. Everyone else looks older because of the dissolute livesthey lead." Ar' 48 SHAW, Irwin (1913-84),US nouelist.His political and sobooks,inuoluingcontemporary cial themes, includeThe Young Lions (1948) The TroubledAir (1951), and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970). ! 1 After waitinganunacceptably longtime for the waiterto takehis order in a Frenchrestaurant, Irwin Shawwasfinallyapproached by the maitred'h6tel.When the man informedShaw that snails werethe specialty of the house,the writer nodded his head."I knowr" he said, "and you'vegot them dressed aswaiters." 2 Shawwasin an airport about to go to Europe. \(rith him washis smallson,who clearly did not want to go anpvhereand was causing of an uproar.\7hen airlineofficials something waswrongwith the child, something suggested Shawsaid,"Not at all. He's just my troubled heir." Aro {6 SHAW, Wilbur (1902-54),US racingdriuer, winner of theIndianapolis500. first three-time He was presidentof the Indianapolis Motor at the time of his death in a plane Speedway crasb. 1 Shaw wasfrustratedat Indianapolis until he ageof thirtywon his first 500 at the advanced five.He wasleading runner-up RalphHepburn by three miles(morethan a lap on the 2l-mile course)with thirty-fivelaps left when an oil leak developed. Findingout from his pit crew that he was one minute and fourteenseconds ahead of Hepburn, Shaw swiftly calculated how muchhe couldslowdown to conserve his dwindling oil and still finish ahead.He cut speed Hepburnstaftedto catchup, drastically; passed Shawto "un-lap" himself,and now on the samelap spedaround,alwaysclosingthe gap.On the last turn of the last lap Hepburn came evenwith Shawand nosedahead,but Shawtook a chance, accelerated, and crossed the finishline 2.'1,6 seconds in front. His engine quit as he pulled into "Victory Laner" but he had won the closestrace in Indianapolis 500 history. "I don't wish to be immodest,but

"And did shedie of a brokenheart?" "Yes, she didr" interrupted Shaw. "Fifty years later."
23 Showing a friend the ponrait bust sculpted for him by Rodin, Shaw remarked: "lt's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seemsto get younger and younger." 24 Once when sitting for the photographer Yousuf Karsh, Shaw said that Karsh "might make a good picture of him - but none as good as the picture he had seen at a recent dinner pafty where he glimpsed, over the shoulder of his hostess, a perfect poftrait of 'Cruel, you understand, a diabolical himself: caricature,but absolutely true.' He had pushed by the lady, approaching the living image, and found he was looking into a mirror!" 25 On July 26, L946, Shaw celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Interviewed by journalist, he commented: "I've been offered"titles, but I think theyget one into disreputablecompany." Ie Among the guests George Bernard Shaw received on his ninetieth birthday was Fabian, Scotland Yard's celebrated detective. At Fabian's suggestion Shaw agreed to have his fingerprints recorded for posterity. To the amazement of both, Shaw's fingerprints were so faint no impression could be obtained. "Wellr" announced Shawr"had I known this sooner I should cenainly have chosen another profession." 27 On a visit to GBS shortly after Shaw's ninetieth birthday, comedian Danny Kaye sought to compliment the plapvright by saying, "You're a young-looking ninety." "Nonsenser"came the crusty reply. "l look exactly

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sometimes smart pays offr" remarked Shaw later. As, q8 SHEARING, George[Albert] (1,919- ), US jazz pianist, born in Britain. Blind from birth, he made bis name in British iazz clubs before settling in the United Statesin 1947. His compositions include "Lullaby of Birdland" (1945). I Asked by an admirer whether he had been , blind all his life, Shearing replied. "Not yet." {A variant of a traditional retorr.} 2 One afternootr, at rush hour, he was waiting at a busy intersection for someoneto take him acrossthe street when another blind man tapped him on the shoulderand askedif Shearing would mind helping him ro ger across. "'What could I do?" saidShearing afterward. "l took him acrossand it was the biggestthrill of my life." As, q8 SHEEN, Fulton J[ohn] (1895-1979), US Roman Catholic clergymnn, educator, and author, created a bishop in 1951. He broadcast regularly on the radio from 1930 and was An instructor of Catholic conuerts.His writings includeThe Moral Universe(1 936)and War and Guilt (1941). I Accepting a televisionaward for spontaneiry, comedian Garry Moore facetiously paid tribute to "the four guys responsiblefor my spontaneity-my writers." The next award went to Fulton Sheen."l also want to pay tribute to my four writers," said the bishop. "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John." 2 Having studied his contract for atelevision program in detail, the bishop came to the conclusion: "The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away." 3 In Baltimore to addressan interfaith rally, Bishop Fulton J. Sheenwasgreetedby "pplause upon his appearance. He raised a hand for silence,then said: "When you applaud me at the start, that's faith; midway through, that's hope. But, ah, my dear friends, if you applaud me at the end, that will be charity!" 6s, q8 '

Askedwhy he robbedbanks, the notorious Americanbank robberWillie Sutton is reputedto haveremarked, "Because that'swherethe moneyis." \ilfhite, - Theodore Americain Search of Itself

SHELBURNE, William Petty,lst Marquis of -1 805), British politicinn. Lansdowne (1,737 I In March 1780 Lord Shelburne fought a duel with a Lieutenant Colonel William Fullerton over some remarks that the former had made in the House of Lords. Shelburnewas slightly wounded in the groin. As his anxious secondsbent over him, he reassured them, saying, "l don't think Lady Shelburnewill be the worse for it." 8s, "48 SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851), British author. The daughter of political radicals and writers William Godwin and Mary'Wollstonecrnft, she eloped with ShelIey, wbo married her in 1816 after the death of Harriet, his first wife. While liuing in Italy with Shelley shewrote Frankenstein(1518)and after Sbelley'sdeath prepared editions of his works. 1 During the summer of 181,6 Byron and Shelley were neighbors on the shores of the lake of Geneva.The two poets, together with Byron's friend Dr. John Polidori and Shelley's companions,Mary Godwin and her stepsister Claire Clairmont, spent many an eveningconversing.One night Byron initiated a discussion of ghosts and the supernatural. Polidori recalled that Shelley was so distressedat the conversationthat he ran from the room, mainas taining that he had seenthe women's breasts eyes. Meanwhile Byron suggestedthat all of them write their own ghost stories. From this evening emerged an effort begun by Byron about the ruins of Ephesus, nevercompleted;a tale by Polidori eventually published as The Vampyre; and, by the seventeen-year-old M"ry, the tale of Frankenstein-a story that probably hasfrightenedmore peopleand led to more spin-offsthan any other ghost story in the world.

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hismother."Oh, exclaimed I think for himself!" him to think like otherpeople!" \ -y God,teach \ {pt rcy Florence Shelleywas sent to \, Harrow.) F., -8 (1792-1,822), British Bysshe SHELLEY, Percy poet. atheistic, mystic, RebellioLts, Romantic as, next to Shakewas onceconsidered Shelley influencein Englishpoetr!, thegreatest speare, In the twentieth Spender. to Stephen according century his reputation suffered,but recently his dazzlingimaghauereinuestigated scholars power. The irintellectual ery and remarkable to ltaly life led Shelley regularityof his personal years, in 1818,wherehe spenthis remaining writing most of his finestpoetry.
| (Thomas Jefferson Hogg records an early exploit of Shelley's.) As a young man he went on a short journey There was a full complement of in rural Sussex. on the outside of the coach, bu! passengers Shelleytook an inside seat and for a time had the interior to himself.Then the coach stopped and picked up a large elderly woman carrying two vast panniers, one filled with apples, the other with onions. In the stuffy coach the smell of apples,onions, and sweatyold woman soon becameoverwhelming. Seatinghimself on the floor, Shelley fixed his unwanted companion with a wild glare and began to recite Richard play -c6ps1 II's lament from Shakespeare's God's sake let us sit upon the ground . . ." When he got to the words, "All murder'dr" the old woman's neffe could standit no longer and sheyelledat the coach driver to stop and let her out. She duly exited, and Shelleywas able to complete his journey in comfort. 2 Early in 1822 Shelley's household was joined by the young English adventurer Edward J. Trelawny, a sportsman and extrovert who greatly admired the impractical and wayward poet. Trelawny found a deep pool in the river where he liked to bathe. One d^y, after watching Trelawny performing various aquatic feats, Shelley said wistfully, "Why can't I swim?" Trelawny immediately offered to teach

him. Shelleystripped off his clothes and leaped in - plunging straight to the bottom of the pool, where he hy motionless. Trelawny jumped into the water and managedto haul the poet out. Shelleywas not at all flusteredby the narrowness of his escape."I always find the bottom of the well and they saytruth lies there. In another minute I should have found it, and you would have found an empty shell. It is an easy way to get rid of the body." Only a few months later Shelleywas drowned while sailing near Leghorn in squally weather.

4., '.6 US SHERIDAN, Philip Henry (1831-88), aftr1y officer.His mostfamousfeatwasbis uictory at CedarCreek(1854),which he brought to about by a twenty-miledash on horseback He rally his troops againstthe Confederntes. later becamecommnnderin chief of the US aftny (1883). {i
with Indian chiefs at Fort Cobb in the then Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). \7hen the Comanche chief Toch-a-way was introduced, he said to Sheridan, "Me Toch-away, me good Indian." "The only good Indians I ever saw were deadr" retofted Sheridan. {This remark was modified later to the proverbial "The only good Indian is a d Indian.")

helda conference In Janu ary!869 Sheridan

2 While commanding the Military Division of the Gulf, Sheridan spent time at San Antonio, Texas. Asked by a local reporter his opinion of Texas as a country to live in, he answered,"If I owned two plantationsand one was located in Texas and the other one was in hell, I'd rent out the one in Texas and live on the other one." This comment was printed with a note from the editor that read: "'Well, damn a man that wonot stand up for his own country."

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Anglo-Irish playwright. Born in Dublin, he liued in England from childhood on. His bestknown comediesare The Rivals (1775) andThe School for Scandal(1777). He wAs managerof the Drury Lane Theatre in London and a member of Parliament from 1780 to 1812. Although he neuer achieued political power, he

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asking for a further twenty-five pounds to pay for a journey he had to make. On receivingthe inevitable refusal Sheridan complained, "My the sum you ask me dear fellow, be reasonable; for is a very considerableone, whereasI only ask you for twenty-five pounds." 8 Sheridan'stailor grew tired of asking the writer to pay off his bill. "At least you could pay me the interest on itr" he reasoned."It is not my interest to pay the princip?lr" replied Sheridan,"nor my principle to pay the interest.tt

acquireda reputationas a winy parliamentary orAtor.

I Lord Thurlow produced a bottle of particularly good Constantia wine, specially sent from the Cape of Good Hope, at a dinner at which Sheridan was a guest. Sheridan greatly appreciatedthe wine and tried, by praising and hinting, to persuadeLord Thurlow to bring out another bottle. The host, however, was determined not to be overgenerouswith this rare treat, and Sheridan eventually saw that his efforts were vain. Turning to his next neighbor, he gestured toward the decanter of Madeira and said, "Pass the decanter.I must return to Madeira since I cannot double the Cape." 2 A lady anxious to take a walk with Sheridan observedthat the weather had clearedup sufficiently for them to set out. Sheridan, equally anxious to avoid the tte-t-tOte, replied, "It may have cleared up enough for one, but not enough for two." 3 Two royal dukes, meeting Sheridanin London's Piccadilly, greeted him familiarly. Said one, "l say, Sherry, we were just discussing whether you are more rogue or fool." "Why," replied Sheridan, taking each duke by the arm, "I believe I am between both." 4 Once a senrant dropped a heap of plates with a tremendous crash.Sheridanrebuked the man, saying, "l suppose you've broken all of them.tt "No, sir, not oner" said the man. "Then, you mean to say you have made all that noise for nothing!" i5 Sheridan'sfinancial affairswere constantly i in disorder, and debt was a chronic state with I him. "Thank God, that's settledr" he is reported to have said, handing over an IOU to a i creditor. i 6 A long-sufferingcreditor importuned Sheridan to name a date for payment. "The day of iudgroentr" cried the harassedauthor. "But, , no - stay- that will be a busy d"y. Make it the d^y after." : 7 Sheridan had borrowed five hundred i pounds from a friend, who took every opportunity to remind him of the debt. On one such i occasion Sheridan added insult to iniury by

9 Edmund Burke was delivering one of his stupendous orations in the House of Commons. At the climax he underlined his point by brandishing the daggerhe had brought into the chamberwith him and plunging it into the desk in front of him. In the srunned hush that followed this piece of histrionics the voice of Sheridan was heard saying, "The honorable gentleman has brought his knife with him, but where's his fork?" 10 One of the nine members of Parliament controlled by the Earl of Lonsdale under the pre-Reform Bill electoral systemmade a highly bombastic speechin the House of Commons. Edmund Burke replied with savage and devastating sarcasm.The cheersand applauseat the end of his speechwere still echoingaround the House when Charles Fox entered and asked Sheridanwhat had beengoing on. "Nothing of consequencer"replied Sheridan,"only Burke has knocked down one of Lord Lonsdale's ninepins." n Sheridanhad been askedto apologizefor insulting a fellow member of Parliament."Mr. Speakerr"replied Sheridan,"l said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases." 12 Richard Cumberland was a dramatistspecializingin a brand of sentimentalcomedy that was rendered unfashionableby the comedy of Goldsmith and Sheridan. Nonetheless, he agreed to take his children to see Sheridan's School for Scandal.The children would have enjoyed themselves hugely,but everytime they laughed, Cumberland hissed, "What are you laughing dt, my dear little folks? You should not laugh, my angels.There is nothing to laugh

505 he snapped: at." Finally, in exasperation, 'When "Keepstill,you little dunces." this story later,he obsometime to Sheridan wasretailed in Cumberland sewed,"lt wasveryungrateful with his poor children to havebeendispleased for I went the other for laughing at my comedy; and laughed at it from night to seehis tragedy, to end." beginning (Cumberlandstronglydeniedthe truth of this story and eventuallyconvinced Sheridanof its falsehood,but in the had exacteda neat meantimeSheridan in his Cumberland revenge by satirizing underthecharTheCritic (1779) comedy acterof Sir Fretful Plagiary.) ..13 Like his father,Sheridan's son Tom was ,'perpetuallyshort of money. Father and son A few days later, ; ooc had a disagreement. i Sheridan told Tom that he had madehis will and cut him off with a shilling."f'm sorry to hear that, sirr" said Tom. Then, after a mo"You don't happen ment'sthought,he added, to havethe shillingaboutyou now, do you?" son Tom was talking some!t+ Sheridan's parabouta prospective i what sanctimoniously i liamentary called men who are "Many career. greatpatriots in the House of Commonsare saidhe. "For my own reallygreathumbuBSr" I will pledge ,paft, when I get into Parliament, myself to no partyrbutwrite uponmy forehead 'To Be Let."' in legiblecharacters "write "And underitoTomr" saidSheridan, ' 'Unfurnished."' 15 On the night of February24, 1809,the
House of Commons was suddenly illuminated by r blazeof light. It was learned that the Drury Lane Theatre, of which Sheridanwas the manager at that time, was on fire. A motion was who made to adjourn the House, but Sheridan, was in the chamber, said calmly, "'Whatsoever might be the extent of the private calamity, I hope it will not interfere with the public businessof the country." He then left the House and walked to Dru ry Lane, where he watched the blazing theater with apparent calm. \7hile he was sitting in the nearby Piazzacoffeehouse, a friend approached him and remarked on the philosophic calmnesswith which he bore his misfortune. Sheridan answered, "A man may surely be allowed to take a glassof wine by his own fireside."

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16 Sheridanwas sufficientlyintimate with IV to makegentlefun of his the future George suchas his habit of taking the idiosyncrasies, good that happened in Encredit for anything gland. After an unusuallyfine summer one year, Sheridanremarked,"What His Royal prideshimself upon Highness mostparticularly harvest." is the excellent 17 Sheridan showed little concern when warnedthat his heavydrinkingwould destroy the coat of his stomach."'W'ell,thenr" he replied, "-y stomachmust just digest in its waistcoat." Aro ..S (1820-91), SHERMAN, William Tecumseh planning,and in parUSgeneral.His strategic ticularhis marchto thesea(1564)from Atlanu of the werecrucialto the success to Sauannah, [Jnion forcesin the AmericanCiuil WAr. wassent I After the Mexican War, Sherman by PresidentZachary Taylor to suryey the landsof New Mexico,Arizona' newlyacquired and California.On his return, Taylor asked will our newposses"'Well,Captain, Sherman: spentin sionspay for the blood and treasure arid landshe had iust the war?" Recalling'the replied,"Betweenyou and explored, Sherman I feel that we'll haveto go to war ffi, General, again." Taylor was aghast."'What for?" he 'em take the darn country asked."To make saidSherman. backlo' in lZ During one of his many engagements washavingdifficulty in lS64rSherman Georgia front. He decided throughthe enemy breaking to sendGeneralCox's division to attack the positioned himselfon a left. Sherman opposing andgaveCox high hill to watch the operations his final ordersfor the circuitousmarch:"See here,Cox, burna few barns occasionally asyou flags, go along.I can't understand thosesignal but I know what smokemeans."
{3 Receiving a telegram from the Republican I convention asking him to be the presidential i candidatein 1884;Shermanwired back: "I will i not accept if nominated, and will not serve if \elected." , {This is better known in the pithier veri sion: "If nominated, I will not accept. If elected, I will not serre.")

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" 'You're a slimy,creepy,crummy crumbum at and alsoa pieceof raisincake,'Toots snarled Leo, who had thought up to that time that they 'You're imbecile.' a baseball were buddies. "'Why, Iou walrusr' screamedDurocher, 'when we beat Clevelandin the series you saidI was a genius- thanks to your help.' "'You bald-headed slob!' roared Toots. 'Why, if I was to name the 10 best baseball -' managslS "'Name them; go ahead and name them!' shoutedLeo. He was furious in this moment of ''Who's first?' he challenged Toots. truth. 'stengel?' 'Why, you "'Casey Stengel?' bawled Toots. baseballimbecile!The No. 1 baseballmanager is Leo Durocher!"' 3 "In Shor's,all men were equal,which is to say everybody was a crumb-bum. The celeto obsequious bowing and brated,accustomed scraping,encountereda different reception in the brick house. There was the night Charles Chaplin was annoyedby an invitation to wait in line for a table. "'It'll be about a half-hour, Charlie,'Toots bawled. 'Be funnv for the folks."' 4., 48 SHUTER, Edward (1728-76), British comic actor. 1 Chided for having holes in his stocking, Shuter replied that he would rather have twenty holes than one darn. "A hole is the accident of a day,while a darn is premeditated poverty." {This sayingis also attributed to others.) As, *t SIBELIUS, Jean (1855-1957),Finnish composer. In addition to his seuensymphoniesand his uiolin concerto he wrote seueraltone poems based on Finnish legends, including En Saga, The Swan of Tuonela, Finlandra,and Tapiola. He ceasedto compose in 1929, although An eighth symphony is thought to haue been written and subsequently destroyed by the composer. I Sibelius was hostingaparty at which many "\(/hy busiof those invited were businessmen. nessmen?"asked one of his other guests. "What do you talk about with them?"

SHI HUANGDI (late 3d century BC),first emperor of China. He wds notorious for the seuerity of his rule, during which he executed hundreds of opponents and burned all books that conflicted with his autocratic policies. Toward the end of his life he liued in total seclusion, gouerning through officials from whom he demanded instant obedience. 1 Shi Huangdi died while on ; journey to seek the elixir of life. Two of his confidants, Zhao Gao and Li Si, feared that the crown prince, who objected to his father's harsh regime, would dismissand perhapsevenexecute them if he became emperor. They therefore hatched a plan to place another of Shi Huangdi's sonson the throne. The first part of this plan involved concealingthe old emperor's death from the world. Enclosing the body in his traveling carrrage, they gaveorders to return to the capital. The weather was warm and the corpsesoon beganto putrefy. Zhao Gao and Li Si therefore affanged for the imperial carriage to be closely followed by a cart laden with rotting fish.The stenchof fish was so overpowering that not even the emperor's bodyguard detected the smell of the putrefying body, and the conspiratorssucceeded in reachingthe capital without the emperor'sdeath being discovered.There they usedthe emperor'ssealto sign a decree commanding the crown prince to commit suicide, whereupon they established their own candidate on the throne of China. A$, q8 SHOR, Toots (died L977), New York restaurant owner. I A fervent Giants fan, Shor was chatting one eveningin his place with Sir Alexander Fleming, the discovererof penicillin. A waiter told Shor that the Giants' managr,Mel Ott, had just arrived. "Excuse me," Shor said to Fleming, "but I gotta leave you. Somebody important iust
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2 "Toots once argued his dear friend Leo Durocher into a delicatetrap that looked like it would disrupt their palship. Toots, who conhad strategist, sideredhimselfa masterbaseball informed Durocher that he had madea colossal blunder, and Durocher told Toots he was insane.

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I "About music,of courser" repliedthe composer."I can't talk about music with musiAll they talk about is money." cians. alsoGeoncn BEnNARD See SHew L9.
6r, {6 SICKERT, Walter Richard (1850-1942), British Impressionist painter. Between 1895 and 1905 he produced two fire seriesof paintingsof Veniceand Dieppe. He is also knownfor and depiction of domestic his music-hall scenes life. I Two young men who cameto havetea with Sickert at his studio rather overstayed their welcome. As they were leaving, Sickert said, quite amicably, "And do come back, when you've a little lesstime to spare." 2 Sickert was on vacation in Dieppe with his friend, artist Walter Taylor. The two men went out to bathe one morning, Taylor remaining close to the shore as he was not a strong swimmer. Sickert swam out for about half a mile. Turning back, he saw that Taylor was in diffiashis friend sank culties and watched, helpless, below the surface.He immediately struck out for the shore, where he was amazed to find Taylor calmly sunbathing."Good God, man!" he cried. "I saw you sinking!" "Yes," replied Taylor in his slow, deliberate mannetr"l . . . did . . . sink, but. . . whgn o . . I . . . r e a c h e d ., . t h e . . . b o t t o m , L . . tlf said, o . to . . . myself, . . . I o, . walk l . .get. . .to. ! . , . . u p h i l l, . 1 . . s h a l . t h e . . . s h o r e . t A n d s o . .. 1 . . . w a l k e d . . . uphill . . and . ., here . . . l . . . amltt The astounded Sickert could only Basp, "\7hy does anybody ever drown!" 3 At a dinner party Sickert was in dazzling conversational form, much to the irritation of the novelist and portrait-painter \Tyndham Lewis, who himself liked to dominate the conversation. Toward the end of the meal Sickert insisted upon Lewis's acceptinga cigar:"I give you this cigarbecauseI so greatly admire your lightened writings." Lewis'smorose expression but only for amoment, as Sickert went otr, "If I liked your paintings,I'd give you a biggerone." Ar, '.8 SIDDONS, Sarah (1,755-183I),British tragic actress,sister of John and Charles Kemble and

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aunt of Fanny Kemble.Sheexcelled in Shakeroles. spearean I The daughterof the theatrical manager Roger Kemble,Sarahwas brought up in the stage environment.Her father nonetheless strictly forbade his beautiful and talented to marryan actor.Despite daughter thisprohiher affections bition, shebestowed on \U(rilliam Siddons, a lowly constituentof her father's The exasperated RogerKembleleccompany. turedSarah on herchoice, concluding with the statement that not only wasWilliam Siddons a memberof a dubiousprofession but alsothe worst one in the troupe."Exactlyr" saidSarah "No one cancall him an actor." sweetly. 2 When Sir Joshua Reynoldspainted his asthe Tragic famousportrait of Sarah Siddons hisname Muse,headded by workingit into the the examined borderof herrobe.Mrs. Siddons pictureminutelyandsmiled. Reynolds said,"I my could not losethis opportunityof sending name to posterityon the hem of your g rment.tt

3 (In 1783 SarahSiddons paid a call on Dr. Johnson, then in his seventies.) "When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened to be no chair ready for her, 'Madaffi, which he obseroing,said with a smile, you who so often occasion a want of seatsto other people, will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself."' 4 SarahSiddons'shigh dramatic style tended to spill over into her everydaylife. (As Sydney Smith obseryed of her at the dinner table, "It was never without awe that one saw her stab the potatoes.") In Bath to play some of her favorite tragic roles, she visited a draper's shop to buy some fabric. Picking up a piece of muslin, shelooked with greatintensity at the shopman and said with the utmost solemnity and dramatic effect, "Did you say, sir, that this would wash?" The draper suspectedthat he had a lunatic in his shop. Mrs. Siddons recollected herselfat the sight of his surprise,apologized, and repeated the question in a more normal tone of voice. 5 During a tour of the north of England, Mrs. Siddons was playing the role of a tragic queen who commits suicide by taking poison. At one

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performance,as sheraisedthe cup of poison to her lips, the spellboundsilenceof the audience was shattered by a shout of encouragement from the gallery: "That's reet, Molly. Soop it oop, ma lass,soop it oop." Ac' 48 SIDNEY, Sir Philip (1554-85),Englishwriter, soldier, and courtier, whose talents and charm made him the model of Elizabethan behauior. His posthumously published writings include the loue sonnets entitled Astrophel and Stella (1591), the prose romance Arcadia(1590),and the critical treatise An Apologie for Poetrie (1598). He died fighting the Spaniards in the Netherlands. I At Zutphen Sidney was wounded in the thigh. As he was being carriedalong to havethe wound dressed,he sufferedgreatly from thirst, owing to loss of blood. A water bottle was found and brought to him. Putting it to his lips, he caught sight of another wounded man, a humble soldier,looking longin glyat the water. Sidney at once passedthe bottle to him with the words, "Thy needis yet greaterthan mine." Seealso ArpxaNDER THE Gnner 9 and CoNrucIUs 2. 0s' qt SIEYES, Emmanuel-Joseph, Abbe de (17481835),Frenchclericand statesman. He had considerable influence ot)er the course of the ReuoIution. He later held postsunder Napoleon. I After the Terror, a friend inquired of the abbe what he had done during those terrible years. "l'ai udcu I sunrived]," he said. As' q8 SIGISMUND (1368-1437),Holy Roman Emperor (1414-37). 1 The emperor was once askedhis recipe for lasting happiness in this world. "Only do alwaysin health what you have often promised to do when you are sick," he replied. As, 48 SILLS, Beverly (7929- ), US operatic soprano. Sheioined the New York City Opera in 1955 and in L979 was named its director. I One of Miss Sills's elder brothers was a well-known obstetrician. Someone remarked

SILVERMAN, Fred (1,937- ), US broadcaster and former president of CBS. 1 A few daysbefore Yom Kippur Fred Silverman was askedby t friend if he would be going home for the holiday. Silverman askedon what dry the event fell. "Wednesday," the friend informed him. "'Wednesday?" cried Silverman. "You meanthey'vescheduled Yom Kippur opptrsite Charlie's Angelsi" As, e8 SILVERS, Phil (1912-85), US screen and teleuision comedian, well known to teleuision uiewers as Sergeant Bilko. 1 A friend of Phil Silverswho saw him as the Man Who Has Everything and could think of no gift specialenough,found the perfect solution when Silversarrived for a weekend visit, driving, appropriately, a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. "You won't need that bus this weeketrd," saidthe host. "Let me take it in for acheckup." Silversnot objecting, his friend arranged for the surreptitious overnight installation of a built-in bar, a high-fidelity cassetteplayer, a color television set, and a videocassetterecorder. The Rolls was delivered just before Silverswas to leave Mon d^y morning, and his friend remarked casually,"You'd better check before you start out, Phil, just to be sure everything is in shape." "Oh, that doesn't matterr" said Silvers. "lt's a rented car." As' aB SIMENON, Georges (1903-89) , Belgian nouelist. He is best known as the creator of Inspector Maigret, the Parisian commissaire de police, but the Maigret detectiue stories are only a small part of his prolific output. I As a young man Simenonwas proud of his athletic abilities.Once after a late-nightdiscussion in a Lidge bar with a stranger, he challenged the man to a hundred-yard dash. The course was marked off between lampposts in the desertedstreet.The racewas run. Much to

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Simenon's chagrin, the stranger held him to a tie. It was only afterward that he found out that the man was an Olympic runner. 2 One of the reasonsfor Simenon's prolific output was the speedat which he was able to produce a novel. Director Alfred Hitchcock happened to telephone him from the United States while he was working on his 158th novel. Madame Simenon took the call. "l'm sorry," she said, "Georges is writing and I would rather not disturb him." "Let him finish his book," replied Hitchcock. "I'll hang on."

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SINATRA, Frank (1915- ), US singer and in a numberof successfil* actor.He appeared frl films, including From Here ro Eternity (1953), for which he won an Oscar,Guysand Dolls (1955), and The Manchurian Candidate (1952). I In thesummer of L943rat the open-air Stadium in New York City, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world's greatest, gaveits usual distinguished performance.The guest"aftist" was Frank Sinatra, who came up with "Sunday, Monday, or At the closeof his Always" and similargems. performance, acknowledging the shrieks of his youngadmirers, turnedwith a gracious Sinatra gesture behindhim and to the dazedmusicians said,"On behalfof myselfand the boysin the 'thanks!' " band- I want to say 2 Havingsuffered a series of faintingfits,Sinhis doctor."How muchmoney atraconsulted askedthe doctor. do you earn,Mr. Sinatra?" "somewhere four hundredthousand between and a million dollarsa yearr" repliedSinatra "ln that case,"advised carelessly. the doctor, you go right out and buy yourself "I suggest from malnusomered meat.You're suffering trition." manymilesout of his often traveled 3 Sinatra way to visit hospitalizedfriends and sing to them. It was said that the more seriousthe he wasin visiting. illness, the morepunctilious from a minor One friend, who was suffering complaintbut wasafraidthatthe doctorswere not tellinghim the truth, awokesuddenly in his hospitalroom to find Sinatra at his bedside. The singer had beenin the neighborhood and "l had just calledin. The patientwasappalled. knew it!" he yelled."They've been lying to me!" Ary ..6 (1904- ), USwriter, Bashevis SINGER, Isaac born into aJewishfamily in Poland.His works, written in Yiddish, often deal with traditional Jewishlife in Poland;they includeGimpel the (1950), Fool (1957), The Slave and collections of short stories.SingerwAsawardedthe 1978 NobelPrizefor literAtttre. I An interviewerasked Singerwhether he was a vegetarian for religious reasons or

boulevardwith 3 Strollingdown ^ Parisian the playwrightMarcel Pagnolone afternooo, "Goodness, exclaimed, suddenly she Simenon must be very pretty!" Looking ahead,Pagnol could seeonly ^ coupleof youngmenwalking he asked. in their direction."'Who?\U7here?" "She's behind us," replied Simenon."Then "l can'tr" Pagnol. her?"asked how canyou see "But I can seethe look in the saidSimenon. men." of the approaching eyes 4., -8 SIMON, John Allsebrook, lst Viscount (1,87 3 -1,9 54), British politician;lord chancellor (1940-45).He MP formanyyears wasaLiberal (1905-78,1922-40), andhelda number of cabinet offices.
I Simon's talent for temporizing was not appreciated by other politicians. Lloyd George is 'John Simon has sat said to have complained, on the fence so long that the iron has entered his-er-soul." 6ro ..6 SIMON, Richard Leo (1889-1960),USpublisher. In 1924, with Max L. Schuster(18971971"),he founded the pubtishiing company Simon and Schuster. 1 Launching a new children's book, Dr. Dan the BandageMan, Simon decided to include a free gift of six Band-Aids with each copy. He cabled a friend at the manufacturers,Johnson and Johnson: "Please ship half million BandAids immediately." Back came the reply: "Band-Aids on the way. \7hat the hell h"ppened to you?" Ar, .8

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SITWELL, Sir GeorgeReresby(1850-1943), British antiquarian and eccentric. His foibles Are recalledby his son Sir Osbert Sitwell in his Tales autobiography and in his book of essays, My Father Taught Me (1952). I Having in a fit of unsociability banishedall visitors from his home, Renishaw Hall, Sir George was soon overcome by boredom. He confided to Osbert that he felt like taking a holiday and describedthe sort of hotel that he thought would suit him: a secluded country housewith fine grounds,good views,and a few congenialfellow gueststo whom he could talk. Osbert immediately recalled a newspaperadvertisement he had seen that morning for what was clearly an expensiveprivate institution for the mentally deranged.He described the "hotel" in glowing and inventive terms. Sir Georgeagreedthat it sounded exactly what he was looking for. Sir George'ssecretary was told to book a room for the month of September, and the whole Sitwell family joined in extolling the virtues of the supposedhotel. The eagerly awaited confirmation of the booking arrived. Unfortunately, the asylum director had added a postscript: "Ought a strait-waistcoat to be sent for Sir Georgeto wear during the journey, which will be made by van?Three strong and practisedmale nurseswill, of course, be in attendance, and prepared to quell any disturbance on the way." 2 (Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls a narrowly avertedcontretempsat atea party at which one of the guests was a certain Mrs. Brooke. Sir Georgehad begunthe conversationwith a spirited attack on modern art and from there he moved on to modern poetry.) "He was just saying: 'Then there was that - I young man who died in the Dardanelles forget his name- they try to make out he wasa genius,but no good, no good, I canassure lou,' I realizedwhy when with a startlingsuddenness Mrs. Brooke's face was so familiar-from photographsin the Press of Rupert Brooke: the resemblance was very marked; she must be his mother. I gavemy father a good kick under the tea-table,but he did not evenpause;only the as yet undreamt-of H-bomb could have stopped him. He went on: 'His poems were grossly over-praisedin the Press.' . . . I could hardly believemy ears.Could it be true that this was really happening, or was it just a nightmare

becauseof his health. "It is out of consideration for the chicken," he replied. 2 Singer was asked whether he believed in free will or predestination."'We haveto believe in free willr" he replied."'We'vegot no choice." A+ e4 SITWELL, Dame Edith (1887-1954),British poet, daughter of Sir GeorgeSitwell. Sheioined her brothers Osbert and Saclteuerellas rebels against bourgeois philistinism. Her most de (1922),a seriesof poems famous workis Faga recited to music composed by William Walton. I Miss Sitwell broke the news to her parents that she was leaving the family home. "I can write so much better when I'm aloner" she explained. "And you prefer poetry to human love?" asked her father. "As a professionr" replied Edith, "yes." 2 (Osbert Sitwell tells about a guest at the Sitwells' home, Renishaw Hall:) "A man whom we had neverseenbefore was wished on us for luncheon one d"y. He was placed next to my sister, and took it into his head to enquire of her: 'Do you rememberthis house being built, Miss Sitwell?' Mrs. [Alice] Keppel overheardthis, and saidto him quickly: 'My dear man, be careful!Not even the nicest girl in the world likes to be askedif she is four hundred yearsold."' 3 Edith Sitwell was accustomedto ferocious attacks on her poetry. At one gathering at which shehad beenreadingsome of her poems aloud, a woman came up to her and announced, "l just wanted to tell you, Miss Sitwell, that I quite enjoyed your last book of poems." Shepausedand then seemed about to go on when Edith Sitwell interrupted her. "Now please don't say any morer" she said. "You mustn't spoil me. It isn't good for me to be spoiled." \4 In 1954 Edith Sitwell was given the title Dame of the British Empire. On a visit to the United Statesan American came up to her and aggressively,"Why do you call isaid rather 'Dame'?" fyourself I "I don'tr" she replied. "The queen does."

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instalment of an instant in hell? Before, however, his memory could supply the missing name, the crowning horror was skilfully 'Sir averted. . . . Georger' our hostessbravely oyou intervened, are sitting next to Mrs. Brooke, the mother of that wonderful young poet, Rupert Brooke. I must tell you, becaus,' she proceeded, drawing on her imagination, 'before tea you were just sayingto me - but we were interrupted - how much you admired his 'how workr'and continued, different it is from the work of that other young poet - I, too, forget his name for the moment - of whom you were speaking.' "My father looked puzzled but said no more.tt A$ .4 English poet SKELTON, John (?1,460-1529), at the court of Henry VIII. He is best remembered for his lament for the death of a Pet bird, Phylyp Sparowe. I Enjoying the position of a licensedjesterat Henry VIII's court, Skelton could satirize the great and powerful with virtual impunity. At last, however, with Why Come Ye Nof to Courtel he went too far in his attack on Cardinal \7olsey, and the cardinal threw him into prison. In the Merie Tales, which contain a number of (probably fictional) anecdotes about Skelton, he is shown as kneeling before \tr(olseyto ask for pardon. The cardinal ranted at him for some time. At last Skelton said, "l pray Your Grace to let me lie down and wallow, for I can kneel no longer." A" 't6 SKELTON, comediAn. Red [Richard] (1913), US

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I In 1951 Red Skelton and a party of friends flew to Europ, where Skelton was to app earat the London Palladium. As they were flying over the SwissAlps, three of the airplane's engines failed. The situation looked very grave beganto pray. Skelton went and the passengers into one of his best comic routines to distract them from the emergency as the plane lost height, coming closer and closer to the ominous-looking mountains. At the last moment the pilot spied a large field among the precipitous slopesand made a perfect landittg. Skelton broke the relieved silence by sayirg, "Now, ladies and gentlemen,you may return

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512 Turning to Walker,Smithsaid,"Gee, I hopej we're right!" d interruption,of 2 Irritatedby the constant in the middleof "f aI heckler, Smithoncepaused "Go ahead, Al, don't let me bother speech. I you," shoutedthe heckler."Tell 'em all you I know. It won't take you long." Smith was\ quick to respond."lf I tell 'em all we both t knowr" he cried, "it won't take me any \ longer."
3 During one of his termsasgovernor of New York, Smith was late for a broadcast he was due to make. He haileda taxi to take him to the radio station, but the driver, who did not recognize the governor, refused to take him. He explained that he was in a hurry himself, anxious to be home in time to hear Governor Smith talk on the radio. Smith, flattered, held out a five-dollar bill and repeatedhis request. The driver's eyeslit up. "Hop in, mister," he said, "and to hell with the governor." Al, ..6

wrapped it up in a sheet of newspaper and rushed off to the station, where he just had time to thrust the packageinto his employer's handsasthe train moved away. During the long overnight journey, d customs officer boarded he askedashe the train. "Anything to declare?" passed through Slezak'scompartment. "No, nothing," replied the singer,who had been trying to catch a few hours' sleep.The customs officer glanced around the compartment. "Open that!" he snapped, pointing at the hastily wrapped package. With ill-disguised irritatioo, Slezak tore off the newspaper and uncovered the crown. The customs officer gasped. Then, standing to attentioD, he ex' claimed, "Oh! Incognito! Please excuse ffi, Your Majesty." A" 't8 SMITH, Adam (L723-90), Scottisheconomist and philosopher. His fame restson his Inquiry into the Nature and Causesof the \U(ealthof Nations (1776). I Smith was known for his absentmindedness.One Sunday morning he wandered into his garden wearing only a nightgown and soon in philosophicalcontemplabecameengrossed tion. Totally absorbed in his train of thought, he went out into the street and beganwalking in the direction of Dunfermline. He had covered the twelve miles to the town before the ringing of the church bells aroused him from his reverie. Regular churchgoers arriving for the morning servicewere astonishedto find the eminent philosopher in their midst, still clad only in his nightgown.

SMITH, Bessie (1894-1,937), US black iazz singer,known as the"Empress of the Blues." At the height of her fame in the 1920s she made records with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. I In September1937 BessieSmith, traveling with her white businessman agernear Clarksdale, Mississippi, was seriously iniured in an auto accident.The doctor who arrived on the scenedirected that the manager,who was suffering from concussion,should be sent to the nearbyhospital but that the singershould go to a "blacks only" hospital many miles away. She bled to death before she got there. Ar' 48 SMITH, F[rederick] E[dwin], lst Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), British banister and Consentatiue politicinn. He was attorney general from 1915until 1919,when he becamelord chancellor. In this capacity be wls responsible for the prosecution of the lrish nationalist Sir RogerCasement. An extremely capable lawyer w;ih a ready wit, Smith was the subiect of MargotAsquith's quip: "Very cleuer,but his brains go to his head." 1 A distinguishedOxford don had a panicular way of snubbing clever young undergraduI

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I Smith was in Albany for a political convention, along with James \il7alker,Herbert Lehman, and many others. One morning, after a night of heavy drinking, Smith and Walker, both Cadyalic, felt that they ought to go to early massasit was a Roman Catholic holy d"y. Tiptoeing through the hotel suite, they looked wistfully at Lehman and their otherJewish colleagues,who were still peacefully sleepingoff the effects of the previous night's excesses.

513 ates.He would invite the studentto accompany hip on a long walk, leaving it .to his After a companionto start the conversation. lengthysilence the embarrassed studentwould usuallymake somebanalremark,and would immediately be crushed by the don's reply. The undergraduate F. E. Smith,awareof the don'stactics,setoff for the walk with his own plan of action carefullyworked out. The two menwalkedin complete for morethan silence an hour, and for onceit wasthe don's turn to feelembarrassed. "They tell mer"hewasfinally compelled to utter, "they tell meyou'reclever, Smith.Are you?" "Yesr" repliedSmith.. No further word was exchanged until the men returnedto the college. "Goodbye,sirr" saidSmith,"I've so much enioyedour talk."
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5 Smith was conducting a lengthy and complicated casebefore a judge whom he regarded as slow and pedantic. As the case drew to its close, the iudge intimated that some of the issues involved were no longer clear to him, upon which Smith gavethe judge a short but very cogent account of all the issuesand their implications. As Smith sat down, the iudge thanked him courteously, but added, "I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, but I regret that I am none the wiser." Smith rose wearily to his feet again

way companyin a suit broughtby a boy who had beenblinded.The judgedirectedthat the boy belifted onto a chairso that theiury could him properly.Thinkingthismadean undue see emotional appeal to the iury'ssympathy, Smith protested: "Your Honor, wh)rnot pass the boy aroundthe iuty box?" The iudgerebukedhim for his improperremark."Promptedr" Smith impropersuggestion." said,"by an equally Preferringnot to pursuethat one,the judgetried to quashthe young lawyerby quoting Francis Baconat him: "Youth and discretionare illweddedcompanions." Smithwasreadywith a "My lord, the same counter-quotation: Bacon judgewaslike an alsosaidthat a much-talking ill-tunedcymbal."The judgefrowned."Now you are beingoffensive, Mr. Smithr" he said. "W. both "The difference arer" agreed Smith. fi '*is that I am tryingto be,andyou can'thelpit."
f\ 3 Smith once cross-examined a young mani 1 claimingdamages for an arm injury caused by, { the negligence of a busdriver."\fi[ you pleasef showushow highyou canlift your arrnnow?'l asked Smith.The youngmangingerly raised hiC arm to shoulderlevel,his face distortedwitli pain. "Thank your" said Smith. "And nowL please will you showushow highyou couldliff it beforethe accident?" The youngmaneagerlf' shothisarmup above hishead. He losthiscas{

"Possibly,my lord, but you are better in formed." powersof oratorybe6 WinstonChurchill's hisbroadcasts came a legend; to the nadonand his speeches in the Houseof Commons during World War II are world-famous. Not all his friends,however, werecomplimentary. In the L920s,for example, F. E. Smith complained, "'S7inston hasdevotedthe bestyears of his life his impromptuspeeches." to preparing 7 Smith annoyedthe patrons of London's AthenaeumClub, of *fri.t he was not a member, by frequenllymakinguseof their toilet facilities on hisway to the Houseof Lords. One daya porter drewhisattentionto the fact that the clubwasfor members only."Ohr" said Smith,"is it a club aswell?"
8 F. E. Smith was a guest at \il7ilton House. His host, Lord Pembroke, was showing him the family portraits. He explained that wheneverone of his ancestorshad had an illegitimate child their practice had been to give it the surname Montgomery. Smith turned this over in his mind and then said, "If such an untoward event should happen to me, God forbid that I should deny my child the name of Smirh." 9 Smith teased Lord Chief Justice Gordott I Hewart about the size of his stomach, asking f him if he was expectinga boy or a girl. "If it's ai

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young Scot said in a low voice, "I didna think the great Sir Sidneywas married." "Why, r, ooro' said Sir James,floundering f.or a moment before inspiration struck, "no, not exactly married- only an Egyptian slave he brought over with him. Fatima- you know - you understand." The nickname"Fatima" stuck to Mrs. Smith for a long time thereafter among her friends. 3 Vhen Francis Jeffrey was lord advocate, the polar explorerJohn Rosstried to persuade him to get the government to financean expeto dition to the North Pole.A man who agreed act as intermediary called on Jeffrey at an unlucky moment, when he was just about to go out riding and did not want to be detained. Jeffrey becamemore and more impatient and eventuallyburst out, "Damn the North Pole!" The aggrieved intermediary complained to "Never SydneySmith about Jeffrey'slanguage. mind," said Smith, "never mind his damning the North Pole. I have heard him speakdisrespectfully of the equator." 4 Sydney Smith becameembroiled in an ar- ! gument with a country squire who was being J fbusiue about the Churih of England. Th; f conclua:4 by sayingthat if lt. had a sonJ sq-uire who was a fool he would make him a parson.i "V.ry probably," 'of retorted Smith, "but I seei a different mind." your f"itttt *"i 5 A lady was moaning about the oppressive heat. Smith courteously agreed with her: "Heat, madam!It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." 6 The lady seatednext to him at dinner rejected an offer of gravy."Madam," saidSydney Smith, "l have been looking for a personwho disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship." 7 Sydney Smith was disturbed one morning at his work by self-important little man who " he was compiling a histo of announcedthat ry and was the distinguishedfamilies of Somerset calling to identify the Smith arms. Sydney Smitlr regretted he was unable to help: "The Smiths have never had any arms' and have intheir letterswith their thumbs." variablysealed

it's a girl I'll callher Mary. But if, asI suspect, it's only wind, I'll callit F. E. Smith." Taft makhasPresident {The USversion ing this retort to SenatorChauncey Depew.) As, e8 (1855-1945), British SMITH, LoganPearsall writer and critic. Smith was asked shortly I Logan Pearsall before his death whetherhe had found any in life. "Yes," he replied,"there it t , meaning ; meaning; at leastfor me,thereis onethiry that - to set a chimeof words tinkling m i' matters people." the mindsof a few fastidious As' '4 (177I-1845) SMITH, Sydney , Britishclergyman and author.He liuedAsa youngman in part of a brilliant Edinburgh,wherehe became andhelped andphilosophers circle of politicians found the EdinburghReview.His quick wit whenhe of Londonsociety madehim a fauorite mouedsoutb.
1 In Edinburgh Smith was out walking with a friend one day when they came across two women screaminginsults at each other from second-storywindows on opposite sidesof a narrow street. "Those two will never resolve their differences," Smith remarked to his premfriend. "They are speakingfrom separate ises.t' 2 At a garheringSydneySmith met the lawyer Mackintosh with his and philosopherSirJames young Scottishcousin,an ensignin one of the Scots regiments. The young man asked Sir Jamesin an undertone whether this was "the of great Sir SidneySmith," hero of the defense Acre against Napoleon in 1'799. Before Sir Jamescould put the young man right, Sydney Smith had embarkedon an account of the siege of Acre, completewith descriptionof gunsand attacks and counterattacks.The young ensign was entrancedby this displayof friendlinesson the part of the famousadmiral,while the rest of the party scarcelyknew how to keep a straight f ace. A few dayslater SirJamesand his cousin met SydneySmith and his wife walking in the street. Smith introduced his wife and they talked for a few minutes. As the Smiths moved otr, the

515 8 SydneySmith called on the newly appointed bishop of New Zealandro bid him farewell beforehe setsailfor hisdiocese. Bearingin mind the repuration of thenarive inhabitants as cannibals, Smith advised the bishop always to keep"a smoked little boy in the baconrack and a cold clergymanon the sideboard.As for yourselfr"he continued,"all I cansayis that whenyour new parishioners do eatyou, I sincerely hopethat you will disagree with them." ritl 9 S )mt ithI O < )n( rlai ce 3 COm rpl iln redof r thr rsiness tne : Pr! ro off r are )me so )m( S;er rerm m( ronl lSt g) r ' Threy on ng : w'ril ntten as if , sayir 'eto nw re r be be etaken sir ver :o r oul or t ( t o f ma r an n lil l ik ef'' E ve out of ( A( m - bv dan rtting h; rin )u m to sle e ep. eD.t Yp P v
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1,947; Smuts was sevenry-six and VaughanThomas some thirty-eight years younger. As the writer arrived at the summit, a full ten minutes after his companion, Smutsremarked with a smile: "Young man, at my age I haven't as much time as you for loitering." Ar, {8 SMYTH, Dame Ethel (1858-1944), British composer and author. Her struggleto becomea musician in the face of her father's opposition made her an ardent feminist. Sbe composed a number of large-scale choral works.

10 On receiving a basket of strawberries from one of his parishioners, Smithwrote in reply, "'Whatis realpiety? What is trueattachmenr to the Church? How are thesefine feelings best evinced? The answer is plain:by sending srrawberries to a clergyman. Many thanks."
ll Someoneremarked that philosopher and mathematician William Whewell's forte was science."Yesr" said Smith, "and his foible is omniscience." 12 A plan was mooted to lay awooden pavement around St. Paul's cathedral in London. "Let the dean and chapter lay their headstogether and the thing will be done," said Smith. 3 SydneySmith neverattainedthe eminence in the church that might have been expected, mainly because the Anglican esrablishmenr disapproved of his attitude toward Roman Catholic emancipation,evincedin the PeterPlymley Letters (1807-08). Comparing his own career with that of his brother, Robert Percy,Sydney Smith obsenred,"He rose by gravity; I sank by levity,"

I (Leonard andVirginialilToolf invitedDame Ethel, then quite elderly,to dinner at their houseat Rodmellin Sussex.) "DameEthelbicycled the twgntymilesfrom the village whereshelivedto Rodmell,dressed in rough tweeds.About two miles from her destination she decidedthat perhaps shewas not suitably dressed for a dinner party. She thoughtthat possibly corsets wererequiredto smartenup her figure.Accordingly,shewent into a village shopandaskedfor somecorsets. Therewerenone.Distressed, shelookedround the shop and her eyelighted on a bird cage, which shepurchased. About twenty minutes later,Virginiawent into hergarden to discover DameEthelin a stateof undress in the shrubbery struggling with the bird cage, which she was wrenchinginto the shapeof corsets and forcingunderher tweeds." Ary ".8 SNEAD, Sam(1912- ), US golfer.He won three Masters tournamentsand three ProfessionalGolfer s' Assoc iation cbampions hips,and wls stillplayingcompetitiuely whenin his sixties. I Passing through Rome in L96L, Snead stopped for an audience with PopeJohn.The golferhadnot beenplaying well for somerime, and he confessed to one of the papalofficials: "I broughtalongmy putter,on the chance that the popemight bless it." The monsignor nodded sympathetically. "l know, Mr. Sneadr" he said."My puttingis absolutely hopeless too." Snead lookedat him in amazement. "If you liue here and can't puttr" he exclaimed,"what chance is therefor me?" Ar, -8

A" a8 SMUTS, JatrChristiaan(1,870-1950), South Africanphilosopher prime minand statesman; ister of the Union of SouthAfrica (1919-24, L939-48), which he was instramental in forming in 1910. | \Triter and journalist\il7ynfordVaughanThomas onceaccompanied Smuts on a "morning stroll" up Table Mountain. The yearwas

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woman noticed the deception,the first woman refused to relinquish the baby. So they came before King Solomotr, each claiming that the living child was hers.The king commandedhis officers to bring a sword and when it was brought ordered that the baby be cut in two; one half would then be given to one woman and the other half to the other. The rightful mother, stirred with love and pity for her child, said, "O -y lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it." But the other woman said, "Let it be neither mine or thine, but divide it." The king, perceiving that the compassion of the first woman had idendfied her as the true mother, ordered that the baby should be given to her. {Among the most famous judgments in '\trVestern history.) Ar, ..6 SOLON (c. 639-c. 559 BC),Greek legislator and statesmnn.Coming to power in Athens in 594 BC,he remodeled the constitution, introduced new laws, reformed weights and measuresand the coinage,encouragedindustr!, and prohibited loans on the security of the borrower's person. I Solon's sweepingchangesnaturally camein for a good deal of criticism. Solon himself ac-, knowledged that there were imperfections inl his legal code. Challengedto say whether he had given the Athenians the best laws, he replied mildly, "No, but the best that they could receive." 2 Asked what measurescould be taken to eliminate law-breaking and crime within a state,Solon replied, "'Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel the sameindignation at it as those who are." AD, 48 SOMERSET, Charles Seymour' 6th Duke of (1,662-1748),Britisb courtier, known as "the Proud Duke." I The duke's first wife was Elizabeth,heiress to the great name and fortune of the Percys, dukes of Northumberland. When she died in L722, he married again; his second wife was Charlotte Finch, third daughter of the Earl of Nottingham. Charlotte once made the mistake of tapping playfully on her husband'sarm with

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of hisminisa meeting za called I KingSobhu to missions recent discuss to tersand advisers for no apParent Suddenly, otherAfricanstates. with the exhe askedall his officials, reason, Hynd, the ministerof ceptionof Dr. Samuel Turning to the doctor, Sobhellth, to leave. going." Hynd, a little sur"l am huza said, are "'Where questionr theobvious prised, asked you going?"By way of reply, the king simply smiled,raisedhis hand in a farewellgesture, and died. Ar, -4 SOCRATES (c. 469-399sc), Greekphilosopher. Although he wrote nothing himself,his ideassuntiuein thewritingsof Platoand Xenophon. Socrates brokewith earlierphilosophical traditionsand laid the foundationsfor the deto of both ethicsand logic.Refusing uelopment by the mob bow to tyrannlt whetherexercised wastried on thecharge Socrates or by oligarchs, the youngpeopleof Athensand of c:omrpting to deathby drinking hemlock. sentenced
I Knowing the frugaliry of Socrates'way of life, a friend was surprised to discover the philosopher studying with rapt attention some flashy wares on display in the marketplace. He inquired why Socrates came to the market, since he never bought anything. "I am always amazedto see iust how many things there are that I don't needr" replied Socrates.

2 Socrates'wife, Xantippe, visited him in the jury'scondemnation. prisonand bewailed "They are by their naturealso condemnedr" is unsaid."But the condemnation Socrates "'S[ouldyou preferit Xantippe. iust!"persisted to be iust?"askedSocrates.
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BC), kingof Israel. SOLOMON (c.973-c.933 He is renowned for hauingbuilt thefirst temple and for his greatwisdom, uthich at ! erusalem prouerbial. became 1 Two prostitutesliving alone in the same house had babieswithin three days of each other.Onebabydied,and its motherstolethe the other while the mother slept,substituting corpseof her own baby.Although the other

517 her fan to attract his attention.He turned on her and saidicily, "Madam,ffiy first wife wasa Percy, and shenevertook sucha liberty." Ar, ..6 SOPHOCLES(496-405 BC), Greek dramatist. He wroteabout 120 plays,which wonbimfame andpopularrlyamonghis contemporariesi only suraiue,amongthem Oedipui leuen tragedies Rex and Antigone. I At the ageof eighty-nineSophocles was broughtbeforea court of law by his son,who, suspecting that the playwrightintendedro cur him out of hiswill, wishedto have him certified as suffering from senility.Sophocles saidsimply, "If I am Sophocles, I am nor our of my mind;if I am out of my mind,I am not Sophocles."He thenproceeded to readto the court passages from the Oedipusat Colonus,which he had lately written but not yer staged. The dismissed the case. iudges
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find it comfonlngrhat,beginning with our very I first 9.I, ry. find ourselves in Juch compl ,t'rf unanimity." I 6r, .16 SPEAIGHT, Robert William (1904-I97G), English actorandAuthor.He playedmostof the maior Shakespearean rolesat the OldVic, London, in the 1930s. He alsowrote a numberof biographies. \\ I Speaight oncesuffered a mosrembarrassing I momentwhileplaying thetitle rolein a produc- II tion of Hamletat the old vic. A ratheiviolent l n i \I \ lungein the fight scene caused him to rip his J tightsand inadverrendy expose himselfto the audience. KnowingSpeaight to beanextremely i\ sensitive man,the restof the company ractfully iI "forgot" the incident. Later that season Speaightgave a magnificenrperformanceas i : King John. Standing besidehim in the gentle1 men's lavatory one evening,a fellow actor ! struggled to think of something ro sayto the i great man. "By the way, Bobbyr" he finally ventured, "m ay I sayhow muchI admired your John?" Ar, .e6
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that he would have to petition the queen himself, so he found an opportunity to presentto her the following rhyme: "l was promised on a time/ To have reason for my rhyme;/ From that time unto this season,/ I received nor rhyme nor reason." Elizabeth scolded Lord Burghley and ordered immediate payment. first showedportions of The 2 When Spenser FaerieQueenetothe Earl of Southampton,that great connoisseurof literature was enchanted by what he read. "Go bear Master Spensera tItD 4Lathe uullllltarr(.rsttl Ils commanded his gift of of twenry twenty pounds," POuItgS, $ft iendants. He read on, and againthe charms of him to further generosthe poetry encouraged i'Go bear Master Spenseranother twe-nty ity: pounds." Still he went on reading, ald then lried out a third time, "Go turn that fellow out of my house, for I shall be ruined if I read further." A$, ..6 Mickey [Frank Morrison] SPILLANE, storiesfeatur' (1918- ), US writer of detectiue ing the characterMike Hammer. I Authors become impatient with eagerstudents of their work who find symbolismwhere none was intended.When the subiectcameup at a meeting of the Mystery lilTritersof America, Spillane dismissedany profound conclusions that might have been drawn from the drinking habits of his most famous character. "Mike Hammer drinks beer, not cognac, becauseI can't spell cognacr" he declared. Ar, 48 SPOONER, William Archibald (1844-1930), British scholar, Warden of New College, Oxford (1903-24). He gauehis nnme to the uerbal trick, accidental or otherutise, known as a spoonerism- the transposition of the initial litters of words, especiallyto giue a comic effect; for instance,"a half-walmed fish" for "a halfformed wish." 1 Announcing the next hymn in a senricein New College chapel, Warden Spooner said, "Kinquering congstheir titles take." to be one of the best-attested {This seems spoonerisms, but there are of course scoresof likely but probably apocryphal examples: calling Victoria "our queer old dean" in a seruice for her Jubilee; scolding an undergraduatefor "hissing

you everget so tired that you forget to sayyour prayers - 'iNo,"at night?" with a smile."'When replied Spellman I'm so tired I can't keep my eyesopen, I simply 'D.earGo-d,-y kryowI've beenworking ll o-u say: your uneyard all d^y.If you don't mind, could we skip the details till morning?"' As' qt SPENCER, Herbert (L 820-1903),British phi' losopher and economist. He was a warm su?poie, of Darutinism and coinedthe phrasg"th.e -suntiual of the fittest" in his Prrnciplesof Biology (1854, L867). He applied Darutinism to social and economiclife in his numerouspublications. I Spencerwas playing billiards with a subaltern who was a highly proficient player. In a game of fifty up Spencergavea miss in balk and his opponent made a run of fifty and out in his first inning. The frustrated philosopher remarked, "A certain dexterity in gamesof skill arguesa well-balancedmind, but such dexterity as you have shown is evidence'I fear, of a misspentyouth." {This anecdoteis also ascribedto Robert Louis Stevenson.)

A'' '4 poet. English 552-99), Edmund(?1 SPENSER, met Spe,nse.r After studying at Cambridge., whom he formeda llterary Pbilip Sidney,-with by thisliterary theAreopagts.Encouraged club,his first maiorwork, be published atmosphere, and began er (1579), Calend The Shepheardes The FaerieQueene(1589' his epic-romAnce a postin Ireland(1580) He wasgranted 1,596). and spentmuch of the restof his life there.I.n Kilcolman castle,was de1598his residence, stroyed in a rebellion,and the poet returned wherehe died soonafterdesiituteto England, u,thrd. presented someof his poetry to I Spenser it graciously received who Elizabeth, Queen Lord Burghthe lord treasurer, atrainstructed Burghpounds. l.y, to paythe poet a hundred of the royalpurse-strings, l.y, a piudentkeeper a recomthat it wasfar too generous protested saidthe "Then givehim whatis reason," i.nt.. -qu..n, forgot conveniently however, Burghley, waitedP"and Spenser to makethe payment, hedecided Eventually tientlyfor somemonths.

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his mystery lectures" and telling him to leave Oxford by "the next town drain"l etc.) 2 Meeting a srranger in the New College quad?ngle, \Tarden Spooner could recall only that the man was a recent addition to the college Fellows. "Come to tea tomorrowr" he said hospitably, "I'm giving a little party for the new mathematicsFellow." "But, \ilfardenr" said the stranget,"I am the new mathematicsFellow." \ "Never mind. Come all the same." 3 \7hen Christian Socialismwas first becoming a significant movement, someone asked Spooner whether there were many Christian Socialists at New College.After pondering the question, Spooner said that he thought there were just two: Dr. Rashdall (a clerical Fellow of New College)and himself. "Butr" Spooner continued, "I'm not very much of a socialist and Dr. Rashdall isn't very much of a Christian.tt 4 "Mr. Spoonerwas one eveningfound wandering disconsolately about the streets of 'I've Greenwich. been here hoursr' he said. 'l had an important appointment to meet someone at "The Dull Man, Greenwichr" and I can't find it anywhere; and the odd thing is no one seems to haveheard of it.' Late at night he went 'You idiot!' back to Oxford. exclaimed his '*hy, it was the Green Man, Dulwich, wife; you had to go to."' 5 (Sprinklingsalt over wine spilled on a linen tablecloth is said to prevent a stain.) At dinner one d^y, Dr. Spooneraccidentally upset the salt-cellaron the clean white linen I tablecloth. tilTithouta moment's hesitation,he reached for his wine glass and poured a few drops of claret over the spilled salr. {Authenticity not guaranteed.}

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friend remarked jocularly, "I hear you are in hot water again." "I'm not the one in hot waterr" retorted Spurgeon."The other fellows are. I'm the man who makes the water boil." 2 "Oh, Mr. Spurgeotr,that was wonderful!" cried an admirer after one of Spurgeon's sermons. "Yes, madam- so the devil whispered into my ear as I came down the stepsof the pulpit." As' 4t SQUIRE, Sir John Collings(1884-1958), British poet, anthologist, and critic. A leaderamong the Georgian poets (1918-25), he edited the London Mercury fo, many years and wrote popular parodies and esslys. I Squire wrote an article for the London New Statesman about Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.Vhen the proofs were sent to him, he observedthat the name "Hermia" appeared as "Hernia." He let it stand, adding an asteriskand an author's note: "l cannot bring myself to interfere with my printer's first fine careless rupture." Ar, q8 STAEL, Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de (1,756-1817), French writer. The daughter of tbe French financier and statesman Jacques Necker, Madame de Stael wAs deeply inuolued in French political life from the Reuolution to the ouerthrow of Napoleon. Among her many louers she numbered Talleyrand. Once a great admirer of Napoleon, she became implacably opposed to him. He exiled her and suppressed her books. I In 1,797Napoleon still seemedto Mme de Stael the epitome of the hero who would bring peaceand sanity back to France.Shepur- t sued and flattered him, but he eluded her at- \ tentions wheneverpossible.On one occasion shecalledat his house,demandingto be admitted at once to Napoleon'spresence. The butler explained that that was impossible since the generalwas in his bathtub. "No matter!" Mme de Staelcried. "Genius has no sex!"
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945 conferenceat Yalta in the 2 During the 1. SovietUnion, Winston Churchill and the British delegationwere housed in the Alubka p?lace. On the grounds was a marble statue of a dozing lion, its head resting on its front paws, to which Churchill took a greatliking. As he explainedto Stalin,"lt's so like me." He added that he understood there was a Russiantradition of presentingthe best thingsin the country to important visitors. "Yes, indeed," responded Stalin. "The best thing we have in Russia now is socialism." The lion stayed where it was. As, 48 STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904), British explorer and iournalist. He was sent by the New York Herald to look for the explorer Dauid Liuingstone,wbo was missing on A iourney in central Africa. After meetingat Uiiii, they explored Lake T anganyika together. | (Stanley,encouragedby rumors of a white man on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, '1.87I.) reachedUjiii on November L0, "As I advanced slowly towards him, I noticed he was pale, looked wearied, had ^ Sray beard,wore a bluish capwith a faded gold band waistcoat and a round it, had on a red-sleeved pair of graytweed trousers.I would haverun to of the him, only I was a coward in the presence have embraced him, only, he mob-would being an Englishmao,I did not know how he would receiveme. So I did what cowardiceand false pride suggestedwas the best thing walked deliberatelyup to him, took off my hat 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?''Yesr' and said, saidhe with a kind smile,lifting his cap slightly. I replacemy hat on my head,and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then say aloud -'l thank God, Doctor, I havebeenper'I mitted to seeyou.' He answered, feel thankful that I am here to welcome you."' As' a8 STANTON, colonel. Charles E. (1859-1933), US

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next saw Mme de Stael,he greetedher with the ; words: "They tell me we are both of us in your i nouel, in the disguiseof women." could be a 3 Mme de Stael's officiousness trial even to her friends. Talleyrand remarked : that shewas such a good friend that shewould into the water for 1 throw all her acquaintances I the pleasureof fishing them out again. 4 Mme de Staeltold the story of how sheand the beautiful Mme R6camier were seated at dinner on either side of a young fop, who announced,"Here I am betweenwit and beauty." "and without "Quite sor" saidMme de Stael, either." possessing 5 Told by Napoleon that it was not fitting for a woman to take an interest in politics, Madame de Stael retorted, "ln a country where it is only natural women havebeendecapitated, ''Why?"' for other women to ask As, q8 STAFFORD, Jean (1'91'5-79), US writer; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1970 for her Collected Stories. 1 An old cowhand in Colorado, learningthat Jean Stafford was a writer, observed,"That's real nice work, Jean.It's somethingyou can do in the shade."
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to fight in World War I, senra conringenttoi visit the graveof Lafayetrein Paris.Genera{ Pershingasked Colonel Stanton to make d speech on behalfof the A.E.F.Stantonmadd the memorablysimple announcement: "L^f fayette,we are here!" I {The words havealsobeenattributedto I Pershing himself,who claimedneverro I havesaid"anythingso splendid.") Ar, '.E STANTON, ElizabethCady (1815-1 902), US reformer and campaignerfo, utomen's rights. I At a women'srightsconvention in Rochester, a marriedclergyman rebukedMrs. Stanton for speaking in public. "The apostlePaul ensilence upon womenr" he said."Why ioined don't you mind him?" "The apostle Paulalso enjoinedcelibacyupon the clergy," reroft Mrs. Stanton."\il7hydon't you mind him?" B. Anthony'ssimilarretort to {For Susan a sexistabolitionist , seeANrHoNy 1..) Ar, '.8 STARK, John (1728-1822), US generAl. He sented in theFrench and Indianwar and in the American Reu oluti on,securinga notable ui ctory at Bennington in 7777.He became a maiorgeneralin 1.783. I On August'l.5r1,777 menfaced two rStark's detachments of Burgoyne's troopsat Bennington, Vermont.Beforethe battleStarkmadean impassioned appeal to his men's pride and "Yonder arethe Hessians. courage. Theywere poundsand tenpen boughtfor seven ce a man. Are you worth more?Prove it. Tonight the American flagfloatsfrom yonderhill or Molly Starksleeps a widow!" Ar, {6 STEELE, Sir Richard (7672-1729),British dramatistand essay-writer. He is bestremembered with Joseph Addison for his collaboration on The Tatler (1709-11)and The Spectator (1711,-1,2). He also wrote a numberof sentimentalcomedies. I Steele was frequentlyin debr.A group - of friendsinvited to dine at his houseone d^y weretherefore astonished to see thenumberof

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seryants who attendedthem at dinner. After dinnera guestinquiredhow it wasthat Steele couldaffordsucha lavishestablishment. Sreele explained that the attendants werein fact bailiffs, who were in the houseon their official business. As he could not get rid of them,he had madethe bestof the situationby dressing them up in seryants' liveries,and stationing them aroundhis diningroom. His guesrs were so amused that theypooledtheir moneyro pay Steele's debtsand rid him of the bailiffs. Ar,4 STEFFENS, Lincoln (1,866-1936), US iournalist, author of the famous Autobiography (Ie31). | \7hen Steffens visited Russiain '1,919, he wasableto observe the Bolshevik revolutionat first hand.On his return he madethe famous statement:"I have seen the future, and it works." Bullitt, Steffens's {Accordingto tUililliam travelingcompanion,Steffens made up the remarkbeforehe evengot to Russii, and it existedin variousforms until he finallypolished it ro rhiswell-knownsentence.Perhaps the wisestcommentever madeon Steffens's famousjudgment was that of journalistMax Nomad:"Vlell, so doesthe atom bomb.") A" tg STEIN, Gertrude(1874-1946), US writer of prose. experimental After 1903sheliuedmainly in Paris with her companionAlice B. Tokhs. Her worksinclude ThreeLives(1905), Tender Buttons (1914),and The Autobiographyof Alice B. Toklas(1933). I In 1929Gertrude Steinwasinvitedto lecture at Oxford. Shedelivered a well-argued address in her cusromary sryle.Her lucidity and platformpresence confounded thosewho had mainlycometo jeer,althoughtherewassome laughterwhen she said in the courseof her lecture,"Everythi.ng is the same andeverything is differenr."At the end rwo hecklers iumped to their feetin differenr parrsof the lecturehail andfiredthe same question at her:"Miss Stein, if ry.rything is the same, how caneverything be differenr?" Miss Steinreplied,"Coniiderrlhe two of you, you iump up one after the other,

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admiration. Miss Toklas said thoughtfully, "Yes, Gertrude alwaysusedto say:if the house were on fire and I could only take one picture, it would be those two." {Mr. Rorem remarks that the wise Gertrude knew there is no such thing as first best.) As, at STEINBECK, John (1902-58), US nouelist. His most famous nouels are The Grapes of Wrath (1939)and Eastof Eden (1952),both of which were successfrllyfilmed. In 1962 he won the Nobel Prize for literature. 1 Steinbeckin his earlierdaysgenuinelydisliked personalpublicity. After yearsof penury and unrewardedlabor, he finally achievedsuccess with Tortilla FIat and so could not entirely interviewers.He was enragedwhen the escape journalist Ella Winter, in a profile of him, did not abideby his requestthat he be judgedby his work, not his personality."'What did I saythat 'Winter. "You was so personal?"asked Miss mentioned that I had blue eyes,"he replied. novel 2 Five thousand copies of Steinbeck's TheWayward Bus were destroyedby fire when the truck carrying them from the bind.ry was involved in a collision. The causeof the accident was a wayward bus, traveling on the wrong side of the road. 3 In 1965 Steinbeck passed through San Franciscoon an automobile journey with his poodle, Charlie. He sat at a sidewalk caf6 with and readvertisingexecutiveHoward Gossage 'Woods Charlie I marked, "Yesterday in Muir lifted his leg on a tree that was fifty feet across, t a hundred feet high, and a thousand yearsold. I '$ilhat's left in life for that dog after that sureflecteda moment preme moment?" Gossage and then said, with his slight stammer, "'W-w- l well, he could always t-t-teach."
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3 A friend asked Gertrude Stein what it was that writers most wanted. "Praise, praise, praise," she replied, laughing. 4 Gertrude Steinhad a good opinion of herself,which gaveriseto a number of pronouncements recorded by her contemporaries. She Lipchitzth^the knew told the sculptorJacques very little about English literature. "Besides and ffie, who do you think there Shakespeare is?" she said. 5 One of the few people who refused to be ; overawed by Miss Stein's astounding flow of ' rhetoric was Mortimer Adler, the philosopher, educator, and author of How to Read a Book. , He and Gertrude got into a violent argument , one evening.Alice B. Toklas, trembling on the i outskirts oT the battlefield, was heard to rei mark, "Dear me! Gertrude is sayingsome things 1 tonight that she won't understand herself for six months." 6 When Gertrude Steinwas dying of cancer, she turned to Alice B. Toklas and murmured, "'$7hat is the answer?" Miss Toklas made no reply.Miss Steinnodded and went oo, "ln that case,what is the question?" 7 The American composer and writer Ned Rorem made his first visit to Alice B. Toklas's home after Gertrude Stein'sdeath. He noticed on the wall two remarkable Picassoswith which he was not familiar. He expressedhis '

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book entitle d John Steinbeck, by Frank \fil- [ liam Watt. Steinbeck, who often felt he hadJ beenmisinterpreted by manyof the commenI tators on his life and work, readit with greatl interest.Finished, he remarked,"This boold doesn'tseemto be about me, but it's prettd interesting aboutsomebody."
As' 4S STEINBERG, William (L899-1,978),(JS conductor, born in Germany; music director of the Boston and Pittsburgh symphony orchestrAs, among others. I With time rWilliam Steinberg became totally bald. Relating an episode in his musical career,he once told his audience,"And there I was tearing my hair." Then he paused,gripped his bare skull, and added, "What am I saying?" A.' qt STEIN MET[ CharlesProteus(t 855- 1923), US electrical engineer, born in Germany. He made important contributions to the theory of electricity, especially on alternating-cttrrenf systems, and also inuented some 200 deuices. I When "the Electrical Wizard" was working at General Electric, he was annoyed to find in his office a sign reading "NO SMOKING." Steinmetz left a note reading "NO SMOKSTEINMETZ." After that it was ING-NO decided that the rule should not be applied to him. 2 After retiring, Steinmetz was recalled by General Electric to try to locate a breakdown in a complex systemof machines.The causeof the breakdown baffled all GE's experts. Steinmetz spentsometime walking around and testing the various parts of the machine complex. Finally, he took out of his pocket a piece of chalk and marked an X on a particular part of the one machine.The GE people disassembled machine, discovering to their amazementthat the defect lay preciselywhere Steinmetz'schalk mark was located. Some days later GE received a bill from Steinmetz for $10,000. They protested the amount and asked him to itemize it. He sent back an itemized bill: 1 Making one chalk mark o . . . . . ., $ Knowing where to place it . . . . . . $91999 Ar, e8

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STENGEL, Casey (1890-1.975),US baseball celebrity;astute and wixy managerof the champion New York Yankees fo, thirteen years (1949-52) and the New York Mets from 1952 until 1965. | "Stengel was coaching ar third one afternoon in a ding-dong conresr at the Polo Grounds when a Dodger batter named Cuccinello hammered a hit to the bull pen in right field. [Mel] Ott fielded the ball brilliandy, and threw to third base. 'Slide! Slidel' screamed Stengel,but Cuccinello came in standing up, and was taggedout. 'l told you to slide,' roared 'You'd Stengel. have been safe a milel \il7hy didn't you do what I told you?' 'Slide?'repeated Cuccinello with some dignity, 'and bust my " cigars?' 2 Asked about the art of managirg, Stengel replied, "Managing is getting paid for home runs someoneelsehits." 3 "Casey Stengel'seye for talent was often as keen as his wit. Early in his managerialcareer with the New York Mets, he was askedabout the future prospects for two of his twentyyear-old players. 'ln ten years, Ed Kranepool has a chance to be a starr' said Casey.'ln ten yearsthe other guy hasa chanceto be thirty."'

gameone d"y Stengel 4 At a baseball was exasperated from the crowd for a by demands playerhe had on the bench.He finally called for the playerin question."Am I going in?" "Nor" repliedStengel, asked theplayereagerly. "I don't want you. Go up in the stands with your fans.Theywant you."

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5 Explaininga point of strategyto young baseball starMickey Mantle, seventy-year-old Stengeldescribedan incident from his own daysasa player."You played?" askedMantle, astonished. "SureI playedr" saidStengel. "Did you think I was born at the ageof sevenry sitting in a dugout trying ro manage guyslike you?" 6 In his old lge, Stengel was askedhow he wasdoing.He sighed "Not bad.Most andsaidr people my age aredead. You couldlook it up." Ar, {6 (17L3-68), STERNE, Laurence Britishwriter and clergyman. His comic nouel Tristram

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candidate for the presidency(1952, 1955), he was defeated both times by Dwight D. Eisenbower. 1 Harry Truman finally persuadedStevenson to campaignfor the Democratic nomination in stayedovernight at the White ifi 1,952. Stevenson House and was put in the Lincoln Room. He t wandered around the roo m, gazingwith awe at the things in it, unable to bring himself to lie in the bed. So he spent the night on the sofa. He was unawarethat in Lincoln's time the bed was not there, but the sofa was.
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Shandy, of which the first two uolumes were published in 1759, won the obscure Yorkshire parson 4 succesde scandale. I "Soon after Tristram appeared, Sterne asked a Yorkshire lady of fortune and condi'I tion whether shehad readhis book. havenot, 'and to be plain Mr. Sterner'was the answerl with you, I am informed it is not proper for 'My dear good ladyr' replied female perusal.' 'do not be gulled by such stories; the author, the book is like your young heir there' (pointing to a child of three yearsold, who was rolling 'he shows at on the carpet in his white tunic) times a good deal that is usuallyconcealed,but it is all in perfect innocence!"' As, q8 STEVENS, Thaddeus(1792-1858),US politician and lawyer, congressman from Pennsylua59-68). nia (1 849-53, 1,8 congressional I At the beginningof the 1 861, a woman admirer broke into Stevens's session, officeand beggedfor alock of his hair. Stevens removed his chestnut wig and invited her, "Prayrmadam, selectany curl that strikesyour fancy." 2 In a scandalover the awarding of army contracts in the early 1850s,it was widely rumored that Simon Cameroo, the secretaryof war, had been less than strictly honest. Thaddeus Stevens was on record as saying that Cameron would steal anything except a red-hot stove. Cameron appealedto Lincoln, who askedStevens to say that he had been misquoted. "Certainly I'll say I've been misquoted," said the "'What I actually said was unrepentant Stevens. that Cameron would stealanythitg, euenaredhot stove." 3 A visitor who called on Stevensduring his last illness remarked on the patient's appearthat troubles me ance."lt's not my appearance replied."It's my disappearright nowr" Stevens

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2 It was probably during his first campaign against Eisenhower that Stevensonwas apwoman supporter proached by an enthusiastic who said to him, "Governor, every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevensonreplied, "Madam, that is not enough. I need a majority." 52 presi3 At a Labor Day rally during the 1'9 dential campaign a photographer took a famous picture of Stevenson,showing him with a hole in the bomom of one shoe.When the photographer won a Pulitzer Prize for the picture, Stevenson sent him a telegramreading: "Congratulations. I'll bet this is the first time anyone ever won a Pulitzer Prize for a hole in
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4 Alistair Cooke, talking to Stevenson shortly after his defeat in the 1952 election, was heartened to find him able to view the situation with objective humor. "After all," he said, "who did I think I was, running against George Washington?" Four yearslater Eisenhower again defeated Stevenson in the presidential election, and a cable reading simply: Cooke sent Stevenson "How now?" Back camethe reply: "'Who did I think I was, running against George \Tashington twice?" 5 Stevensonwas much praised in the European pressfor his condemnation of the Ameriflights over Europe. can U-2 reconnaissance Stevensonread the favorable comments and said w4rly, "The trouble is, I alwaysrun in the wrong continent." the Amerarrived late to address 6 Stevenson ican Society of Newspaper Editors. Apologizing, he said he had been delayedat the aiqport

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7 Duringhis 1956electioncampaign Stevensonasked somechildren,"How manychildren in this audience would like to be a candidate for president of the United States?" A number of hands wentup.Stevenson continued: "How many candidates for presidentof the United Stateswould like to be children again?"He raisedhis own hand. 8 The New York Times.reported that when was the US delegate Stevenson to the United Nations,the question wasput to him: "Here's Soviet Russia pushing for votes for her satellites,even one as improbableas Outer Mongolia;how canthat be counterbalanced?" \U7e "It's easy. replied, Stevenson giveTexas her independence and change her nameto Outer Arkansas." 9 As President-elect tapped John F. Kennedy four of Adlai Stevenson's law partners for top government posts.Assessing the situation,Ste"I onlyregret venson wryly quipped: that I have but one law firm to losefor my country." Ar' 48 STEVENSON, Robert louis (1850-94), Sconish writer, celebrated for nouelssuch as (1855), Treasure Islan d (1883), Kidnapped and Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde (1886), and thelyrical (1885). A Child'sGardenof Verses He died in \ Samoa. \ 1 A young friend of Stevenson's had .o--) plainedto him about beingborn on ChristmasI Day.She presents received only onceayearandI felt cheated. \fhen Stevenson drew up his will I as deathapproached, he remembered the girll I and bequeathed his own birthdry to her. He | [ subsequently addedthe following clause: "lf, I however, shefailsto usethis bequest propetly, I all rights shall passto the Presidentof the I UnitedStates." Ar, .8 STILLMAN, James A. (1850-1918),US banker and friend of William Rockefeller. He was president the National City Bank (1891-1909). "f

I After visiting the famous L9I3 Armory ll Show,the firstexhibitionof thework of avant- ft garde Europeanpainters for the American ll public, Stillman remarked, "something is | | wrongwith the world. Thesemen know." ilJ Ar, {6 (1867-1950), STIMSON, HenryLewis USattorneyand statesman. His distinguished career includedterms as secretary of utar (1911-13 and 1940-45) and secretary of state(1929"-33). I Secretary of StateStimsononce #fl.a ro closedown the Americancounterintelligence and deciphermentsources(known as "the Black Chamber"). SaidStimson: "Gentlemen do not readeachother'smail." 4., .8 British STOKOWSKI, Leopold(1882-1977), conductor in 1.915. wbobecame aUS citizen He conductedmany of the leadingUS orcbestras, (1912-38). amongthemthe Philadelphia I During a performance of Beethoven's trumpet I*onora OvertureNo. 3, the offstage calltwice failedto soundon cue.The ovefture finished, from the rostrum Stokowskidashed in a fury to seekout the erranttrumpeter.He found the playerin the wingswrestlingwith a burly janitor."You can't blow that damnthing here, I tell you," the janitor was insisting. "There'sa concertgoingon." storyis told aboutothercon{The same ductorsand concerthallsin Europeand America.) 2 Stokowski was intensely irritated by'l members during of the audience who coughed At the end of a series a performance. of concertswith the Philadelphia orchestra, shortly beforehisdeparture on a six-month tour of the Far East,he turned to the audience and said, "Goodby. for a longtime.I hopewhenI come backyour coldswill all be better." Ar, '.8 STOPPARD, Tom (1,937- ), British pkywright, born in Czechoslouakia. He madehis namewith theplay Rosencrantz andGuildensternAre Dead(1957);his later works include Night and Day (1975)and The Real Thing (L984).

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he would not be able to produce earsof corn with odd numbers of rows come the following harvest.In the springStout went out to his corn field and carefully cut out a singlerow from no fewer than 100 young earsof corn. At harverttime he found that he had about a dozen eleven-rowed ears on which no trace of his operations could be detected. He sent the "proof" off to the farmer, who duly mailed back a check for $100. Stout returned the check, sayingthat he could not win money by betting on a ce*rinty. t ,.\Yut* qg 5 c r uJ gr3', US nouSTOWE, Harriet Beecher(18L1'-96), elist. Her antislauerynouelUncle Tom's Cabin (1852) did much to enlist sympatby fo, the causeof abolition. 1 [JncleTom's Cabin quickly achievedfame. A woman came up to Mrs. Stowe and askedif she could clasp the hand of the woman who had written the greatwork. "l did not write it," said Mrs. Stowe, "God wrote it. I merely did his dictation." {'William D. Howells saw it differently: "As for the author of UncleTom's Cabin, her syntax was such a snareto her that it neededthe combined skill of sometimes the proofreadersand the assistanteditor to extricate her. Of course nothing was ever written into her work, but in of diction, in correction of solechanges cisms, in transposition of phrases,the text was largelyrewritten in the margin of her proofs. The soul of her art was present,but the form was so often absent,that when it was clothed on anew,it would have been hard to say whose cut the garment was of in many places."The practical inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin camefrorn a readingof a pamphlet written by ^ runaway Maryland slave,Josiah Henson, describingthe degradation life.) of a slave's 2 The feelings engenderedby Uncle Tom's Cabin did much to pola rrze opinion between North and South,contributing to the outbreak 'War. '1,862, when Mrs. Stowe In of the Civil visited PresidentLincoln at the White House, he greetedher (asrecollectedby Harriet's son' who was present)with: "So this is the little lady who wrote the book that made the big'war."

I Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in England, the success becamea sensational United States,and even Tokyo and Buenos Aires. On its first production a friend, puzzled by its enigmatic character, asked, "Tom, what's it about?" RepliedStoppard,"lt's about to make me a rich man." A.* q8 US nouelist,creSTOUT, Rex (1885-1,975), Wolfe. Nero detectiue the of ator fictional Stout was surrounded by books from an il early age.His father had a personal lib rary of ti over a thousand volumes,and his mother, Lui I cetta, was constantly engrossed i! in one book or ii il another. Although she had nine children, her !l T reading was rarely interrupted - thanks to a il simple expedient. She kept a bowl of cold water and a washcloth beside her chair: any child who dared to disturb her would have his or her face thoroughly washed.
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2 As a young man Rex Stout decidedto ioin the navy. Examined by medical board, he was " to have his tonsils out told that he would have This was a blow; before he could be accepted. He two dollarswas all the money he possessed. however,to find a young doctor who managed, agreed to perform the operation at a bargain rate. No operating theater was available, of course,but a local barber offered surgeonand patient the use of one of his chairs during a slack period. The doctor duly removed the tonsils. Stout bled profusely, and the barber, alarmed at the sight of the gore and thinking that it might deter other clients, beggedStout to leave,Stout, feelingrather groggy,remained in the chair. "l'll giveyou two bits to go away," The mention of said the barberin desperation. cash roused Stout; he accepted the money, crawled out of the shop, and, after lying down for a time in a vacant lot, went back to the recruiting board, which forthwith accepted him. 3 An old midwestern farmer once ponderously announcedthat no ear of corn ever had anything but an even number of rows in it, normally twelve. Out of sheer contrariness, Stout maintained this was not the case, although, 8s a midwesterner himself, he knew that what the farmer said was true. It was took place,and winter when this conversation the farmer made a $100 wager with Stout that

527 STRACHEY, [GilesJLytton (1880-1932), British writer and a leading member of the Bloomsbury group. His Eminent Victorians (1918)exploded Victorianhagiography and inaugurated the modernstyleof biography. (Osbert Sitwelltellsthe followingstory:) "'$(/e might recallwhat he [Lytton strachey] saidto a clever,charming, rathernoisyyoung man who had once been taken ro stay wit[ him. I do not know whetherrhevisit could be considered a success, but whenthe guest next saw his former host, a whole lustrum had 'Mr. Strachey, passed. do you realize it's five years since we met?'the youngmanasked. He received thereply:'Rather a niceinterval, don't you think?"' I

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STRAUSS, Richard (1"864-1949), German composer and conductor. Strauss wrote a numberof symphonic poems:Till Eulenspiegels lustigeStreiche(1594-95),Also sprlch (1595-95), Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben (1898). His fifteen operas include Salome (1905), Elektra(L906-08), Der Rosenkavalier (1909-10), and Ariadneauf Naxos(1912). | \fhen Salome was produced,KaiserWilhelmII, no loverof modernmusic,remarked, "It will do Strauss a greatdealof harm." The royal remarkcameto Strauss's earslhe commented,"l wasableto build -y villa in Garmisch,thanksto the harm." A+ e8 STRAVINSKY, Igor (1S82-1,971), Rzss ianborn composerwho becamea US citizen in L945. He first achieued fame with bis baliet scores commissionedby impresario Sergei -The Firebird (1910), Petrushka Diaghileu (1911),and Le Sacredu printemps(1913). The dissonnnces and rhythms of theseworks exercized a powerful influenceon subsequent twenti eth-ce ntury musi c; Strauinsft y's own later works taere influenced by classical and baroque adaptedto modernidiom. styles,

2 When military conscription became com- I 'War pulsoryduringWorld I, Strach.yappliedi for exemptionas a conscientious objector. i n This meant that he had to appearbefore a i i \ tribunalthat would assess the genuineness of I his objections and rule accordingly. The mili- I tary representative on the board boomedout questions that he usuallyfound disconcerted the applicants. "l understand, Mr. Strachey, that you havea conscientious objectionto all "Oh, no, not at allr" replied I Although the more discriminating wars?"he began. mem"Only to thisone."Themilitaryman Strachey. bersof the audience at the historicParis pretried again: "Tell ffie, Mr. Strachey,what miereof Le Sacre du printempsrecogn rzed the would you do if you saw a Germansoldier work asa masterpiece, the fashionable and igattempting to rape your sister?" Strach.y t norant were outraged at its novelty.Sporadic lookedaroundat hissisters, interruptionsswelledto a full-scaletumult. who weresittingin , thepublicgallery of thecourtroom, Overthe noisecouldbe heardthe voiceof the andsaidin his piping voice,"l shouldtry and come be-. impresario Gabriel Astruc yelling at the .,'i hecklers, tween them.tt "First list enlTben boo." i,).4 cv 1 rc4gi \ ?,-r.):,rl'"f i
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{He got his exemption, but only after further examination by military doctors.)

3 The basisof Dora Carringtgrrlsdevotion to egoceqrnc'Strachey puzzled the homosexual, '{befl"Arthur Waley asked her all their friends. what it was about Stracheythat could possibly appealtohdr, she replied ecstatically,"Oh, it's his knees!" 4 Asked what he considered the greatest thing in life, Strachey inclined his reedlike body, complete with owl eyes and spectral beard, and, in his elegant,high-pitched voice, languidly piped: "'Why, passion,of course." Ao' e8

2 (Theyoungmusiccritic CarlVan Vechten attendedthe premiereof Le Sacredu printemps.) \ "I wassittingin a box in which I hadrented one seat.. . Threeladies satin front of me and a youngman occupiedthe placebehind me. The intenseexcitement under which he waslaboring, thanksto thepotentforceof the music,betrayed itselfpresently whenhe began to beat rhythmicallyon the rop of my head with his fists.My emotionwas so greatthat I did not feel the blows for somerime. They were perfectlysynchroni zedwith the beat of the music.ril7hen I did, I turned around.His '$7e apology wassincere. hadboth beencarried beyondourselves."

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performed in Paris and received ecstatic applause. Pierre MonteuX, the conductor on both occasions,commented, "There was iust asmuch noisethe last time, but the tonality was different." 10 A lady approached Stravinsky and told him that, of all his works, she liked Schebera' zade best. "But, madame, I did not coffipose, he protested. "Ohr" said his i ScheherAznde," ' [ admirer, "don't be modest." 17 Stravinsky was inveighing against some ll critics who had treated his work rather harshly. / A friend tried to reassurehim: "No one can 1i pleaseeveryone.Even God does not pleasetu- f i eryone." Stravinskyjumped up, shoutiog, "Et- ! fi pecially God!"

he settled wasfifty-seven' 3 When Stravinsky to later decided ayear and States United the in tf il apply for Americancitizenship. made an He lt official.At ti to seethe appropriate 1 t appointment his first interviewthe officialaskedthe famous "Stra-vin-skyr" he replied, hisname. composer distinctly."You could syllable each speaking \\ the official. it, you knowr" tuggested change
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Petroleum at the exclusive 4 DrinkingScotch remarked Club in Houston,Texas,Stravinsky happily,"My God, so much I like to drink I think my nameis Igor that sometimes Scotch StrarWhiskey." wrote a ballet for Billy Rose's 5 Stravinsky Liuely Arts.After Broadwayshow The Seuen senta wire to the openingone of the dancers but if you the compoiert"Balletgreatsuccess pas instead deur de play would aflowviolin to Stravinsky triumph." be a it would of trumpet with greatsuccess." cabledback:"Satisfied wasonceofferedfour thousand 6 Stravinsky the musicfor a Hollywood to compose dollars on the groundsthat the sum film. He refused, was too small.The producerarguedthat anthe same hadaccepted composer otherfamous fee for the scoreof a recentfilm. "He had "I havenot, so for talentr" repliedStravinsky. me the work is more difficult." The figurewas and the producerlater reraisedaccordingly, marked,"Now I've learnedthat the musical ',scalebegins and endswith dough." i {sibeliushad a similarview of his own See colleagues. JnnN Stnr,llus1.) with an once had an argument 7 Stravinsky pay a he insisted that who official airport weight. The official, quite chargefor excess to began with suchsituations, usedto dealing "I quite for the extracharge. the reason explain saidimthe logicof it," Stravinsky understand patiently. "'What I am obiecting to is the
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tells George Balanchine 12 Choreographer CircusPolka the followingstory:"stravinsky's - for for the circus precisely was composed the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey wanted Circusin 1942.The circusimpresarios me to Theyasked to do a balletfor elephants. and told me I could choose the dance arrange I tele\fho else but Stravinsky? the composer. phonedhim, not givingawaythe whole story. " ''W'hat he asked. kind of music?' 66 6Apolkar'I said. "'For whom?'he wantedto know. "'Elephants.' "'How old?' "'Young!' "'Okay, if theyareveryyoung,I'll do it.' \ "'What he did served its purposevery well, \\ than 425 wasdoneno less andour ballet times."
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8 In the 1950s the Venice Festival commissioned Stravinskyto write an original composition. \U7hen the piece was submitted, its - was found unt length - only fifteen minutes '* i & satisfactory. Stravinsky was unruffled. "'Well, :i i thenr" he said, "play it again."
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13 Stravinsky, greatly concerned with his health, would sometimesput himself on a diet During one such period he of raw vegetables. dined on raw tomatoes and potatoes at a restaurant with composer Nicholas Nabokov. Nabokov left some of his cutlet at the side of his plate, and Stravinsky asked if he might finish it. Swallowing the morsel with a generous helping of sour cream, he declared:"I want to astonish the raw potato in my stomach." 14 Stravinsky'spublisher, impatient to publish his latest composition, urged him to hurry its completion. "Hurry!" exclaimed the enraged composer. "I never hurry. I have no time to hurry."

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529 STUART, James EwellBrown(183364),US Confederate commander. He was mortally woundedat Yellow Tauern,Virgtnit. I In the summer of 1862Stuartwasvisitinga housethat was raided by Union cavalrymen, and in the confusion of hishastydeparture left behindhishatandplume.A weekor rwo later, Stuartand hismenattacked th. foi.;;;e;;: eral Popeand plunderedthe Federal camp.In the morningStuan displayed his boory- the blueuniform coatof General Popehimself. He lost no time in sending the followingproposition to Pope:"General:You havemy hat and plume.I haveyour bestcoat.I havethe honor to proposea cartelfor a fair exchange of the prisoners." Ar, ,.$ STUBBS, John (1543-9I), English pamphleteer. I In 1 579it seemed that Queen Elizabeth was likely to marry the Duke of Anjou, much to the consternation of her Protestant subjects. pamphlet Stubbs wrote an intemperate against the marriage entitled The Discouery of a Gaping Gulf to SwallowEngland.The queenwas furious; author, printer, and booksellerwere apprehended and condemnedto have their right handscut off. The printer waspardoned, but the historian\il7illiam Camden wasan eyeto the execution witness of sentence on Stubbs and the bookseller. He recordsthat assoonas his right hand had been struck off, Stubbs raised his hat with his left hand,wavedit, and shouted, "God save the Queen!" Al, -8 STUHLDREHER, Harry (190I-65), US football stAr. He wls one of Notre Dame's famous "Four Horsemen" in the 1920sand later became a successful coAch. I In a certainRoseBowl game, Notre Dame defeated Stanford. The great Stanford star ErnieNevers wasoutstanding in defeat, but the
turning point of the game came when he was stopped at the goal line on a fourth down. For years Californians insisted that he had crossed the goal line and should have been given a score. One night George Davis, I Los Angeles sportswriter, was arguing the point when a little fellow joined in. "I say he didn't score," he

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said. "Where were you sitting?" Davis .tU- ? lenged him. "l wassittingon Nevers's neckr"j ( saidthe other man."f'm Harry Stuhldreher." Ar, 48 SUDERMANN, Hermann (1857-1928), Germanplaywrightand nouelist. I Sudermann and fellow-dramatist Richard Voss dislikedeachother. \il7hen a dramarisrs' guild was founded, their colleagues brought them together to effect a reconciliation,8s their names were of importanceto the guild. After much hesitation they werepersuaded to hands. shake "Herr Sudermann, Vossadded, I wishfor your nextplaythe same success asyou wishme."Sudermann turnedto theonlookers: "Did you hearthat?Therehe goesagain!" A.' -.6 SULLIVAN, Sir Arthur Seymour (1,8421900),British composer and conductor.His greatest successes werethe comic Sauoyoperas on which he collaborated with W'.S. Gilbert. I Returninghomeone night aftera convivial party,Sullivan found he could not identify his own house in the terracedrow of identical dwellingson his street.Fortunatelyhis acute tonal sensedid not desert him. He walked alongthe row, pausing to kick the metalshoe scrapers that stood by the sidesof the front entrances. One rang a familiar note. Sullivan kickedit again. "That's it: E-flatr"he muttered and walkedconfidently into the house. or a similar tale is told of orher {This musicians.) 4., ..6 (1858-19L8), SULLIVAN, JohnLawrence US heauyweight boxer. He becamechampion in L882, beating PaddyRyanat Mississippi City, and held the title for ten yenrs. I Sullivan was once accosted in a bar Uy r\ 1 puny little drunk, who challenged the burly I I championto a fight. "Listen, your" growled I t "If you hit me just once- and I find I I Sullivan. , out aboutit . . ." I 4., {6 SUMMERALL, Charles Pelot (1867-1955), USgenerAl. He served in Franceduringworld War I, taking commandof the first diuision in

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Iuly 1918. Appointed chief of staff of the US army in 1925, he retired in 1930 and became presidentof The Citadel (1931-53). I Summerall's division had suffered heavy casualtiesat the Argonne in \7orld War I. Asked how much longer he could continue,he replied, "As long as there are enough men for my division to be organizedin depth." "How many men will that take?" "Two," replied Summerall."One behind the
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As, ai (1811,-74), US statesman. SUMNER, Charles greatlyaduanced and persistence His courage tbe abolitionistcnuse. I A possibly apocryphalstory tells how taken in hisyounger days wassuddenly Sumner ill, so ill that he couldnot be condangerously veyedhome.He waslaid upon a couchin his officein greatpain. The friend who waswith his imminent death,askedif him, expecting that hewouldwishto do by therewasanything "l amprepared to way of spiritualpreparation. "l havereadCalvin's Sumner, die," whispered Institutesthroughin the original." Ar, e8 (191,8-74), US author SUSANN, Jacqueline of highly popular nouels,of which Valley of perhaps the DollsandThe LoveMachineu)ere at the She also excelled the most successful. put-down wisecrack, As her husband,In,ing Mansfield,recallsin his book about her. Mr. Mansfieldwas the producerof the successful teleuisionshows Talent Scoutsand This Is ShowBusiness.

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Suvorovlived as an ordi1 On his campaigns nary soldier. Asked if he ever took off his clothes at night, he replied, "No; when I get lazy and want to have a comfortable sleep I generallytake off one spur." Ar, q8 SVYATOPOLK (11th century AD), grand prince of Kieu and son of Saint Vladimir, who ruled for four years(1015-19) until his brother Yaroslau took control. I The city-state of Novgorod liked to consider itself a free republic. Although it was under the nominal chargeof an electedprince, control was really exercisedby the merchantaristocrats of the area. Thus, the suggestion forcibly put forward by Grand Prince Svyatopolk that the city accept his son as its The Novgorodvans prince was coolly received. the ideaand sentback their message: discussed "Send him here if he has a sparehead."

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2 A certain young lady, eager to appear on Talent Scouts, sent Mansfield a provocative photograph of herself. "l'll do anything to get on your showr" she wrote, "and when I say anything, I mean anything." Unfortunately, it was Jackie who opened the letter. "I am Mrs. Mansfield," she replied, "and I do everything

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I Swansonmade a particularly long and rambling speechat a banquet one evening.An old lady came up to him afterward to shake his asked hand. "How did you like the speech?" Swanson."I liked it finer" she replied, "but it

531 several excellentop\ t..-s to me you missed Swanson looked puzzled. "Seviportunities." excellent opportunities for what?" he [eral \asked. "To quitr" shesnapped. A'' 48 SWEDENBORG, Emanuel (1588-1772), mystic,scientist, Swedish and philosopher. He pioneered in the fields of crystallography and magnetic theory.In 1787his followersin London established thesectcalledtheChurchof the New Jerusalem or simply the Swedenborgians. I Swedenborg wasa verypracticalman.In a little inn in Londonone d^y,he waseating his dinnerveryrapidlywhen he thoughthe sawin the cornerof the room a visionof Jesus Christ. The visionutteredtwo words:"Eat slower." Thissensible advice wasthe beginning of all his visionary experiences.
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1 you have a gooseberrypie, sir?A plum pie? A currant pie?A cherry pie?A pigeon pie -" "Any pie but a magpie,madamr" interrupted J Swift. 3 On a iourney by foot one d^y Swift was caught in a heavy thunderstorm and took shelter under a large tree. Presently he was joined by rough-looking man and a pregnanr " woman. Falling into conversation with them, Swift learned that they were en roure ro the nearby town to be married. As the woman seemed likely to give birth at any moment, Swift's offer to marry them was happily accepted and Swift performed the marriageceremony. The pair were about to go on their way when the husband rememberedthat a certificate was necess ary to validate the marriage. Swift obliged by writing: "Under an oak, in stormy weather,/ I joined this rogue and whore togeth er;/ And none but he who rules the thunder/ Can put this rogue and whore asunder." 4 Dean Swift was reprimanded for preaching a charity sermon at such inordinate lengrh that by the end the audiencewas very little inclined to contribute to the causeconcerned. On the next occasiohthe dean determined to make it terse.He announcedhis text from Proverbs19: "'He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.' You have heard the terms of the loanr" Swift continued, "and if you like the security,put down your money." Then he sat down: The resulting donations were generous. 5 Lady Carteret, wife of the English viceroy in lreland, was on friendly terms with Swift. \ t One d"y when shehappenedto remark on how I good the air was in Ireland, Swift fell on his I knees and besought her, "For God's sake, I madam, don't say that in England, for if you l do, they will surely tax it."

-I7 45), Anglo-Irish SWIFT, Jonathan(1667 sAtirist, andiournalist,authorof the clergymnn, satiricalmasterpiece Gulliver'sTnvels (1725). He ioinedthehousehold of SirWilliamTemple, and after his ordination the diplomat,in 1.589 (1594) to serue A,s continued secretary there until Temple's death (1699). He then receiueda in lreland, but frequently churchappointrnent uisited London. He becamedean of St. Patrick's,Dublin, in 17L3. | \Ufhen Swift first startedto visit a fashionableLondoncoffeehouse, the regular clientele, comprising someof the foremostliterarymen in England, were so amazed by the eccentric behaviorof the unknown parson that they he must be mad.Dr. John Arbuthconcluded physician, not, the queen's waswritinga letter some andneeded sand, asthecustom thenwas, parson the strange to blot it. Spying nearby and thinking to havesomefun with him, he said, "Pray,sir, haveyou any sandabout you?" "No, sirr" saidSwift, "but I havethe gravel, and if you will give the letter to me, I'll piss upon it." From this unlikely start, a warm grewup between friendship the doctorandthe divine. 2 On his travelsSwift stoppedat a house wherethe hostess, anxiousto please her eminent visitor,askedhim what he would like for dinner. "'Sfill you havean applepie, sir?Will

6 At the age of fifty Swift gazedatthe with- | to the poetJ eredcrown of a treeandremarked EdwardYoung,"lshallbelike that tree;I shalU die from the top." I {This prediction,sadly,was fulfilled by f Swift'smentaldecayin his last years.)
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SZ ENT- GYO R GYI, Albertvon Nagyrapolt (1893-L985), US biochemist, born in Hungary. In 1937 he won the Nobel Prize fo, medicine. 1 Szent-Gyorgyi oncesenta paperto the scia new sugar entificjournal Nature, describing As this sugarhad to be that he had isolated. like all other calledby nameendingin -ose, " example, (for glucose), but was of unsugars rryi suggested the known structure, Szent-Gyo name"ignose." The editorsof Naturerejected suchfrivolity,andthe authorof the paperwas "Godaskedto think again.He resubmitted
knows,tt A'' .'48 SZILA RD, Leo (1898- 19 64),Hungarian-born US physicist. After leauing Hungary he worked first in England, emigrating to the United States in 1937. With his fellow-Hungarian Edward Teller he persuaded Albert Einstein to write to President Rooseuelt,warning him of the possibility that Germany might make an atom bomb first. 1 On one occasion Szilard was discussiru with his colleagueEnrico Fermi the possibility of the existenceof other life in the cosmos. Fermi held forth on the vastnessof the universe,the likelihood that stars other than the sun would haveplanetary,systems, the aeonsof time that would enabletife to emergeon some of theseplanets,and the probability that intelligent beingsnot only would exist elsewhere in the universebut would be capableof traveling to our own earth. "lf all this has been happening," concluded Fermi, "how is it that they have not arrived?\ilflhereare they?" "They are already among us," replied Szilard, "but they call themselves Hungarians."

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (18371909),English poet, known best for his Poems and Ballads (1856). His heauy drinking and defianceof conuentionalsexual morality made him a scandalousfigrrrc in V ictorian literary circles. | (Swinburne had a hard time at school; Sir of an Osbert Sitwell records the reminiscences former schoolmate.) eighry-six-year-old 'He told me how much he had enjoyedhis 'lf man long life. or a schoolboy for that a 'does not get matter-' he continued, on well, it's his own fault. I well remember,when I first went to Eton, the head-boycalled us together, and pointing to a little fellow with a mass of curly red hair, said, "If ever you seethat boy, kick him - and if you are too far off to kick him, throw a stone." . . . He was a fellow 'He namedSwinburne,'he added. usedto write poetry for a time, I believe,but I don't know what becameof him."' 4., e$ SZELL, George (1897-1,970),Hungarian conductor. He conducted the GermAn Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague (1929-37), the Metropolitan Opera in New York (194245), and spent the remainder of his professional Iife with the Cleueland Orchestra.
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was expelled from Taft's school, his enraged father was determined to have him readmitted. He stormed into Taft's office without knocking and roared, "Mr. Taft, you think you can run this school any damned way you please, don't you?" Taft looked at him calmly. "Your manner is crude and your languagevulgar," he replied, "but you have somehow got the point." 2 Taft was askedto comment on his specracular defeat rn the l9I2 presidential election, when he ran for reelection against lilToodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt."'Well, I have one consolationr" remarked Taft. "No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority." expresstrain would stop only if a number of people wanted to board it. Taft.wired the conductor: "Stop at Hicksville. Large paftywaiting 'W'hen to catch train." the train stopped, Taft boarded and reassuredthe confused conductor: "You can go ahead. I am the large party."

Ary qE His sculptor. TAFT, Lorado(1850-1936),US works includeA numberof portrait busts,the ColumbusMemorialFountainin Washington, D.C., and theFountainof Time in Chicago. sculpture\ I Taft was working on a classical which requiredthe effectof windblownrobes. onewindy Leaving theArt Instituteof Chicago foundhimself walkingon the d^y,the sculptor oppositeside of the street from two nuns, whoseswirlingrobesoffereda perfectmodel
of the effect he hoped to create.Taft then realized that a man was closely following the nuns. Somewhat concerned, he crossed the street and accosted the man - only to find himself face to face with a fellow sculptor. Aro ..6 TAFT, William Howard (7857-1930), 27th president of the United States (1909-13) and Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt (1921-30). His obesity occasionedmany anecdotes. I On one occasion Taftrstranded at a small country railroad station, was informed that the

3 At BeverlyBry, Massachusetts, clad in "1 vastbathingsuit, Taft plungedinto the wavesf and was disportinghimselfin the water whenl one of his neighbors suggested to a friend thad theyalsoshouldgo for a swim."Betterwaitr"l the friend replied. "The president is usingtheJ
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Ar, 4t TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Charles Maurice de (1754-1838),Frenchstatesman, twice foreign minister at critical periods in French historyft797-1807,18L4-15). He intrigued with the allies againstNapoleoit after L808, and his diplomacy u)cts crucialto'obtaining a reAsonable settlementfor Franceat the 1 Talleyrandhad a faithful but inquisitiv
seryant. One d^y, after entrusting a letter to him for delivery, he glancedour of the window and observed the man reading the leffer. The following day Talleyrand senr another letter, this time with a postscript: "You may send a verbal answer by the bearer; he is perfectly acquainted with the whole business, having taken the precaution of reading this prior to its delivery."

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3 During the French Revolution Talleyrand spent some time in exile in America. On his "l return to Francehe said of the United States, found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce." 4 Pierre Roederer, charged with preparing the consular constitution, observedto Talleyrand, "A constitution should be short and -') "Yes, short and obscurer" Talleyrand interrupted, thus cutting off Roederer'sintention of adding "clear." 5 Talleyrand was sitting between Mme de Stael and the famous beauty Mme Rcamier, his attention very much engaged with the latter. Mme de Stael made a bid to get into the conversation. "Monsieur Talleyrand, if you and I and Madame Rcamier were shipwrecked together and you could save only one of us, which would you save?"Talleyrand replied with his deepestbow, "Madaffi, you know everything, so clearly you know how to swim.tt 6 Claude Rulhidres, author of a celebrated work on the Polish Revolution, Histoire de I'anarchie de Pologne (1807), complained in Talleyrand's hearing that people said that he was mischievous, "although I have done only one mischievousthing in my whole life." "And when will that end?" inquired Talleyrand. 7 Talleyrand had expressed his impatience with the behavior of the chamber of peers,to which a friend replied that at least one could find consciences there. "That I don't disputer" said Talleyrand. "Take Semonville, for instance;he has at least two." 8 Talleyrand, sealing letters in a hurry, put the letter for recipient A into the envelopefor recipient B and vice versa,and discoveredhis

9 During Napoleon's reign the military were at their most arrogant, referring contemptuously to civilians as pequins (weaklings). Talleyrand askeda certaingeneralfor an explanation of the derogatory term. "Nous appelons pequin tout ce qui n'est pas militaire lV e call weakling anybody who is not militaryl," he replied. " Ah, outi," saidTalleyrand, " commenous autres appelons militaires tous ceux qui ne sont pas ciuiles[Ah, yes,as we call military all those who are not civil]." 10 Talleyrand made no secretof his opposition to Napoleon's invasion of Spainand Portugal. This led to the notorious scene of January 28, 1809, when Napoleon abused Talleyrand in the grossestlanguagein front of his other ministers, ending by shouting, "Tenez, t)ous Atesde Ia merde dans un bas de soie" (You're shit in a silk stocking).Talleyrand said nothing under this attack, only remarking as he left the council chamber, "'What a pity such a greatman should be so ill-bred!" At the Congressof Vienna Alexander I of fl Russia inveighed againstthose who, like King Frederick Augustus of Saxotry,had "betrayed the causeof Europe" in not joining the alliance againstNapoleon. Talleyrand, mindful of the czar'sown former concili atory attitude toward the erstwhile French emperor, obsenred,"But that, sire, is merely r question of dates." 12 A rationalist colleaguecomplainedto Talleyrand about the difficulty of converting the French peasants. "'What can one do to impress these people?" he asked. "'Well," replied Talleyrand, "you might try getting crucified and rising again on the third d^y." (This anecdote is often ascribedto Voltaire.) 13 Talleyrand once reprimandeda visitor for swallowing a glassof expensivebrandy in a single gulp. "The first thing you should dor" explained Talleyrand, "is take your glass in the palms of your handsand warm it. Then shakeit gently, with a circular movement, so that the liquid's perfume is released.Then, raise the glass to the nose and breathe deeply." His

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I The leading tenor of an American opera Tamagno's famous role in company, rehearsing Otello, was puzzled by a request from the stage director. During a brief rest in the tenor part he was to walk upstage,pause,then return downstageand continue singing.The action seemed pointless and difficult to execute in the time allowed. "But it is the tradition of the roler" insisted the director. "Tamagno did it." The tenor submitted with reluctance. In Italy the following year, he visited Tamagno and asked him to explain this strange"tradition." The old man's face lit up. "It is very simpler" he said. "Note that in the final passage Otello must sing a high B-flat. So while the chorus was singing I went upstageto spit." Al, 48

I The head of the \U7PAdance proiect was Lincoln Kirstein. For his first production he convened all the dancers and choreographers of and describedhis plan to presenta cavalcade the great dancersof history. "For exampler"he said, "Gluck-Sandor, you could dance the part of Niiinsky. Felicia Sorel, you might be Taglioni. And Tamiris, you could play Isadora Duncan.tt "Yes," said Tamiris, "but then who will play me?" As, 48 TAYLOR, Elizabeth (1932- ), US film actress.As a cbild, she starrediz National Velvet (1944). Of her adult roles, the most acclaimed wAs inWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolft (1955) with Richard Burton, to whom sbe was twice married.

diamondring ar.*\ I MissTaylor'sfabulous the notice of PrincessMargaret, who re- I "That'sa bit vulgar."MissTaylorper- | marked, to try on the ring. "There, I the princess suaded it's not so vulgarnow, is it?" shesaid. I 48 Ar, TAYLOR, John (1703-72),British oculist. Nicknamed"the Cheualier,"Taylor was a familiar figrre at most of the courts of Europe, a greatreputa' to haueachieued whereheseems despite the charlacures, tion for his successful tanry of his writings. Taylorwasholding 1 At dinnerin Edinburgh, among boasting forth with much impudence, other things that he could read anybody's His hostess, by lookingat their eyes. thoughts by his beof Dumfries,angered the Countess inquired whether he havior, contemptuously knew what she was thinking. Taylor confithat he did. "Ther," saidthe dently asserted "it's verysafe,for I am sureyou will countess, not repeat it." A" tt6 (1884-1946),US actress, TAYLOR, Laurette in Tennessee bestknown for ber performance William.s's The Glass Menagerie. l I At a pafty after a poorly attendedperfor--t, Miss Taylor was engaged manceone evening, in amiable conversitionwith one of her fellow guests, After sometime, a completestranger.

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I In his later yearsTelford was something of a celebrity,aswell asbeingdelightful company. In London he stayedat the Ship Inn in Charing Cross, which was always crowded with his friends. A new landlord purchased the inn without knowing that Telford was about to move into a house of his own in Abingdon Street.\fhen he found out, he was utterly dismayed. "Not leauingl" he exclaimed. "l have just paid sevenhundred and fifty pounds for you." 4., 4S TEMPLE, Frederick (1,82I-L902), British clergyman, archbishop of Canterbury 0895-

he politely took his leaveand walked over to a group of people at the opposite side of the room. Miss Taylorns smile suddenly disappeared and she turned angrily to her hostess. "That man walked out on me tonight at the theater!" she cried. "Are you sure?"asked her hostess."Of course I'm sure. I sometimesforget a face, but I neuer forget a back!" A!' ''8 TAYLOR, Maxwell D[avenport] (1901-87), US army officer, military aduiser to President Kennedy. He was the first US general to fight in France in World War lI. I At one stage of the parachute drop into Normandy on D-Day in 1944, the ratio of officersto men was L0 to 49. Commented Taylor: "Never in the history of human combat have so few been led by so many." {This remark was, of course, a play on Winston Churchill's famous statement after the battle of Britain in L940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.") Ar' 48 TAYLOR, Paul (1930choreographer. ), US dancer and

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A.' 48 chief of the TECUMSEH (c. 1768-1,813), an Indians,wbo organized AmericanShawnee to resistwhite encroachIndian confederacy (laterPresident) William Henry ments.General (1811.). him at Tippecanoe Harrison defeated Tecumseh waskilled in thebanleof theThames on the British sidein the Riuer(1513), fiShting War of 18L2. of Indiana thengovernor 1 In 1810Harrisotr, in with Tecumseh Territory, was negotiating He oropenhostilities. orderto try to prevent a chairto bebroughtfor theIndianchief. dered The man who brought it said,"Your father, Harrison,offersyou a seat." General "The exclaimed. "My father!" Tecumseh

I Archbishop Temple had a reputation for intimidating his cletry, and ordinands pafticularly dreaded their pre-ordination inter'.'iew with him. To one young man he said,"I will lie down on that couch and pretend to be ill. You 'sick-visit' leavethe room, come in again,and me." The ordinand did as he was told. Coming up to the archiepiscopalcouch, he gazed intently at the recumbent figure and then said reprovingly, "Why, Freddie, you're on the drink again!" Ar, q8 TENG SHIH (6th century BC),Chinesephilosopher and administrator. I A wealthy man from Teng's state had River. The corpse was redrowned in the tU7ei covered by a man who refused to return it to the mourning family until he had received a large payment. The relatives of the drowned man sought Teng's advice. He told them, "'W'ait, no other family will pay for the body." Fonified by this counsel, they waited, and in

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4., ..6 TENNYSON, Alfred, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-92), (1850British poet;poet laureate 92). Tennyson's first important book of uerse in 1,830. appeared In 1832he traueled with his Cambridgtfriend Arthur Hallam on the Continent.Hallam'sdeath(1833)mouedTennyson In Memoriam, to begin his elegiacsequence until 1550.Someof which was not published appeared in thecollection of pohis finestuerse etry he publishedin 1.842,including "Morte Amonghis laterlong d'Arthuf' and "Ulysses." (1847),Maud (1855), poems are The Princess and the reworkingsof Arthurian legendcalled The Idyllsof the King (1859-85).

4 One of Tennyson's admirers, a little girl Thompson, calledElspeth usedto accompany the poet on hislongwalksaroundLondon.As he trampedthroughthe streets, the child trothim, the poet madea strikingfigure ting beside in his swirling Spanish cloak and great sombrero.Passersby would often turn to look at him. Tennyson grumbledto Elspeth, "Child, your mother shoulddress you lessconspicuously;peoplearestaring at us." 5 Tennysonwas offered a baronetcyfour times, asa markof honorfrom the nation,and He came eachtime declined. aroundto thinkingthathehadmade in declining a mistake and Accordingly, wished to accept. ^ friend,acting him and Gladstone, as intermediary between Tennyson's the primeminister, conveyed willIt wasfurthersuggested ingness. thatTennyson ratherthana baronmight be offered a peerage mused, "Ah! CouldI bean etcy,but Gladstone accessory to introducing that hat into the Houseof Lords?" 6 Oscar Browning,well known as a snob, on the Isleof Wight.He soughtout Tennyson marched up to him, shook him by the hand, "l am Brownittg."Tennyson, and announced, who knew only one Browning- the poet Robert- looked at him coolly, said, "No, you'renot," and turnedon his heel.
7 Tennyson was entertaining a Russian nobleman at his house on the Isle of Wight. One morning the Russian set off on a shooting expedition, returning later that d"y with the proud news that he had shot two peasants. Tennyson politely corrected his guest's pro'two pheasantsr"' he nunciation. "You mean "two peasants. said."Nor" replied the Russianr They were insolent, so I shot them." {Authenticity not guaranteed.} 8 As a young man Tennyson was afflicted with a painful attack of piles. Accepting advice, he visited a young but well-known proctologist and was so successfullytreated that for many yearshe had no further trouble. However, after he had become a famous poet and had been raised to the peerage,he suffered a further attack. Revisiting the proctologist, he expected to be recognizedasthe former patient who had becomethe greatpoet. The proctologist, however, gave no signs of recognition. It was only when the noble lord had bent over for

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actor Henry lrv2 The great Shakespearean ing was staying with the Tennysons. One evening after dinner when they were having poft, the butler filled lrving's glass,then set the decanter down by Tennyson. Tennyson was talking and continued absentmindedly to fill his own glass,failing to notice when Irving's was empty. The decanteremptied, he calledfor another bottle. Again the butler filled Inring's glassand left Tennyson the decanter,which he finished as before. Next morning Irving found Tennyson standing solicitously at his bedside, inquiring how he felt. "Ah, but pray, Mr. Irvirg, do you always drink two bottles of port after dinner?"

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i examination that the proctologist exclaimed, I "Ah, Tennyson!" t {This story is also told of others.} 1 9 On a holiday in 1883 Tennysonwas holdt ing forth to Sir William Harcourt on the pleasuresof tobacco, telling him that the first pipe i ' after breakfast was the best. "The earliestpipe of half-awakenedbards," obsenredHarcouit, parodying a well-known Tennysonian line. Tennyson was not amused. A'' 48 TERESA of Avila, Saint (1515-82),Spanish Carmelite nun. She founded a conuentat Auila (1552) and later, witb the aid of Saint John of the Cross, seueral other religious houses at which the reformed Carmelite rule was practiced. She wrote A number of books describing ber mystical experiences. ' 1 A young nun came to Saint Teresa with exaggeratedtales of her spiritual trials and the fearful sins into which she had lapsed. After listening to her recitation, Saint Teresa said briskly, "'We know, sister, that none of us is perfect. You must just be sure that your sins don't turn into bad habits." &s, e8 TERRY, Dame Ellen (1,847-L928),British actress.She wls particularly successful in Shakespeareanroles. 1 Ellen Terry was at the height of her career when the director of aproduction in which she was starringturned out to be a rather opinionated and fussyyoung man. He told her exactly how she should play a particular scene,down to the most minute detailsof action and delivery. The star listened patiently and did precisely as she was told. \fhen she had finally gone through the sceneto his satisfaction,she turned to him and said, "Now, if you don't mind, I'll just do that little extra somethingfor which I am paid my enormous fee." \ 2 At the turn of the century Ellen Terry was \ in her earlyfifties and, though still at the height complained:"Now 1 of her powers asan actress, grandmother, I a nobody am will ever write a i 'W'hen for me." Bernard Shaw heard this lpl"y he immediately wrote Captain BrassIremark, I bound's Conuersionfor her. Consequently,in

TETR AZZINI, Luisa (187I-1940), Italian soprano. Her coloraturt singing wls acclaimed in AmericA, Europe, and Russia. 1 T etrazzintwasconcernedneither about her sizenor about the amount she neededto eat. She shared her predilection for Neapolitan disheswith her friend Enrico Caruso. On one occasion after a late spaghettilunch with Caruso she had to sing Violetta in La Trauiata. \fhen her co-starJohnMcCormack attempted to raisethe dying Violetta in his arms,it felt, as he said later, as if he were fondling a pair of Michelin tires. He did not know that she had consumedso much spaghettithat she had had that he to remove her corsets.The amazement could not conceal started her giggling,and to the audience'sastonishment both performers in this tragic death scenewere soon convulsed with laughter. As, q8 (1811THACKERAY, William Makepeace 63), British writer. After trying his hand at the law and iournalism, Thackeray becamea nouelist. Among his noted uolumes are Yanity Fair (1847-48), Pendennis(1848), Henry Esmond (1552), andThe Newcomes(1553-55).He also wrote t)erse, including some entertaining ballads, and was a popular lecturer. I On a lecturing tour of the United States Thack eruy was invited to a feast of Massachusetts oystersby his publisherJamesT. Fields, who knew the author's great desire to taste Thackeray, overcome at the these delicacies. sight of the six huge oysters set before him, asked in a tremulous voice how he should begin on them. Fieldspromptly gavea demonstration and swallowed his first oyster. Plucking up courage,Thackeray did likewise. Fields askedhim how he felt. "As if I had swalloweda baby," replied Thack eray. 2 Thack eny blackballed a man named Hill, proposedfor membership in London's Garrick Club. This Mr. Hlll was a self-mademan with a strong cockney accent. "I blackballed him ./

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becausehe is a liar*]] T.hackerayexplained. "He callshino,self'"ilf"when he isn't. " 3 At his club one d"y Thack erz,ywas accosted by pompous Guards officer who ex" Thackeray, old boy, I hear claimed, "Ha, you're having your portrait painted." Disliking the man's patronizing tone, Thack eray briefly assented."Full length?" inquired the officer superciliously. "No, full-length portraits are for soldiers,so we can seetheir spurs," replied Thack eray. "\il7ith authors, the other end of the man is the principal thing." $r, qi THALBERG, Irving J. 0,899-1936),US producer who had an important hand in the successof some of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most

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Clark Gable. The book's title was Gone with theWind.Thalberg agreedto readthe synopsis, but kept putting it off. Lewin went on reminding him and asking him about it until at last Thalberg said that he had read it and he agreed with everythingLewin had saidabout it. "Burr" he continued, "I havejust made Mutiny on the Bounty and The Good Earth. And now you're askingme to burn Atlanta. No, absolutelynot! No more epicsfor me now. Just give me a little drawing-room drama. I'm just too tired." Ar, '.8

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I Thalberg usually had his working hours with conferences on double-or triple-booked the manyfilmscurrentlyin production.Imporpeoplemight haveto tant and self-important and when they wait weeksfor appointments, arrivedoften found theyhadto cool theirheels the for hours in Thalberg's anteroom.lU7hen about Marx brotherscameto talk to Thalberg to A Night at the Opera,they weredispleased be told they would haveto wait. Lightingup two cigarsapiece,they stationedthemselves around the door of his sanctumand busily puffed smoke through the crack. Eventually "Is there a fire?"he asked. Thalbergemerged. "No, there'sthe Marx brothersr"Groucho, Chico,and Harpo told him. on which the Man< {The next occasion brothers were told that Thalberg was busy,they took reprisals by rearranging the furniturein his outer officein sucha for way that it was virtually impossible him to get out of it.)
2 Another victim of the "million-dollar bench" in Thalberg's offices was George S. Kaufman. Concerning one such occasion, he remarked warily, "On a clear day you can see Thalberg." '1,936, 3 In shortly before Thalberg's early death from pneumonia, his literary scout Al Lewin brought him the synopsis of a book about to be published. He was grearly excited about its potential as a film and as a vehicle for

THALES (?640-?546 BC),Greekphilosopher born at Miletus, on the west coastof modern Turkey. Thales,none of whose writings has suntiued,foundedthe earliestschoolof Greek philosophy. He heldthat therewAsa single eternal unchanging substance underlying all physical phenomena;this he identified with the element wnter.
I According to Herodotus (writing a century afterThales' death),Thales usedhis knowledge of Babylonianastronomy to predict an eclipse of the sun. The eclipse occurred just as the Medes and the Lydians were on the point of advancing into battle. It so terrified their armies that they packed their tents and re1 turned home. Modern astronomical investiga- \ t tions have pinpointed the only eclipse in Thales' time as that occurring on May 28, 585 BC,a rareinstanceof establishinga precisedate \ for an early historical event.
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2 Aristotle(writingabouttwo centuries after I Thales'death)showsthe philosopher asentre- I preneur.Peopleoften tauntedThales,sayingI that all hiswisdomhadfailedto makehim rich. l Thalesresponded by buying up all the olivef presses in Miletusin ayearwhen hisknowledge I of meteorologyenabledhim to predict af bumpercrop of olives.By charging monopo-l listic pricesfor the useof his newly acquiredl presses, he became extremelywealthyin one[ season. Havingprovedhis point, Thalesthenl sold all the presses againand returnedto phi-l losophy. I {SeeHENny Devtp THonEAu 5 for a I similarapproach to capitalism.) 3 Plato (writing about a centuryand a half after Thales' death)tells a more typical story of philosophicalunworldliness.Thales was

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ouer the Persian inuaders at Salamis (480). Ten years later he was exiled from Athens and in disgust offered his senticesto the Persian king. I Themistocles alienatedthe alliesof Athens by extorting money from them. Anchoring his fleet off a small island,he sent a message saying that he had two powerful deities on his side who would compel them to pay up - Persuasion and Force. The islanderssent back a message saying that they had two equally porenr gods on their side- Poverty and Despair.

walking along a road with his head thrown back, studying the stars, when he stumbled into a well. In responseto his cries for help a seryantgirl cameand pulled him out, obsewing that while he was eagerto know about thingsin the sky, he failed to seewh atlay at his own feer. 4 When Thales entertained the grear Athenian lawgiver Solon at Miletus, Solon teased the philosopher about why he did nor marry and havechildren.Thalesmadeno reply.Shortly afterw ard a stranger came to his house and Thales took him aside for a few words before introducing him to Solon. The man informed Solon that he camefrom Athens. Solon eagerly asked for news. "No newsr" said the stranger, "apart from the funeral of a great man's son." "Whose son was this?" inquired Solon. "l cannot recollect the namer" replied the stranger, "but the father is a man of great honor, who is currently traveling abro ad." Solon,whose forebodingshad beengrowing throughout the conversation, burst out with, "'Sfas it the son of Solon?" "Yes, that was the namer" said the stranger. \trVhen Solon began to weep and expressextreme grief, Thales took him by the hand and saidgently, "These things that can strike down evena man asresoluteasSolonwith uncontrollable grief are the things that prevenr me from marrying and raisinga family. But take courage, not a word of the man's story is true." 5 Thales used to saythat there was no essential difference between being alive and being dead.Someoneaskedwhy, if that was the case, he choselife insteadof death."Becausethere is no difference," Thales replied" Ar, 48 THATCHER, Denis (1915- ), British businessman,husband of British premier Margaret Thatcher. I When the Thatchersmoved into L0 Downing Street, the British prime minister's official residencein London, a reporter asked Denis Thatcher, "Who wears the pants in this house?" He answered,"I do, and I also wash and iron them."

2 Themistocles wasoverheard to remark that his youngson ruled all Greece. Askedto explain, he said, "Athens holds sway over all Greece; I dominate Athens; my wife dominates me;our newbornson dominates her." Compare EuznnETH THE QueeN MoTHER4. Fs, 48 THEODORIC [Theodoric the Great] (c.454-526), kingof theOstrogoths andof ltaly (493-525).His courtat Rauennt wasa center of lateRomanculture. 1 Althoughan Arian,Theodorichada Cath- | olic ministerwhom he rrusted. This minister, I thinking to ingratiate himselfwith the king, I announced that he wasrenouncing his tenets il to embrace Arianism. Theodorichad him be- I manisnot faithfulto his L."{.9, saying,".lfthis I God, how can he be faithful to ffie, a mere i man?" As, q8 THIBAUD, Jacques (1880-1953) uio, French linist. He formed a uery successful trio witb Alfred Cortot and PabloCasals. I Thibaud's liking for gourmet food, vintage wines, and beautiful womenprecluded anyseriousviolin practice. His repertoire wasconsequentlylimited.This did nor affect his brilliant
success as a performer, however, and he was immensely popular. After a concert one evening, Thibaud was talking to Moriz Rosenthal in the greenroom when a young admirer came in and asked Thibaud to write a few words in his autograph book. "What shall I write?" askedThibaud. "\(/hy not list your repertoire?" suggested Rosenthal.

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in an amorous esca2 Thibaud once engaged pade, covering his tracks with a flurry of telegrams to his wife at home: "Concert in Berlin fantastic success. Sevenencores.Love, Jacques.""Rome recitalsold out. Immediately re-engaged. Je t'embrasse. Jacques.""'SV'arsaw concert unbelievabletriumph. Mille baisers. Jacques." Finally he returned home. During dinner-a that eveningthe seffant brought a telegramfor sen- t Madame Thibaud: "BrusselJappearance I you. reviews. I miss Rave sational. Jacques." $.D, q8 THIERS, Louis Adolphe (1797 -1877),French statesmanand historian; first president (L87073) of the Third Republic. 1 Someoneremarkedin Thiers'shearingthat mother had beena cook. the great statesman's Thiers, intending to imply that she had been worthy of a higher estatein life, rushed to her you that she defense:"She was- but I assure was a very bad cook." 4., ..6 rYelsh poet. His THOMAS, Dylan (1,914-53), talents as a reader of poetry and radio actor brought bim success,but he was perpetually short of money. He died prematurely of alcobolism soon after presentingin New York his play 'Wood. for uoices,Under Milk I On one occasionwhen Dylan Thomas had beendrinking and talking freely for some time, he suddenly stopped. "Somebody's boring mer" he said."l think it's me." 2 (Donald Hall, who later wrote about his friendshipwith Thomas, once had an exchange with the poet that became particularly poignant after Thomas's death.) "l was complaining about some Sunday 'death-wish.' like papercritic who usedphrases 'What I added, a Out of brutal innocence '$fho wants to die?' Dylan dumb idea anyway. 'Oh, I dor' he said. ''Why?'I looked up at me. demanded.Just for the changer'he said." 3 "There is a story of [Thomas's]friend in the funeral parlour, who looked down at the poet's painted face, loud suit, and carnation in his 'He would never buttonhole, only to declare, have been seendead in it."'

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After a successful careeroD stal stage,Julius resin HollyTannen came upon hard times ring iob, he wood. Unable to get an actinl finally at leastobtained an auditi iition for an drama. editor's role in a newspaperdra rd, worried He dressed carefully and, wore a toup )upee.After about his baldness, rok his head the audition the producershool t ti think you and said, "l'm sorry. I don't ysl visualized will do for the part. I've always tt lart. a bald-headedman for the part rm his head. Juliuspulled the toupeefrom "l think I can satisfyyou on tha that scorer" he beamed, rnnen'spolThe producer studied Tann "l'm I te again. ishedskull but shook his head rn't visualize sorry,Mr.Tannen, I simplycan't man." you as a bald-headed - Ben Hecht , A Child of the Century

THOMAS, lPhilip] Edward (1878-191,7), British poet and critic. His early works conprose;only after sistedlargelyof miscellaneous to did hebegin befriendingRobert Frostin 1912 were written write poetry.Many of his poems 'War I. He was while he was sentingin World killedin actionin 1917. \War \ ,f( I Thom maswas I Ear ny rl ' i n W o rrl< 1d I, asked ,T r ne was I ghr Ittl he fiel nB fc or. Bendingl ew what h rinS e l kne I :ou he )oe ricked up al I dc OV >theg ot rnd, tl e tp( )et p wn to ilc ha mb rbl, le< an ndfu ul( ta 2I1t and crur ed titt of dirt , h rep . ( s 'Literal gers. fin ng llv isr' he thi e Y, Y r for j As, ,4 THOMAS, Norman(1884-1958), US ist politician and reformer.
I Norman Thomas campaigned regularly and unsuccessfullyfor the presidenq"-from 1928to L 948. When Franklin D*Riiosevelt was president, Thomas visited""'him in the \fhite House. In the course"'6fthe interview Roosevelt said, "Norman, I'm a damned sight better politician than you." Thomas replied, "Ceryou're on that side of the tainly, Mr. President; deSk,and I'm on this.o' 2 (ln the 1960s Thomas's fears of thermonuclear war colored many of his speeches.)

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542 1 In 1878Thomsonmadehisfirstiourneyto and naturalhistorianin an Africa asgeologist Keith Johnston. led by Alexander expedition tng Zanzibarfor Barelysix weeks after depart the twentydied,leaving the interior,Johnston Thomsonleaderof the expedione-year-old tion. He carried on to the great lakes and brought the expeditionto an almost entirely On his return to Lonconclusion. successful and don he wrote the book To Africnn l^akes Back, and becamea celebrity.J. M. Barrie Thomsonwhat wasthe most dangerous asked part of his travels. "Crossing Piccadilly Circus,"saidThomson. As' -.6 THOMSON, Robert(1923- ) US baseball player,born in Scotland.
I No team in the history of American baseball hascome from asfar behind to win a league pennant as did the National League's New 5"1,.In mid-August they York Giants in "1,9 trailed the Brooklyn Dodgers by I3t games, moved weeksof the season but in the last seven up to tie for the top spot, forcing a best-ofthree play-off. After each team had won one game, the Giants, in the final game, with the score4 to L againstthem, went into the last half of the last inning, scored a run, picked up one out, and had two men on base.Dodgerspitcher Ralph Branca entered the fray to try to get the other two outs his team needed.Then Bobby Thomson cameto bat and hit a three-runhome run to win the game 5 to 4 and the league pennant for the Giants. Pandemonium broke out in New York's Polo Ground, and this bemoments in came one of the best-remembered American baseballhistory. Looking back on his career,Thomson said, "l played fourteen or fifteen years in the maiors. I got more than 11,700 hits and more than 100 home runs. But I'd be forgotten except for that one." (Curiously, Ralph Branca expressed a similar sentiment about that same moment: "l pitched nine or ten yearsin the I threw thousandsof pitches. big leagues. And no one has ever let me forget that one.") Ar'.<"I THOMSON, Roy Herbert, lst Baron Thomson of Fleet (1'894-L976), British newspaper

"'lf you cannot learn to live with Com'then you munists,'he told his audiences, might begin to think about dying with saidthat if we had nuthem.' . . . 'Kennedy clearwar we'd kill 300 million peoplein the in a typicalthrust. firsthour,'hewould declare pause andthis Thentherewould bea rhetorical of defense], clincher:'McNamara [secretary and likesto save, who is a good businessman it would be only 200million."' says 3 Thomas had many distinguishedsupporters, but lacked mass popular backing. of his on the lofty character Complimented campaigns,he replied, "l appreciatethe flowers; only I wish the funeral weren't so complete." 4 Lookingbackat his recordof failurein his Thomascomfor the presidetrcy, campaigns "While I'd ratherbe right thanpresimented, dent,at anytime I'm readyto be both." Seealso HENnv Crnv 5 and THoues Rnno2. As, ..6 (1,892-1975), Paget THOMSON, Sir George diffraction British physicistwho usedelectron to confirmthesugestionof Prince experiments particleshauea wAue deBrogliethat elementary natureas well as a particlenature.He was the of theelecsonof I. ]. Thomson,the discot)erer tron. Sir Georgewas chairman of the Maud in Committee,which aduisedthe gouernment 1940that a fissionbombcouldbe made.
I The Maud Committee was given its name as a result of a telegram that Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist, managed to send to his friends in England shortly after the German occupation of Denmark. The telegramended: 'oPleaseinform Cockcroft and Maud R"y, Kent," after having assuredhis friends that he was mistakenly thought was well. The message to be in code and skillfully decoded to mean "make uranium d"y and night." It was later found that Maud Ray had been Bohr's English governess. As, 48

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543 magnate, born in Canada.Theownerof a numberof Canadian and(JS newspapers, hebecame a British citizenin L953.In 1966he took ouer The Times. His worldwide conglomerate was estimated in the mid-1970sto be worth some 290 million pounds. I Driving to the officeone dry, Thomson's joint chairman son Kenneth, of the Thomson Organization, took out a copy of The Times and beganto leaf throughit. "'Wheredid you get that?" snapped Lord Thomson. "At the shoparoundthe cornerr"replied his son. "'Well,Kenr"saidthe multimillionaire, "you take it right back and let someone elsebuy it. You canhaveminewhen I've finished." A" t8 THOREAU, Henry David (1817-62),US philosopher.His writer and transcendentalist (1854), best-knou)n work,Walden wasthefruit of two and a half yearsof life in a solitary hut by Waldenpond. It is admiredfor its descriptions of naturalphenomena and itsexploration of man's ielationshipwith nature. I A friendasked Thoreau what hethoughtof theworld to come."One world at atimer"said Thoreau. 2 Thoreau'sA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riuers did not sell.Eventually his publisher, who needed the space, wrote to ask Thoreauhow he shoulddispose of the remaining copies. Thoreauaskedthat they be sentto him-706 copies out of the editionof 1,000. rU7hen they arrived and were safely stowed away,Thoreau noted in his journal, "I now havea libraryof nearlynine hundredvolumes, hundredof which I wrote myself over seven ." 3 (Thoreaumadethe following entry in his journalon September 8, 1859:) "I went to the storethe other d^y to buy a bolt for our front door, for asI told the srorekeeper, the Governor wascominghere.'Ayr,' 'and saidhe, the Legislature too.' 'Then I will take two bolts,' saidI. He saidthat therehad beena steady demandfor bolts and locks of late,for our protectors werecoming." 4 Thoreauwaslanguishing in jail afterhehad refusedto pay the Massachusetts poll rax in

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1843. Ralph Waldo Emerson came ro visit him and asked him why he was there. "'Waldo, why are you not here?" said Thoreau. 5 Thoreau, whose father had been a manufacturer of lead pencils, was confidenr that he could improve on the type of pencil in use ar that time. His early experiments were a great success and presentedhim with the opportunity to make his fortune. Thoreau, however, surprisedhis friends by announcing that he had no intention of making any further pencils. "\il7hy should I?" he said. "I would not do again what I have done once." Seealso THnI-Es 2. 6 Asked whether he had traveled much, Thoreau replied, "Yes - around Concord." 7 Toward the end of his life Thoreau was urged to make his peacewith God. "l did not know that we had ever quarreledr" he replied. Al, e8

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THORNDIKE, Dame Sybil (1882-1,976), British actress. In her long and distinguished cnreersheplayed many memorable Shakespearean roles and created the title role in Bernard Shaw's SaintJoan (1924). I Dame Sybil was the daughter of the canon of Rochester.At evensong one Sunday,shenoticed that her father seemeda little distracted as he gave the blessing. She later asked him what he had been thinkirlg about at the time. "My dear!" he exclaimed. "I was thinking how wonderful it would havebeenif I had beenon a trapezeswinging across the aisle." 2 Sybil Thorndike was married to Sir Lewis Casson,himself a distinguishedactor, and they frequently toured together, giving dramatic recitals.After his death shewas askedabout their long and h"ppy marriage. "Did you ever think of divorce?" was one of the questions. "Divorce?" she said. "Never. But murder often!"

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"but it hasthe disadhe explained, luxuriousr" top of aflightof stairs." at the being of vantage no problem "There's at all,my dear,"replied DameSybil."Let Edith haveNumber One./ canclimb stairs." As, ..t US athlete of THORPE, Jim (1SS8-1953), He wasanAll-AmeriAmerican Indian descent. a canfootballplayerat CarlisleUniuersity,later professional. and PenHe won the decathlon at the 1912Olympicsand wasa tathloneuents playerfor six professional major-league baseball He was strippedof his Olympic gold seasons. that hehadbeen medals whenit wasdiscouered playingminor-league baseball for pay in 1909 and 1910and thushad losthis amateur status. Ki lng V of Sweden presented tG Ir ze bust during the 1,912 rpe pew ror >nz Th( norl wit h a br
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Stories involving amnesia are not rare. One of the most endearingis told about the father of the poet Alfred Tennyson. Once, visiting a new parishioner,he was politely asked by the seryant admitting him to identify himself. He found he could not remember his own name, turned away, walked, lost in thought, through the village, and encountered a rustic who respectfully greeted him: 'ee, "Good dty to Dr. Tennyson." "By God, my man, you're right!" exclaimed Dr. Tennyson. - Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix

THRONBERRY, Marv (1933- ), US professional baseballplayer. 1 "During their worst earlyyearsno one symcondition of the New York bolizedthe hapless Mets better than first basemanMarv Thronberry. He was the good natured butt of many Mets of the better (and somewhatexaggerated) stories. Like the time managerCasey Stengel got a cake for his birthday and someonein the clubhouse askedwhy Manrelous Marv hadn't ''We got one on his birthday. were afraid he might drop it,' Stengelexplained." As, at (1894-1,961), US cartoonTHURBER, James ist, short-story writer, and humorist. He contributed to The New Yorke r for many years. Perhapshis finest book is the autobiographical My Life and Hard Times (1933). I The offices of The New Yorker were constantly being altered on Editor Harold Ross's orders and the sound of hammeringand drilling filled the air as partitions were moved around by squadsof workmen. Thurber once hung up a sign outside the elevator that read: ..ALTERATIONS GOING ON AS USUAL DURING BUSINESS.''

pic al told him, "You, sir, kh( rholn Olymp C S Iand rlm , Sto, ock le gr( gteatestad rhl let te in the world." e r:he h are tts "Tl hank dd Thorpesimply. fha nks, king,''sai

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f 3 When word got around that the Carlisle I maians had an outstandingtrack team, Harold Lafayette I Anson Bruce, coach of the powerful '$Tarner's "Pop" invited team, athletes College I Day.Reluctantly, meet Alumni he dual on to a I pay gvarantee. large The meet a was agreed to I I sold out. But when Bruce went to greet the a few I visitors, he was disconcertedto find only '$(/arner. getting train young men off the with I are your Indians?" Bruce demanded. t "\Utrhere '$farner. "l've got enoughr" answered \ I "How many?" \ "Five." I "But, Pop, I've got a team of forty-six; it's an program. This is a disaster.You leleven-event lhaven'ta chance." 'Warner. | "Wanna bet?" asked f fnorpe won the high iu-p, the broad iu-p, ithe pole vault, the shot put, and the low hur/ dles, and was second in the L00. Two others I ran first and second in the half-mile, the mile, / and the two-mile; another won the quarterf mile, and the fifth the high hurdles. Carlisle won 7I-3t. /

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Danny Kay-ein the title role, became a hit that he would -ouid, S; dld.ryn-dffid like to haveThurber as a permanentpart of his team of writers. He tried to lure Thurber to Hollywood with an offer of $500 ^ week.

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7 Thurber and a friend attended the premiere of aHollywood specacular. As they *.t. leaving the theater, Thurber inquired what his companion had thought of the movie. "Well, not to mince words, I thought it starkr" was the response."I can't say I liked it that wellr" murmured Thurber thoughtfully. 8 Having overdrawn his bank account, Thurber was summoned ro a meering with the bank manager. The humorist freely admitted

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9 Thurberattended a friend'sparty after hef hadlost hissight.4r a certain c_ouple departed,f he remarkedto his host, "They're going d breakup." t "That's not possible!" exclaimed his friendl "I've never seen suchfriendliness andsmiling.'] "Yesr"saidThurber,"you snwthem.I heard\
them.tt Six months later, the couple separated. \ I

/ 10 In the fall of 196l Thurber underwenr surgery for a bloodclot on the brain.He made, apaftialrecovery but thencontracted pneumo-i nia anddiedon the afternoon of November 2i According to legend, hislastwordswere:"Go4 . .: Goddamn.'r\bless \ I alsoHenoLD Ross 12. See Ar, 48 THURLOW, Edward, lst Baron (I73I1805), British statesman, lord chancellor (177 8-83, 1783-92).Tburlow'scommnnding presence and powersof patronage madehim an important political force. Charles James Fox saidof him: "No maneuer tals aswiseasThurlow looks." I As an undergraduate at Gonvilleand Caius College, Cambridge, Thurlow was principally distinguished for his idleness and unruliness. His tutor summoned him andbegan to rebuke him: "Sir,I never cometo thewindow but I see you idling in the court." Adopting the tutor's tone, Thurlow replied,"Sir, I nevercomeinto the court but I seeyou idlingat the window."
2 As lord chancellor, Thurlow held the disposal of a number of church benefices and so was constantly being approached by various eminent people who wished him to confer such wealthy benefices, or livings, on their proreges. One d"y a poor country curate came to-his office. Thurlow addressed him in his usual brusque manner: who was he? what did he want? in which lord's name did he come?and so on. The curate stammeredout his nameand the name of the parish for which he had come ro apply. "l have no interest, my lordr" he said,

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pistol, which he ran slowly over his sitter. "I find you are two and a half pistols tall," the painter concluded. "Now - go!" From that time oo, Tintoretto had no further trouble with Aretino. &s, q8 (c. 1488-1 576),Italian painter who .-TITIAN workedmainly inVenice. He painted numerous formal portraits, mythological scenes,and religious works. Many of his female subiectshaue hair of "Titian red," a deep rich auburn color. I The Duchessof Urbino, although ugly and advanced in years,persuadedher husband to commissionTitian to paint her in the nude. As Titian was reluctant, his friend, the satiristand a way around poet Pietro Aretino, suggested the prob.lem,T-h.y hil.4 | prostitute, agryl*tjh an exquisitely beautiful figure, to pose for the body, and Titian produced an tdeahzedportrait of the duchess for the head. She was was chrisdelighted, particularly as the picture 'When it was tened The Venus of Urbino. shown to the duke, he sighed and said, "lf I could have had that girl's body, even with my wife's head,I would havebeena happierman." Aretino, to whom this remark was addressed, laughedso much that he suffereda stroke and died. SeePlnrno AnsrlNo 1".
I 2 When very old, Titian finished one of his { laid down his brush, and said, "l masterpieces, think I am beginningto learn somethingabout painting."

"and I come to you in no lord's name, but in the name of the Lord of Hosts." "The Lord of Hosts!" said Thurlow. "The Lord of Hosts! You are the first person to apply to me in that lord's name,and I'll be damnedif you don't have the living." 3 The lord chancellor and a certain bishop had the right to take turns in presentinga partiqular living. Thurlow got into an argument with the bishop asto whose turn.it was to make the presentation.Eventuallythe bishop senthis secretaryalong to seeThurlow. The secretary said, transmitting his superior's compliments, that he believedthe next turn belongedto the bishop. Thurlow replied, "Give your lord my compliments and tell him that I will see him damned before he shallpresent." The secretary turned pale. "My lord, this is a very unpleasant to have to give to a bishop." Thurlow message considered.Then he said, "You are right. It is indeed. Tell my lord bishop that I will be damned before he shall present." 4 At the adjournment of the court for the long vacation, Lord Thurlow, failing to take the customary leave of the bar, was about to depart the room in silence."He might at least 'Damn your"' said a young barrister have said in a stage whisper. Thurlow heard, returned, and obliged. Aro ".8 TINTORETTO [Jacopo Robusti] (151894), Italian painter. His nicknallt, which means "little dyer," refers to his fatlter's profession of silk-dyeing. Most of his masterpieces were executed in Venice. 1 The satirist Aretino was a highly partisan supporter of the other great Venetian painter Titian. He lost no of the High Renaissance, opportunity to jeer at the dyer's young son. When Tintoretto beganto obtain commissions that Aretino consideredshould have been Titian's, the satirist doubled his venom, Tintoretto's poverty and pride making him an easy target. Tintoretto let it be known that he was willing to paint Aretino's portrait gratis, an offer Aretino could not resist.He went to his victim's studio, took a chair, and struck a pose. "Stand upr" ordered Tintoretto. "First I must measureyou." Aretino stood, and Tintoretto came toward him, drawing out a long horse-

&l, .cE Count (1828TOLSTOY, Leo [Nikolaevich], 1910), Russian writer. After an aimless existence as a young man about town in Moscow and an officer in the Crimean War, Tolstoy returned to his family estateof Yasnaya Polyana, where he beganthe social experiments that were to take up much of the rest of his life. His mnrriage to Sonya Bers (1552) Ied to the creatiue period in which he produced War and Peace (1S55-59) andAnna Karenina (1, 875 -77 ). F rom a doctrine comto 1880 he liued according pounded of pacifism and asceticism.
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TOOKE, John Horne (1736-181,2),British radical politician and philologist. Horne Tooke founded the Society for Constitutional Information (1771) to campaign for parliamentary reform. His support of the French Reuolution occasionedhis trial (1794) fo, high treason; he was acquitted. I r$flhen Tooke was at school, a masterasked him in a grammar lesson why a certain verb governed a particular case. "I don't knowr" answered Tooke. "That is impossibler" said the master. "l know you're not ignorant, but obstin ate." Tooke, however, pers-isted in saying that he didn't know, so the masterbeat him. The beating over, the master quoted the rule that coveredthe verb in question."Oh, I know thatr" said Tooke at once, "but you asked me the relson, not the ru\e."

instrument was broken. Toscanini thought / deeplyf.or amoment and then announced,"It's \ all right; you don't have an E natural tonight." I {There are many other tales of Tosca, nini's extraordinary musical memory.) | 4 Every Christmas,composer Giacomo Puccini would have a cake baked for each of his friends. One year, having quarreled with Toscanini just before Christmas, he tried ro cancelthe order for the conductor's cake. But it was too late - the cake had already been dispatched.The following day, Toscanini receiveda telegramfrom Puccini: "Cake sent by mistake." He replied by return: "Cake eatenby mistake."

q 2 Horne Tooke wasadvised to take a wife. i "'Wirhall my heattr" saidhe."'Whose wife shall ,l it be?" Brins{ {Alsotold of Tom, sonof Richard i ley Sheridan.)
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5 Puccinihaving diedshortlybeforefinishing his ope ra Turandot,the work was completed 'When for performanceby Franco Alfano. Toscanini, who had a profoundreverence for Puccini's music, usedto conductTurandof, he always laid down his baton at the point in the lastact at which Puccinibrokeoff. "Here died the maestro," he would announce to the audience, and two minutes' silence would then be kept beforeToscaninilaunchedinto Alfano's finale. 6 Exasperated by the shortcomings of an orToscanini chestra, suddenly burstout, "When I retire,I opena bordello.You know what that is?Or areyou allcastrati? lwill attractthe most beautifulwomenin the world for my bordello - it will be the La Scala of passion. But I will lock the door against eueryoneof you!"
7 Toscanini used to sing with the orchestra during rehearsals.Engrossedin the music, he sometimesforgot about this habit. At Salzburg once during a dress rehearsal,his voice could be heard above the instruments. Suddenly he stopped the orchestra and exclaimed, "Foi the love of God, who's singing here?" 8 The orchestra's librarian was vexed by Toscanini's habit of hurling valuable scoresar the orchestra if things went badly during a rehearsal. Obsewing him closely, he noticed that the conductor's first action when enraged was to take his baton in both hands and attempt to snap it. If the baton snapped,Toscanini usually calmed down and the rehearsal went on; if it did nor, he beganthrowing scores.

-1,9 TOSCANINI, Arturo (1857 57), Italian conductor.He conducted at La Scala,Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera, Neut York, and of the from 1937until his deathwasconductor NBC Symphony Orchestra.
I During a rehearsal Toscanini flew into a tantrum with a player and ended by ordering him from the stage.As the man reachedthe exit he turned around and shouted, "Nuts to you!" "It's too late to apologizer" yelled back Toscanini. {This retort is also, wrongly, attributed to SergeiKoussevitzky.) 2 A trumpet player had attracted Toscanini's wrath during a rehearsal."God tells me how the music should sound," shoutedthe exasperated conductor, "but you stand in the way!" 3 Just before a concert a clarinetist came up to Toscanini and said that he would be unable to play since the E-natural k.y on his

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4., 48 TRACY, Spencer (1900- 67), US fil* actor. His films includeBoy's Town (1938),Father of the Bride (1950),and The Old Man and the Sea (195 S).He frequently co-starredwitb Katharine Hepburn, notably in Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952),and GuessWho's Coming to Dinner (1967). I When askedwhat he looked for in a script, Tracy's immediate reply was, "Days off." 2 Tracy was asked by director Garson Kanin why he alwaysinsistedon first billing when he co-starred in films with Katharine Hepburn. "\ilfhy not?" askedTracy. "Well, after allr" reasoned Kanin, "she's the lady and you're the man. Ladies first?" Retorted Tracy: "This is a movie, not a lifeboat." 3 When a young actor asked SpencerTracy for help with his acting, Tracy gavesome of the 'Just learn your most valuableadvice to date: lines and don't bump into the furniture." A.'t6 TRAVERS, William R. (1819-87),USlawyer and wit. I A bore who had beendiscoursingtediously throughout dinner turned to William Travers and inquired, "Do you think oysters have brains?" "Y-y-yes," Travers replied in his celebrated 'J-i-iust enough b-b-brainsto k-k-keep stutter. their mouths s-s-shut."

for a supply of arranged The librariantherefore during flimsybatonsto be available relatively If things went badly, Toscanini rehearsals. might break as many as six batons and the librarian would have to send for spares. "Lumber, lumber," he would shout to his assistant.
9 Arrivin g at a town on July 3 during a South American tour with the NBC Symphony Orchestra,Toscanini told the disgruntledplayers at the theater that he wished them to assemble the following morning. The players,who had beentravelingfor some time, were looking forward to a couple of days' rest from rehearsals. They obeyedwith an ill grace.When they were assembled,Toscanini asked them to rise and Banner." led them through "The Star-Spangled "Today is the Fourth of Julyr" he announcedat them. the end, and dismissed 10 During a rehearsalof Debussy'sLa Mer, Toscanini found himself unableto describethe effect he hoped to achieve from a particular After a moment's thought, he took a passage, silk handkerchieffrom his pocket and tossedit high into the air. The orchestr\ mesmerized, watched the slow, graceful descent of the silken square.Toscanini smiled with satisfaction as it finally seffled on the floor. "There," he said, "play it like that." Ar, q8 TOSTI, Francesco Paolo (1,846-1916), Italian musician and composer who became singing master to the British Royal Family. His charming drawing-room songs,notably "Good-bye!," were uery popular. I The young sons of Tosti's friend Mrs. Seligmanused their own word, "gobinghir" to describe anything that was ordinary or mundane, and Tosti picked the word up from the little boys. Once at a dinner party at which the company promised to be rather boring, Tosti "There're obsenredin Italian to Mrs. Seligman, a large number of gobinghi here." "Oh, you naughty manr" said the hostess coyly, "you forget I know Italian and I understand every word you say." "Not euerywordr" said Tosti.

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6.' ..6 (1853-1917), TREE, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Britisb actorand theater manage6 known especially for his Shakespearean roles.He was Sir half-brother. Max Beerbohm's I Tree was directinga rehearsal of a play in which he felt that the actresses, with their rathersophisticated had not capappearance, spiritof theirroles. turedtheessential Stopping justa little morevirginthem,he said,"Ladies, ity, if you don't mind."
2 Encountering a man one d"y in the street staggeringunder the weight of a grandfather clock, Tree stopped him and inquired, "My good man, why not carry a watch?" {There are numerous versions of this story, more or lesscircumstantial,attributed to severalpeople.) 3 Tree showed Max Beerbohm a letter that he had receivedfrom an admirer who had seen him act the night before. Max read it and commented, "That's very nice." "V.ryr" said Tree happily. "l can stand any amount of flattery so long as it's fulsome enough." 4 One of the more btzarreproductions of the silent-film era was a version of Macbeth produced in L 91,6by D. W. Griffith, who was ambitious to raisethe cultural standing of the film industry. Castin the title role, Tree did not take easilyto the medium; it is said that on the first d^y of shooting he pointed to the cameraand said, "Take that black box away. I can't act in front of it." {Tree eventually becameaccustomedto the presenceof the camera.He categorically refused, however, to cut any of Shakespeare's text, despite the fact that none of it would be heard. To avoid wasting expensivefilm, the director was obliged to tell the cameramanto pull the crank out of the camerauntil it was necessaryto shoot some action.)

5 Duringthe rehearsal of a scene that wasnod working out too well, Tree directeda youngI actorto stepbacka little.Themandid so.After I a while Tree stoppedthe rehearsal again:" Al little furtherback,please." Againthe actordid ashe wasbiddenand the rehearsal carriedonl Tree stoppedit a third time: "Further bacf "But if I go anyfurthS still," he requested. back,I'll be right off the stage," prorested rhb actor."Yes,that'srightr" saidTree. t
6 The writer Hesketh Pearson was once waiting to speak to Tree at His Majesty's Theatre in London. Another man, a strangerto Pearson, was also presenton the samemission. When Tree finally arrived, he looked at the two men for a moment, then sat down between them. "Consider yourselves introduced," he said, "because I only remember one of your names,and rhat wouldn't be fair to the other." 7 Tree had little money sense, and his financial manager at the Haymarket Theatre was constantly warning him againstbeing overgenerous. As an example of unnecessary expenditure, he once cited Tree'shabit of taking him to lunch at the Carlton every d"y and paying the bill out of petty cash.Tree thanked him for his advice and promised immediate reform. At lunchtime that d^y, he dutifully took his manager to a nearby teashop and said ro the waitress, "Madam, will you please give this gentleman anice glassof milk and alargebun." Then, turning to his colleague, Tree saidamicably, "Pick me up at the Carlton when you have had enough- but do have enough." 8 Tree once had cause to criticize a young / actor for his overbearing conceit. "l assure your l sir," retorted the actor indignantly, "that I am I not sufferingfrom a swelled head." I "lt isn't the swelling that causessufferin gr" I remarked Tree. "lt's the subsequentshrinkageI that hurts."

Ar, ..6 TRENCH, Richard Chenevix (1807-85), Britisb diuineand biblicalscholar. He u)as dean (1.856-54) of Westminster and archbishop tf Dublin (1554-84). I In I875 a fall fracturedboth of Trench's knees,afterwhich he neverfully recovered his health,living in fear of paralysis. A lady sitting

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hisarchbishopric 2 In 1884Trenchresigned of ill heaith.Sometime later his on ground.s mvited him and Mrs. Trench back successor palace in Dublin. for ashortstayat thebishop's and at homein the house Feeling comfortable wherehe had livedfor so long,Trenchforgot , that hewasnot thehost.At a mealat whichthe ,food wasratherpoor he suddenly boomed out iacross you must thetableto hiswife,"My dear, this cook asone of yo,rt failures." ilcount Ar' '4 TRILLING, Lionel (1905-76), US educator and author. Professor of Englishat Columbia Uniuersity,he wrote many works of criticism, (1950) Liberal and includingThe Imagination 'World (1972). Mind in the Modern LionelTrillingandtheerudite I "The erudite Barzun[also a Columbiaproffessor] Jacques got into a punningmatchwhena student, disMalthus'sEss ay on Population, cited cussing themotto of theOrderof theGarter , Honi soit qui maly pense-'Shameon him who imputes ill to it.' Barzunremarked,'Honi soit que Trilling rejoined,'Honi soit Malthuspense.' qui mal thuspuns."' As, q8 TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82),British nouelist. He workedmostof his life for the Post weremainly writOffice,and his many nouels beforehe 5:30 A.M.and breakfast, ten between works fall into two left for work. His greatest nouels, which centeron the Barsetshire series: and theirfamiliesin an imaginary theclergymen which cathedralcity, and the political nouels, life. dealwith high-society Trollopeas one describes I t MichaelSadleir himself to think, but "scarcely giving time I androaringout aninstantly-formed \ spluttering \ opinion couched in the very strongestof Trollope f terms." At a meetingof surveyors,

2 A lady sitting next to Trollope at dinner observedthat he helped himself liberally from every dish that was offered to him. "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trolloper" she remarked, rather impertinently. "Non e at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy." 3 The character of Mrs. Proudie, the insufin the ferablewife of the bishop of Barchester, novels is one of Trollope's greatest Barsetshire In his Autobiography he owns to successes. taking great delight in his creation of her. One morning he was sitting writing in the drawing room of his London club, the Athenaeum, when he overheard two clergymen talking about his work. They were complainingthat in different books Trollope kept on introducing the samecharacters againand again."If I could not invent new characters,I would not write novelsat all," saidone. Then the other beganto complain about Mrs. Proudie. This was too much for Trollope, who approached them, confessing that he was the author of the novels they were criticizing. "As to Mrs. Proudie, I will go home and kill her before the week is overr" he promised. The two clergymen,much embarrassed,begged Trollope to overlook their comments, but Trollope kept his word. The novel he was working on was The Last Chronicle of Barset, and in it he describesthe suddenand shocking death of his old favorite, Mrs. Proudie. 4 (ln 1858 the Post Office dispatchedTrollope to the \WestIndies with the title of "misfor and make suggestions sioner" to investigate reorganizing the postal system in Britain's Caribbeanand Central American colonies.) "Trollope was determined to prove that a certain distancecould be coveredon muleback in two days. The local postal authorities declared that the journey would take three, and to support their claim purposely provided the troublesome visitor with an uncomfortable saddle. In consequencethe first day's ride reduced the missioner to the extremes of raw discomfort. The morrow (if he were to carry his point) must be another, equally fatiguing d"y. Only one remedy was possible,and that a

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drastic one. He ordered two bottles of brandy, poured them into a washbasin,and sat in it." Al, 48 TROLLOPE, Frances (1730-1853), British nouelist, trAueler,and mother of Anthony Trollope. Forced to support her family by writing, she published some well-receiued nouels, including The \7idow Barnaby (1838). I There was constant friction between Mrs. Trollope and the local vicar, a well-known 'Sf. evangelicalcalled J. Cunningham. Objecting to Mrs. Trollope's allowing her daughters to act charadesat parries, he asked whether she considered play-acting a'suitable amusement for young ladies. ::\tlhy nor?" said Mrs. Trollope. "Mrs. Cuqniirgham has eveningparties at which we,afL always glad to heat-yout daughterspl4y'{he piano." "Yesr" sait the vicar, "but they always keep their backs to the audience." 2 (The novelist Sabine Baring-Gould reimembers meeting Mrs. Trollope at Pau one i winter when shewas a child and Mrs. Trollope an old lady.) "The English residentswere not a little shy her, fearing lest she should take stock of of , i them and use them up in one of her novels;for she had the character of delineatingmembers of her acquaintance,and that nor to their advantage.Someoneasked her whether this was 'Of courser' answered Mrs. t not her practice. 'I Trollope, draw from life - but I alwayspulp my acquaintancesbefore seroingthem up. Youi ' would never recognize a pig in a sausage."' t Ar, '.S TROTSKY, Leon [Lev Davidovich Bronstein] (1,879-1940), Russian reuolutionary. Witb Lenin he organized the Nouember Reuolution. Elected commissAr for war, he created the Red Army. He fell from fauor after Lenin's death in 1,924,and was finolb expelledby Stalin (1.929). He was assassinatedin Mexico City. I 1 A Russian migr6 in Vienna during \7orld , \Var I, Trotsky spenr much of his time playing ; chessin the Cafe Central and was regarded by those who knew him as a harmless, almost pathetic figure. In March I9I7, the Austrian foreign minister was informed by an excited official that revolution had broken our in Russia.

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"Russia is not a landwhererevolutions break out," saidthe ministerskeptically, dismissing I the credulous young man. "Besides, who on I earthwould makea revolutionin Russia? Per- I hapsHerr Trotsky from the CafeCentral?" I I a.o48 TROY, Hugh (1,906-64),US artistandpracticalioker. I In 1935the Museum of ModernArt sponsored the first American exhibition of van Gogh's art. Troy suspected that many of the vast crowds of peoplewho throngedto the show were more attractedby the sensational detailsof van Gogh'slife than sincerely interin his art.He madea replicaof an earour ested of chippedbeefand had it mountedin a little blue velvetdisplaycase.Under it was a card reading:"This was the ear that Vincent van Goghcut off and sentto his mistress, a French prostitute, 24 December 1888."The earwas placed on a tablein thegallery andwasimmediatelya prime draw for the crowd. A+ e$ TRUDEAU, Edward Livingsron (1S48pioneerin thefiShtagainsttuberculosis. 191,5), | "Many patients cameto Dr. Trudeauwith insufficient funds.'Doctorr'saidone of them, 'before you - I have very little do anything money. . . . How muchwill it cost?' "'D.pends on how much you'vegot, and how sickyou are.'Heprepared to examine the
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Tillis, the young heavyweight... is a cowboy from Oklahoma who now fights our of Chicago. He still remembershis first day in the rilTindy City after his arrival from Tulsa. "'I got off the bus with rwo cardboard suitcasesunder my arms in downtown Chicago and sroppedin front of the Sears Towerr' Tillis said. 'I put the suitcases down, and I looked r'tpat the Tower and I said to myself, I'm going to conquer Chicago.' ''When " I looked down, the suitcases were gone.tt' '!,99I - Los AngelesTimes, July ZS,

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2 In December 1950 President Truman's daughter, Margaret, gavea public singing recital in Washington, which was unenthusiastically received by Paul Hume, the Washington her voice Posf'smusic critic. He characterized as having "little size and farcquality," said she sang flat much of the time, and complained that there were "few moments . . when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song." Truman penned the following letter: "l have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages.You' sound like a frustrated old man 'lrho never made a success, an eight-ulcerman on a four-ulcer iob, and all four ulcersworking. I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a and perhapsa new noseand plenty of beefsteak supporter below. Westbrook Pegler,a guttersnipe,is a gentlemancomparedto you. You can take that as more of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry." a {This letter was madepublic and caused considerablefuror, but most Americans seem generally to have approved Truman's fatherly readiness to leap to his daughter'sdefense.) 3 After Truman had referred to a certainpolias"a bunch of horsemanure," it tician's speech was suggestedto Bess Truman that she persuadeher husband to tone down his language. Mrs. Truman replied, "You don't know how many yearsit took me to tone it down to that!" of a proba{This is one of many varrants bly apocryphal story.) 4 It may have been Truman who started the \t \ \ joke about one-handed economists. "All my t t\ 'on the one hand . . . on the t \ economistsSxy, il other.' Give me a one-handedeconomist!"
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'You see, it's thisway,If you're patient's chest. not verysick,it will costyou quitea lot, soI can usethe moneyon thosewho areverysick.'He 'But if you'rein proceeded to the examination. -' way, why a bad "'How badam I, doctor?' finished theexam"'Quiet, please.'Trudeau ination.And then, his facefloodedwith tenbill. hispatienta ten-dollar he handed derness, 'lt will helpa bit in the daysahead."' Ar' qt TRUDEAU, PierreElliott (1919- ), CanaLiberalprime minister(1958dian statesman; Frenchseparatism, He opposed 79, L980-84). despitehis own FrenchCanadianbackground, agitation in Quebec and dealt with separatist (1970)by imposing a periodof martiallaw. I Trudeau faced some criticismwhen opposition memberslearned that anonymous pool at a newswimming donorswerefinancing in Otthe prime minister'sofficialresidence tawa."You maycomeoverat anytime to practice your diving," Trudeau told one of his "Even beforethe wateris in." opponents. Ar, {E 972), US statesTRUMAN, Harry S.(1884-1 (1945of theUnitedStates man; 33dpresident of uponthedeath aftertakingoffite Shortly 53). Franklin Rooseuelt,he ordered the atomic citiesto end the war bombingof two Japanese with Japan. In foreignpolicy he initiated the Truman Doctrine, sendingmilitary and ecowith interference tltreatened nomicaid to states from otherpowers.His MarsballPlan (1948) postwarrecouer!, andheproEurope's assisted moted the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). His Fair Deal improueprogram reformachieued for domestic and slum clenrance. benefits mentsin old-age the vice presidency I Trumanhad accepted On April 12,1945 reluctance. with extreme rhe to the \7hite House.Therehe wassummoned sitting was shown into EleanorRoosevelt's room and she told him gentlythat President stunned After a moment's wasdead. Roosevelt I her,"Is thereanything Trumanasked silence, can do for you?" Sheshook her head."Is there anythingwe cando for you?"shesaid."For you'rethe one in troublenow."

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553 7 In her book Souuenir Margaret Trumanrecalls the Christmasof 1955. The president found his wife at the fireplace disposing of lettershe hadwritten to her overthe years. "But tlrink of history," he protested. "l haue," repliedBess. of these lemers were {Actuallyhundreds saved;a selectionis available in Dear Bess:The Letters from Harry to Bess TramAn,1910-1959, editedby Robert H. Ferrell.) As' 48 TRUTH, Soiourner[Isabella Van \Tagener] (c. 1797-1883), US euangelist, abolitionist, construction femini st,andorator.D uringtheRe periodfollowingtheUS CiuilWar shehelped in the resettlement of emancipated slAues. I Sojourner Truth wasoneof the firstblacks to test the streetcar antidiscrimination law in Washington D.C.Havingfailedto gera trolley to stopfor herwhenshesignaled, sheshouted at thetop of hervoice, "I wantto ridelI wantto ride!I want to ride!" A largecrowd gathered, andthe streetcar wasunable to continue on its way.Sojourner Truth jumpedaboardandwas told by the angryconductorro go forward to wherethe horses wereor hewouldput herout. Truth satdown quietlyand informedthe conductorthat shewasa passenger andwould not be bullied:"As a citizenof the EmpireStateof New York, I know the law aswell asyou do." Sosaying, sherodethecarto theendof theline and left it with the words,"BlessGodl I have hada ride."
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3 Other artists loathed being hung nexr ro Turner at exhibitions, as the brilliance of his colors had a disastrouseffect on the pictures on either side. \fhen Cologne was hung between two paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the greatportraitist complainedso bitterly that Turner good-naturedlytoned down the golden sky in his painting to an overalldullness."'What haveyou done to your picture?" askeda friend in horror when he saw the change."'W'ell,poor Lawrence was so unhsppy," explained Turner. "lt's only lampblack. It'll all wash off after the exhibition." 4 Turner always regretted selling his paintings and would wear an expressionof woe for days after a sale."l've lost one of my children this week," he would explain. 5 The watercolorist Thomas Girtin was the exact contemporary of Turner, and their talents for evoking atmosphere by use of color 'When were astonishingly similar. Girtin died young in 1802, Turner observedin his characteristicallygenerouswayr"lf Girtin had lived, I would have stanred." 6 One of Turner's most famous and popular pictures was his painting of the fire that destroyed the old Houses of Parliamenrin 1834. It is remarkable for its evocation of an immenselycomplex scenecaught at amoment of high drama. Firsr exhibited at the British Institution, it was hung in a far from complete state. For three hours before the public were admitted, Turner work{d busily on it. tVhen he had finished,he just wflked aw^yrneverturning his head to have a lopk at the completed picture. The historical pfinter Daniel Maclise, who witnessed this e{traordinary scene,obseroed, "There, that's mhsterly; he does not stop to look at his work; he knows itis done and lre is
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Ar' 48 TWAIN, Mark [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-L9I0),UShumorist, writer,andlecturer. 4t ! boy liuingon thebanksof the Mississippi, hebecame enchanted with theromance of tiie-on thegreatriuer.Althoughapprenticed to a printer at an ear! dge,he neuerdid settledown to any one profession,but made his liuing as a riuir pilot, a prospector in theFarWest,a newspaper reporter. When he finolly began writing in

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her face and resolved to meet her. He later maneuveredan invitation to visit the Langdon home for aweek, and in that week he fell thoroughly for Livy, 2s the family called her. On the last d^y of his visit he said to Langdoo, "Charley, my week is up, and I must go home." Langdon did not presshim to stay longer, but said, "'We'll have to stand it, I guess,but you mustn't leavebefore tonight." "l ought to go by the first trainr" said Clemens gloomily. "l am in love." "ln what?" "ln love - with your sister,and I ought to get away from here." Langdon was now genuinely alarmed: no one was good enoughfor his sister,the family's darling. "Look here, ClemenSr" he said, "there's a train in half an hour. I'll help you catch it. Don't wait till tonight. Go no\ry." (ln fact, Clemensdid stay until after din- I ner. He and Langdon were about to set off for the station when the seat of their wagon, not properly locked into place, threw them into the street. Neither was seriously hurt; Clemens was only dazed, but made surethat he did not recovertoo quickly. He was taken back into the house, where he remained for another two weeks. Li'ny did become his wife.) 5 Mark Twain's wife did her best to censor the more picturesqueflights of her husband's language.One morning he cut himself shaving and cursed long and loud. \fhen he stopPed, his wife tried to shamehim by repeatingto him verbatim all the profanities that he had iust uttered. Twain heard her out and then remarked, "You have the words, my dear, but I'm afraid you'll never master the tune." notorious for his ruthless6 A businessman nessannouncedto Mark Twain, "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinaiand read the Ten Commandmentsaloud at the top." "I have a better idear" said Twain. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them." \Z Arriving at a small town in the courseof a ilecture tour, Mark Twain went to the local barber \barbershop for a shave, and told the 'oYou've lthat it was his first visit to the town. l.hor.n a good time to comer" said the barber. f'Mark Twain is going to lecture here tonight. fYou'll want to go, I suppose?"

earnest,he took his pseudonym from the riuerI man's term for water iust barely deepenoughfor \safe nauigation.Tom Sawyer(1575) and Huckleberry Finn (1884) Are consideredthe masterpieces in his prolific output As writer and lecturer Mark Twain proiected an enormously popular shrewd and comic personA. Consequently, innumerable anecdotes haue become attached to him. 1 In order to apply for the post of reporterat-large on the Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Clemenswalked 130 miles to Virginia City in Nevada Territory. He arrived at the newspaper's offices one hot afternoon in August, a dustcovered, weary strangerin a slouch hat, with a revolver slung on his belt, and a roll of blankets on his back. He wore a blue woolen shirt and dusty trouserstucked into his boots. Dropping into a chair, he announced,"My starboardleg seems to be unshipped. I'd like about one hundred yards of line; I think I am falling to pieces." He added, "My name is Clemensrand I've come to write for the paper." {Albert Bigelow Paine commented, "It was the master of the world's widest estate come to claim his kingdom.") 2 When Mark Twain was an impoverished young reporter in Virginia City, he was walking along the street one d^y with a cigar box under his arm. He encountered a wealthy lady he knew who said to him reproachfully, "You promisedme that you would giveup smoking." "Madam," replied Twain, "this box does not contain cigars.I'm iust moving." r J As a cub reporter' Mark Twain was told never to stateas fact anything that he could not personally verify. Following this instruction to Itte letter, he wrote the following account of a galasocial event: "A woman giving the name of Mts. James Jones,who is reported to be one of the society leadersof the city, is said to have given what purported to be a party yesterdayto " i ^ number of allegedladies.The hostessclaims I to be the wife of a reputed attorney." 4 On board ship on an expedition to the Holy Land, Clemens made the acquaintance of CharlesJ. Langdon, a young man from Elmira, New York, who was a greatadmirer of his. At some point Langdon showed him a miniature of his sistet, Olivia. Clemens could not forget

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his world tour. Twain arrived in time for the largewelcoming procession.On the way to the reviewing stand, the mayor of Chicago said, "General, let me present Mr. Clemens,a man almost as great as yourself." The two men shook hands,and there was a pause.Then the general looked at Twain gravely. "Mr. Clemensr" he saidr"I am not embarrassed, are you?" They both laughed. 12 Mark Twain often did his writing in bed, regardless of the time of day. On one occasion his wife came in to tell him that a reporter had arrived to interview him. \fhen Twain showed no sign of being ready to get up, she said, "Don't you think it will be a little embarrassing for him to find you in bed?" "Why, if you think so, Liry," Twain responded, "we could have the other bed made up for him." 13 Henry Iroing was telling Mark Twain a story. "You haven't heard this, have you?" he inquired after the preamble. Mark Twain assured him he had not. A little later lwing again paused and asked the same question. Mark Twain made the sameanswer. Irving then got almost to the climax of the tale before breaking off again-t'Are you quite sure you haveni heard this?" The third time was too much for his listener."I can lie oncer" saidTwain, "I can lie twice for courtesy'ssake,but I draw the line there. I can't lie the third time at any price. I not only heard the story, I invented it." 14 When Mark Twain was in London, a rumor of his death or imminent death reached the editor of the New York tournal, who senr its London correspondentthe following cablegrams: "IF MARK TWAIN DYING IN POVERTY IN LONDON SEND 5OO\UTORDS'' and "IF MARK T\7AIN HAS DIED IN POV'WORDS." ERTY SEND 1000 The lournal's man showed the cables to Mark Twain, who suggested the substanceof a reply to the effect that a cousin, JamesRoss Clemens,had been seriouslyill in London, but had recovered.The reply ended with "REPORT OF MY DEATH GREATLY EXAGGERATED.'' 15 One night a group of Twain's friends and admirers in New York, rememberingit was the writer's birthd^y, resolved to send him birthd"y greetings. The globe-troming Twain was

8 There were alwayscats at Mark Twain's farm,and favoritecatshadtheir own names Blatherskite, SourMash,StrayKit, Sin,Satan. His childreninheritedhis love of them. His bedaughterSusyonce said,"The difference and Mammais,that Mammaloves tweenPapa moralsand Papalovescats." f | 9 As Twain and his good friend the writer I I \Tilliam Dean Howells were leavingchurch it startedto rain heavily. Howells | | one Sunday, I llooked up at the cloudsand said,"Do you I lthink it will stop?" \ | "It alwayshas,"repliedTwain. l{ 10 tU7hen the printingplateswerebeingpreparedfor the illustrations to Huckleberry Finn, a mischievous engraver(whoseidentity was neverdiscovered despite the postingof a reward)madean additionto the pictureof old Phelps. He drewin a malesexorgan,thus Silas alteringentirelythe implications of the pictured Aunt Sally'squestion,"'Who do you think it is?"The alteration wasdiscovered only afterthousands of the bookshad beenprinted and bound,and the offending illusrrationhad to be cut out by handand replaced. ll After several attempts, Mark Twainat last
obtained an appointment to see General Ulysses S. Grant at home. He was elatedat this prospect, but when he actually confronted Grant and looked at that square, imperturbable, unsmiling face, he found himself , for the first time, unable to think of what ro say. Grant, noted for his taciturnity, nodded slightly and waited. Mark Twain hesitated,and then inspiration came. "Gene ralr" he said, "I seemto be a little embarrassed, are you?" This broke the ice, and there were no further difficulties. Twelve yearslater the two men met again in Chicago, at a reception for GeneralGrant after

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andnoneof themknewhis away on histravels So they maileda letter superscribed address. 'Where." Some "Mark Twain, God Knows an acknowledgment weekslaterthey received "He did." reading simply: Compare Sln HuupHRYDRvv L.
16 After attending a service conducted by Dr. Doane, later bishop of Albany, Mark Twain congratulated him on an enjoyable service. "l welcomed it as an old friendr" he went on. "l have a book at home containing every word of it." Dr. Doane bristled. "l am sureyou o'lndeed I have," have not," he replied huffily. Twain persisted."'Well, I'd like to have a look at it then. Could you sendit over to me?" The following day Twain sent him an unabridged diction ary. 17 A devoteeof cigars,Mark Twain was contemptuous of those who made a great to-do about giving up smoking. He always claimed that it was easyto quit: "l've done it a hundred times!" about his dress,one 18 Mark Twain, careless d^y called on Harriet BeecherStowe without his necktie. On his return Mrs. Clemens noticed the omission and scolded him. A little Mrs. Jtows s Stowe's uP on rvlrs. turned up rurneq i later a messenger \doorstep and handed her a small package.Inlsidewas a black necktie,and a note: "Here is a lnecktie.Take it out and look at it. I think I

20 Twain was tired of receivingphotographs from men claiming to be his double. To cope this entailedhe with the heavycorrespondence composed the following form letter and had his printer:run off a few hundred copies: "My dear Sir, I thank you very much for your letter and your photograph. In my opinion you are more like me than any other of my numerous doubles. I may even say that you resembleme more closelythan I do myself. In factr l intend to use your picture to shaveby. Yours thankfully, S. Clemens." 2I "ln a world without women," Twain was once asked,"what would men become?" "Scarce, sir," replied Twain. "Mighty scarce.tt

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19 Mark Twain loved to bragabout his hunting and fishing exploits. He once spent three weeks fishing in the Maine woods, regardless of the fact that it was the state'sclosed season for fishing. Relaxing in the lounge car of the train on his return journey to New York, his car, he looked catch iced down in the baggage for someoneto whom he could relatethe story of his successful holiday. The stranger to

22 In later life Mark Twain sufferedperiodically from bronchitis and arthritis. Whenever the newspapersreported that he had had another attack, well-wisherswould sendhim prescriptions, remedies,nostruffis, and elixirs of life in the hope of bringing about his recovery. He had a standard reply for acknowledging theseunsoliciteditems:"Dear Sir (or Madam), I try everyremedysent to me. I am now on No. 87. Yours is 2,653. I am looking forward to its beneficialresults." 23 When Mark Twain was born in Not vember 1835, Halley's comet blazed in the\ night sky. Twain often referred to this, and \ cameto think of himselfand the comet as"un- | accountablefreaks" which, havingcome in to- I gether, must go out together. He was right: I when he oied in AprilLglO, Halley'scomet was t again in the sky.

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Ar' 48 ULBRICHT, Walther (1893-1973), East German statesman. I Extolling the glories of the East German State,Ulbricht declared:"The millennium is on the horizon." "That was a wonderful speech ," anaide said to him afterward. "But is the millennium truly on the horizon?" "Of courser" said Ulbricht. "Don't you know the diction ary defines 'horizon' as 'an lmaginary line which recedesas you approach it'?" three-point field goal, which would have won the game. Instead of going for the easierfield goal, he went for a six-point touchdown. He completeda risky cross-field pass,rhen handed the ball to Alan Ameche,who ran acrossfor the winning touchdown. Later Unitas was asked if the passmight not have been intercepted and run back for a winning touchdown the other way. "When you know what you're doing, they're not interceptedr" he said. The questioner then asked why he had nor called for a field goal. "l went for the touchdownr" said Unitas with a grin, "because I had bet a few thousand on the game and I had given 3t points." Ar, ".6 UNTERMEYER, Louis (1885-1977), US poet and writer. Besidesproducing many uolumes of poetry and critical writings, he edited a number of poetry anthologies. I Untermeyer once returned his speaker'sfee to a small and impoverished group, enjoining them to put the money to good use. A little while later, happeningto inquire what good use they had found for the money, he was told that they had put it into "a fund ro ger better speakersnext year." {This ancedote is told of others.} 2 At a New Year's Eve costume party Louis Untermeyer entered fully into the spirit of the thing, donning a funny paper hat and making an uproarious racket upon a horn. A student walked up, looked closelyat him, then turned on her heel, snorting contemptuously, "And he's Required Reading!" Ar, 48 UNZELMANN, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (1753-1832), German actor and singer.

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Ustinov was unwise enough to choose the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The opera was Aida: during one particular scene the whole stage seemed to be covered with animalscamels,elephants,horses,unwanted cats, and so on. At a climactic point, almost all the anisimultaneously.As he mals relieved themselves stared aghast at this incredible sight, Ustinov felt a light tapping on his shoulder, and his daughter's earnest voice -66p4ddy, is it all right if I laugh?"

at the Berlin wasplaying I WhenUnzelmann theater,the other actorsfound his ad libs so told him to distractingthat the management $top.The following night, as he madehis enthe horsecommittedan tranceon horseback, throughthe auLaughterspread indiscretion. said Unzeldience."Don't you rememberr" "that we areforbidmannsternlyto his steed, den to improvise?" A.' {8 USTINOV, Peter(I92I- ), Britishactor,director, playwright, and raconteur.His many includeQuo Vadis (1951), fil* appearances Spartacus(1950), and Death on the Nile (1975). Amonghis pkys areRomanoffandJuand The Love of liet (1955), filmed in 1961", (1951.). Four Colonels 1 As a fathertakinghisverywell-brought-up to the operafor the first time, youngdaughter

an irate letter from 2 Ustinovonce received of his son'sschool.The boy the headmaster making playedthe fool in lessons, persistently laugh,and it was felt that Ushis classmates tinov should use his influenceto control the that child. Ustinovremindedthe headmaster the only reasonhe was able to afford the school'shigh fees was that he was paid for the samething. doingprecisely

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I After a prolonged absencefrom his office the commodore returned to find that Charles Morgan and C. K. Garrison, his associates in the AccessoryTransit Company, had taken advantageof the power of attorney he had vested in them and had done considerabledamageto his interests. Recovering from his initial rage, Vanderbilt dictated the following letter to them: "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." {He did not quite succeed in ruining Morgan and Garrison, but he thwarted and humiliated them and regained control of his company.) 2 One of Vanderbilt's sons-in-law, needing $50,000 to set up a business,approachedthe commodore for the loan. The old man inquired how much he expected to make from the investment. "About five thousand a yearr" was the reply. "l can do better than that with fifty thousand dollars," said Vanderbilt. "Tell you what I'll do. I'll pay you five thousand a year hereafter,and you may consider yourself in my employ at that salary."
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4., {6 VANDERBILT, Alice(c.1845-c. 1930) ,wife of CorneliusVanderbiltII, the financier. I While havingluncheonone d^y at the old Ambassador Hotel with her sonReggie andhis new second wife, Gloria,Alice VanderbiltenquiredwhetherGloriahad received her pearls. \7hen Reggieanswered that he had nor yer boughtany because the only pearls worthy of his bridewerefar beyondhisprice,his mother calmly ordered that a pair of scissorsbe broughtto her.When the scissors arrived,she proceeded to cut off about one-thirdof her own pearls, worth some$701000, and handed them to her daughter-in-law. "There you are, Gloria," shesaid."All Vanderbiltwomenhave peads." A'' 48 VANDERB ILT, Cornelius(1794-1877), US businessmnn. His nicknattt, "Commodore," deliuedfrom his ownershipof a fleet of cargo schooners. He thenturrtedto steamboAts, competing in the Hudson Riuer trade.After an aduenturousdecade establishing a New York-to-

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3 Cornelius Vanderbiltwasan admirerof the ! \ilToodhull famousand unconventional sisrers, I one of whoseinterests wasspiritualism. In his 1 seventies he expressed a wish ro ger financial 1 advice from hisdeadfriend,JimFiske. Victoria f Woodhull offeredto contac his spirit. In t!t. I

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550 "'What-[ in hisanswer. professor wasquiteclear everyou want," he told them,"just so longasI you don't miss the main thing!" \7hen the I what that was,hesaidsimply, youngmenasked I "Your own lives." t As' "tE VARAH, Chad(19II- ), BritishclergymAn. a telephone theSamaritans, hefounded In 1953 The orseruice for the suicidaland despairing. ganization, which started with a single teletheBritish phone, throughout now hasbranches and the UnitedStates. Isles
1 When Chad Varah decidedto start his telephone senricefor the despairing,he wanted to find a simple, easilyrememberednumber that had something of an emergencyfeel about it. His center, in the crypt of the church of St. Stephen\Talbrook, was in the Mansion House telephone are of London, so its telephone number would have the prefix MAN. Varah decided on MAN 9000. His next step was to find out from the Post Office whether the number was availablefor his use. Standingin the crypt, he noticed for the first time that there was a dusty old telephonein a corner' To his surprise,he found it was still working. He rang the Post Office telephone sales department and made his request. The Post Office clerk askedhim from what number he was calling. Rubbing the center of the dial with his handkerchief,Varah wasastoundedto readthe number- MAN 9000. Ar, -8 VATEL (?1522-71), French chef. I Louis XIV was to be the guestof honor at a dinner at Chantilly prepared by Vatel. The chef, having ordered a large quantity of fish ports, rose earlyto inspectthe from the nearest as it was delivered.He found fish quality of the to his horror that only two hampershad been brought, not nearly enoughfor the royal p?ryy. "Is that all there is?" he asked."Ysr" said the fishmonger,meaning that no more would be coming Trom his particular fishing fleet. Vatel misunderstood; he thought that there would be no more fish coming at all. "l cannot endure this disgrace,"he cried. Going to his room, he fixed hii sword into the door and ran upon the point.

VANDERBILT, William Henry (1,821-85), US railroad magnate, son of "Commodore" Cornelius V anderbilt. 1 William asked if he could buy the manure from his father's horse-carstablesto enrich his land at New Dorp on StatenIsland. The elder Vanderbilt agreed,and the price was settledat four dollars per load -a generous figure. A few weeks later, the commodore was surprised to learn from his son that only one load had beenferried acrossto the island;he had seenat leasttwenty wagonloadsput on the scow. The younger Vanderbilt replied, "No, Father, I never let them put more than one load on at a time - one scow load, I mean." Cornelius was quick to realtze that his son's talent could be put to better use and persuadedhim to enter the world of finance.

Vanderbilt, 2 A reportercornered\UTilliam headof the New York CentralRailroad,declaringthat the publichad a right to know his Vanderbiltpushed issue. mind on a particular I "The public be damned. pasthim snappitrB, my for stockholders." am working deathhis for3 After William Vanderbilt's Shortly at $200,000,000. tune was estimated beforehe died he saidof this wealth,"l have of any or enioyment had no realgratification on the next block sort morethanmy neighbor who is worth only half a million." 4., -8 US Poet VAN DOREN, Mark (1894-1972), and literarycritic. He wasprofessolof English (1942-59). at ColumbiaUniuersity in uninvitedto a I A bore once blundered hostedby Mark Van Doren, literarygathering over a pall of dullness spread and immediately the interthe wholeparty.After his departure Someone thetopicof discussion. loperbecame for that it must be heartbreaking o6served to thefaceof everyone like thatto see someone and borewith distaste whom he spokefreeze dom. "You forget that a personlike that has any other kind of expresneverencountered sionr"saidVan Doren. \ 2 A group of young men askedVan Doren what ihey-should do with their lives. The

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(1813-190I), VERDI, Giuseppe Italian operatic composer. He wrotea numberof theworks most frequentlyperformedin the grand opera repertoire, includingRigoletto (185 1), La T raviata (1853),Il Trovatore (1853),and Aida (1871). (1574) His glorious Requiem wAscomposedfor Alessandro Manzoni. I ThoughpatrioticItalians cheered Verdi at every performance, the enthusiasm was not solelyascribable to their devotion to grand opera.By a fortunatechance the composer's surname was the acronymof a phrase dearto all Italian nationalists after 1,851:"Vimorio Emmanuele, Re d'ltalia." 2 Onesummer Verdi renteda large cottage in a fashionable Italianresort.A visitorwassomewhat surprisedto find the composerapparently occupying only one room, which served as bedroom,sitting room, and study. "Why don't you usethe restof the house?" heasked. Verditook him into theotherrooms; every one of them waspackedto the ceilingwith barrel- ninety-fivein all. "They were all organs churning out operas of mine,"Verdiexplained, - Il Trouatore- and all the others. "Rigoletto It wasclearly impossible for me ro work under such conditions,so I havehired the organs from their owners. It will cosrmeaboutfifteen hundred lirefor thesummer, bur thatis not roo largea price to pay for peace." Ar, .c6 VERLAINE, Paul (1844-96), poet,a French precursor of the Symbolistmouement. Hauing shot the young poet Arthur Rimbaud in th-e wrist afteran argument,Verlaine wAssentenced (1873)to two years'imprisonment. While in prisonhewrofeRomances sans parole s (1874); his later works includedthe critical study Les PoEtes maudits(1884).

I Poet and painter F. A. Cazals,a friend of Verlain e, arrangedto meet the poet at a cafe, but was unavoidably late. When he finally did arrive, he was a trifle neryous, for Verlaine drunk was unpredictable.A mutual friend met Cazalsat the door and warned him that Verlaine, hopelessly drunk, was "furious with you." Cazals entered to find Verlaine surrounded by his acolytes,but a little lessdrunk than he had been described.Cazalstook courage:"l hear that you were abusingme just a few j i minutes ago." "'Who told you that?" cried the furious Verlaine. "Somebody you don't know," replied . Cazalsprudently. i "Somebody I don't know!" exclaimedVerlaine. He beganto weave his way through the crowded cafe. "l'm going outside, and the first r passerbyI don't know,l'il - I'll - lll smash ; ' his iaw!" A'' 48 VERRALL, Arthur Wooll gar (1851,-1,91,2), British classical scholar, who taught at Cambridge for thirty-fiue years.

I A pupil of Verrall'stold him that mutual\ friends of theirshadmovedto 58 oakleystreetI andremarked that hewas afraidthat58 would I be a difficult numberto remember. "Not at \ all," Verrallcontradicted him. "The Septuagint t minusthe Apostles."
Ar, ,.8 -91), British society VESEY, Elizabeth (?1,715 hostess. 1 In the late 1740s, Mrs. Vesey invited the naturalist Benjamin Stillingfleetto her salon at Bath. Shecountered his protesr that he had no clothes suitable for such a fashionablegarhering by assuringhim he need nor mind about dress.His arrival at the salon in blue worsted stockings caused some comment among the society leaders.Stillingfleetsoon becam e a habitu6, however, and so the salon gained the nickname of the "Blue Stocking Society." {The term "bluestocking," first applied to the female members of Mrs. Vesey's salon, is still in use today.) Ar, {6

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here the Passionof the Savior repeatsitself except in reverse." "l don't understand." In those days "What's to understand? died for us all. Here all of us die for one. &s' '-'8 queen 9-1901,), of the United VICTORIA (181 Kingdom (1837-1901). She came to the throne on the death of her uncle, William IV , and during her long reign built up the prestige of the British Crown. The ratlter stuffy rectitudeof her personallife and her deuotion to duty exemplifitd nineteenth-century Britain. She married (1840) her cousin, Prince Albert of SaxeCoburg-Gotha (1819-61,),by whom she had nine children. Her inuoluement with policymaking sometimesouerrodethe proper bounds of a constitutional monarchy, resulting in an uneasyrelationship with her ministers, particularly rt illiam Gladstone. I Victoria was eleven years old when she learned that she stood next in line to the showed her a list of the throne. Her governess kings and queens of England with her own name added after those of GeorgeIV and \filliam IV. The child burst into tearsas the implications sank in. Then she controlled herself and said solemnly,"l will be good." 2 As a young woman Victoria was a keen theatergoer.At a performance of King LeAr, however, the tragedy failed to engageher attention, and for most of the early part of the who play she chatted to the lord chamberlain, was in her box. At last she beganto pay more affention to the stage.After a while the lord chamberlain ventured to ask her what she thought of the play. "A strange,horrible busigood enough ness,"shereplied,"but I suppose dty." for Shakespeare's of Kent, to3 Victoria's mother, the Duchess tally dominated her daughter'supbringing and clearlyhad ambitions to be the power behind the throne once Victoria becamequeen. The princessslept in her mother's room and was never allowed to talk to anyone except in the or the duchpresence of her Germangoverness -ess. The very d"y that \Tilliam IV died and the throne' the Duchessof Victoria ascended Kent cameto Victoria afterthe statedignitaries

VespaVESPASIAN [Titus FlaviusSabinus sianusl(ep 9-79), Romanemperor(70-79). humble orirose Vespasian from comparatiuely his successes ginsthrough his military prowess; his reputationthat he was proso enhanced situathe confused to resolue claimedemperor he As emperor at Nero'sdeath. tion that arose , worked hard to improuethe conditionof the Romanpeople.
L Vespasian'savarice was one of the few faults held againsthim. On one occasiona faasked for a stewvorite servantof Vespasian's ardship for a man he claimed was his brother. told him to wait and askedthe canVespasian didate for the stewardshipto come to him for a private interview. "How much commission would you havepaid my servant?"he inquired. The applicantmentioned a sum. "You may pay that directly to me," said the emperor and granted him the desiredpost. Later the senrant told him, alluded to the matter, and Vespasian "You'd better go and find yourself another brother. The one you mistook for yours turned out to be mine." 2 Vespasian imposed taxes on many commodities to restore the Roman state to solvency; he even taxed Rome's public urinals. son Titus obiected to this When Vespasian's tax as beneaththe dignity of the state' Vespasiantook a handful of coins obtained from this sourceand held them to his son'snose'saying, "See,my boy, if they smell." {kt France a public urinal is still sometimes known as a uespasienne.)

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had departed and inquired if there was anything she could do for her. "I wish to be left alone," replied Victoria, and the sameday she gave orders for her bed to be moved from the room. duchess's 4 Stafford House, the London house of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, was the center of high society in the early years of Queep Victoria's reign. The duchess was a of closefriend of the queen.The magnificence Stafford House led Victoria to remark to her libstesson one of her frequent visits, "I have come from my house to your palace." 5 Before she made the announcementto her councillors of her decisionto marry Prince Albert, Queen Victoria was seento be trembling. Someoneasked her if she was newous. "Yes, but I havejust done afar more neffous thing," replied the queen. "l proposed to Prince Albert." 6 \WhenVictoria was about to marry Prince Albert, shewished to havethe title "King Consort" bestowedupon him by act of Parliament. Lord Melbourne, knowing the depth of opposition to such a move on behalf of an unknown German princeling, strongly advisedagainstit. "For God's sake,ma'am,let's haveno more of that. If you get the Englishpeople into the way of making kings,you'll get them into the way of unmaking them."
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shereplied,"can I haveno more fun SirJamsr" in bed?" {This question was probably euphemistic, in that the queen was trying to find out as delicatelyas possibleexactly what her chief physician implied. A more exaspect of pected attitude to the sex_u_al marriageappearsin one of Victoria's letters concerning the marriage of one of her daughters: she remarks that it is doubtful whether a refined young lady could go through the wedding ceremony if she were fully aware of the physical horrors on the other side of it.) 9 In the earlyyearsof their marri t1e,Victoria and Albert visited Florence several times, greatly impressed by the city's architectural Of these,the Brunelleschidome surtreasures. al famounting the cathedralwas their person vorite. Victoria returned to Florence some years afterAlbert's death to find that the dome had been magnificentlyrestored. She ordered the carriage to stop in the piazza outside the cathedraland rolled down the window. Opening up the locket that hung around her neck, she turned the miniature of her beloved husband to face the building, so that he could share with her the splendor of the newly restored dome. Then, after a few moments' silent contemplation,sheclosedthe locket and drove away. 10 It was well known that the queen disapproved of tobacco and had bannedsmoking in the royal residences. Her sons, however, smoked a great deal, and, according to a popular story, had appropriateda room in Windsor to use as a smoking room. Panic ensuedwhen they learned that their mother intended to make an inspectionof everyroom in the castle, until the Princeof \U7ales thought up a solution. The letters \ilfc were without delayput up over the door. l1 The queenand her daughter,the Empress Frederick of Prussia,who had distinctly different literary tastes, were arguing about the merits of the popular romantic novelist Marie Corelli. The queen claimed that Marie Corelli would rank as one of the greatestwriters of the time; the EmpressFrederick thought her writings were trash. The empress summoned a

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was out of place in its context as being disrespecdulor too risqu6 for the company, especially if young unmarried women were present. The queen apparently did not object to occasionalrisqu storiesif told in the proper company,but "'We are not amused" may well havebeen her stock expressionto cut off any train of conversationthat sheconsideredinappropriate.) 16 Victoria once received a letter from a prodigal grandson,askingfor an advanceon his allowance.Rather than sendthe motry,Victoria replied with a long letter extolling the value of thrift, diligence,and initiative. The boy took the queen'sadviceto heart- he sold the letter for twenty-five pounds.

gentleman-in-waiting, who had not heard rhe beginning of the discussion, and asked his opinion of Marie Corelli. He replied that he thought the secret of her popularity was that her writings appealed to the semieducated. The subject was dropped very quickly. 12 On a crossingto Ireland the ship in which Queen Victoria was traveling encountered rough weather. A gigantic wave causedsuch a violent lurch that the queen was almost knocked off her feet. Recoveringher balance she said to an attendant, "Go up to the bridge, give the admiral my compliments,and tell him he's not to let that happen again."

', 13 "ln order to hearhow HMS Eurydice, a i frigate sunk off Portsmouth,had been salvaged,QueenVictoria invited Admiral Foley to lunch. Having exhaustedthis melancholy subject, Queen Victoria inquired after her close friend, the Admiral's sister. Hard of hearing, Admiral Foley replied in his stentorian voice, '\il7ell, Ma'am, I am going to have her turned over, take a good look at her bottom and have it well scraped.'The Queenput down her knife and fork, hid her facein her handkerchief,and laughed until the tears ran down her cheeks."
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17 On the anniversary of QueenVictoria's her children death, would visitthe mausoleum at Frogmore. One yearras theykneltpiouslyin prayer, a doveentered the mausoleum andflew about. "lt is dear Mama'sspiritr" they murmured."No, I am sureit's notr" contradicted Princess Louise. "It must be dear Mama's "No, it isn'tr" saidPrinspiritr"theypersisted. Louise."Dear Mama'sspiritwould never cess haveruinedBeatrice's hat." original for this story was source {The PrinceHenry, later the Duke of Gloucester.) Ac' 48 VIDAL, Gore(1925- ), USwriter,authorof Burr, Lincoln, and other nouels and works of nonfiction.
I The English novelist Anthony Powell, tt- I tending an international writers' conferencein I; Sofia,Bulgaria,found himself alongsideVidal, tI t inspectingsome pictures taken of the session. I Several of theseshowed Vidal besidean Indian delegate."I always sit next to a man in a turban," explainedVidal. "You get photographed
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555 Comte Auguste, VILLIERS de L'Isle-Adam, Frenchwriter of the Symbolist de (1838-89), school.His works includePremiiresPoesies shortstories, (1855-58), tbe nouellsis (1552), plays. and who wasleavingl | "Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, anf thefollowingd"y for Londonto bemarried, realized, camlrof never was which expec-tation to betaughtEn1 r.. Mdlarm6and . . asked '\(/illingly,' replied Mallar-e{ glish at once. 'but I cannotbeginthe lessons for two days.'l 'Oh,' repliedVilliers,'we cansimplifymatters.l youl As it is a questionof a comingmarriage, of theI might teachme only the future tenses tt
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were in proved scientificallythat the Prussians origin Franks- cousins,in fact, of the French But the epithet, "Hun" was apthemselves. plied derogatorily to the Germans thereafter, especially by Germany's enemies in the two world wars. 3 Appendectomy first became widely andl safelypracticed in the late nineteenth century.f SomeoneaskedVirchow whether it was indee{ true that human beingscan suryivewithout th{ appendix. "Human beings, yes," replied Vir{ I chow, "but not surgeons."
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As' e8 German VIRCHOW, Rudolf (L821-L902), pathologist and politiciAn.A reformerin poliof Otto uon opponent hewastbeoutspoken tics, Bismarck.He playeda largepart in modernizing Berlin,and as directorof Berlin'sPathoIogiial Institute led or inspiredmuch original research.
1 Bismarck, enraged at Virchow's .otttt"ttt] criticisffis,had his secondscall upon the scien-| tist to challengehim to a duel. "As the chal-| lenged party, I have the choice of weaponsr"I said Virchow, "and I choose these." He heldf aloft two large and apparently identical sau-l "One of theser" he went otr, "is infectedl sages. with deadlygerms;the other is perfectly sound.l Let His Excellencydecidewhich one he wishesl to eat, and I will eat the other." Almost imme-f came back that the chan{ diately the message cellor had decided to laugh off the duel. I 2 The French ethnologist Armand de Quatrefageswas incensedby the damagedone to Paris's natural history museum by German War of 1870. shellsduring the Franco-Prussian were by racenot He declaredthat the Prussians Nordic or Teutonic but descendantsof the barbarianhordes of Huns who ravishedeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.Virchow was outragedby this racial slur. As a member of the Prussian Parliament, he introduced a bill by which the physical characteristics of every - six million in number schoolchild in Prussia - could be examinedand assessed. The suryey was carried out, head measurements,bones, hair, and teeth were all analyzedrand Virchow

Arouet](1694VOLTAIRE [Franeois-Marie philosopber, writer,and wit. His ' French 1778), inquiringmindandskepticalui ews,particutarlyl E"- I theFrench of religion, epitomize on matters in troublewith the auFrequently lightenment. thorities, he was briefly imprisonedand en(1725-29). exilein England dureda three-year For many yearshe liued with the philosopher on authorof a commentary Mme du Chdtelet, Newton. After her deathhe mouedfor a short time (1750-53)to the court of Frederickthe madehis homemainly in Greatand thereafter Switzerland. His huge output included welluerse dramas,histories,philosophical receiued treatises,criticism, and the prose romance Candide(1759),satirizingthe philosophyof Leibniz.
of a satire 1 In 1717 Voltaire, in consequence directed againstthe regent,_fhi[gpe d'Orl6ans, was imprisoned in the Bastille for eleven months. Liberated, Voltai re, ahighly adaptable man, thanked the regent for the gracious pardon. The latter, awareof Voltaire's power, was equally anxious to effect a reconciliation and made all the appropriate apologies.Voltaire replied: "Your Highness, I am most grateful for your generositywith respectto my board but in the future you need not worry yourself about my lodging." 2 Voltaire and a selectgroup of friends were running through Voltaire's latest play before its production. During the reading of a lengthy speech,Montesquieu fell asleep."'Wake him upr" said Voltaire. "He seemsto imagine that he's in the audience." 3 In 1725 Voltaire became involved in a stupid quarrel with the Chevalier de Rohan-

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birth to twins!" Voltaire replied,"Don't let i that disturbyou. I believe only half of wha, t/ hearat the court."
9 At the funeral of a certain nobleman, Vol- | taire declared, "He was a great patriot, a hu- | manitarian, a loyal friend - provided, ofl course,that he really is dead." I 10 In 1759 Casanova, the author of the famou s Mhmoires, set out from Parison a twoyear journey around Europ, in the course of which he visited Voltaire in Switzerland.Voltaire had beenreadingsomeof the works of the Swissphysiologist and polymath Albrecht von Haller. He praised them to his guest. "That praise is ill returnedr" said Casanova,"for he has been sayingthat your work is nonsense." Voltaire smiled. "Perhaps we are both mistakenr" he said. ll Voltaire drank prodigious guantities of

Chabot, a short-temperedaristocrat, possibly over Voltaire's mistress, the famous actress Adrienne Lecouvreur. There was an exchange of insults at the Opra, in which the chevalibr cameout badly and left the theater threatening revenge.A few days later Volraire was dining with a patron when he was told that someone wished to speakto him. In the srreeta number of ruffians hired by the chevalier fell on him and beat him up. The chevalier,who watched the whole episode from his own coach, cried out, "Be careful not to hit him on the head. Somethingmight come out of that one d^y." 4 Voltaire was in exile in London ar a rime when popular feelings ran high against the French. One d^y on the street he was surrounded by an angry mob shouting, "Hang him. Hang the Frenchman!" Turning to face the mob, Voltaire said, "Men of England!You wish to kill me because I am a Frenchman.Am I not punished enough in not being born an Englishman?"This hctful speechso pleasedthe crowd that they cheered and escorted him safely back to his lodgings. 5 Rousseau senta copy of his "Ode to Posterity" hot off the press to Voltaire for his opinion. Voltaire read it through and commented, "I do not think this poem will reach its destination." 6 A notoriously dissolutegroup of Parisians invited Voltaire to participate in an orgy. He accepted,giving such a satisfactoryaccount of himself that the very next night he was askedro come again."Ah, oo, my friendsr" saidVoltaire with a slight smile. "Once: a philosopher; twice: a peryert!" 7 Though it enjoyed an unprecedentedsuccess,Voltaire's Oedipe drew the criticism of the aged Fontenelle,who told the author that he consideredsome of the verses"too strong and full of fire." "To correct myself I shall read your Pastorales," Voltaire replied. 8 After a long absence a royal favorite returned to the court of Frederick the Great. Many rumors circulated as to the reason for her absence. Shecomplained to Voltaire, "The things they say about me are incredible! They evensayI retired to the country in order to give

throughouthislife. S-ome coffee bfr6 warned him that he shouldgive up the beverage beit wasa slowpoison."I think it mustbe cause replied,"for I slow," the elderlyphilosopher years havebeendrinking it for sixty-five and I am not deadyet." is alsoattributedto Ber{This rejoinder who died lessthan a nard Fontenelle, month before reachinghis hundredth birthday.) modelvillage at Fer12 Visitorsto Voltaire's remarked on the churchthat neynearGeneva hadbuilt therefor thevillagers. the old skeptic Over the door was the dedication:"DEO EREXIT VOLTAIRE." Voltaireliked to observe that it wasthe only churchin Europethat to God. waserected
13 At Fertrey,Voltaire once had as guestsa , certain Huber and also the noted mathematician Jean d'Alembert. It was proposed that each ad-lib a story involving thieves. Huber's invention was received with acclamation, as "--") was d'Alembert's. It was now Voltaire's turn. f "Gentlemenr" he said, "there was once a tax ' ' collector . ! good Lord, I've forgotten the rest of the story," '( 14 In the last year of his life the famous inva'I I lid, domiciled at the Marquis de Villette's manI sion, was visited by hordes of admirers, anx,l

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Among them , f ious to pay their last respects. | {were two mediocredramatists, Antoine LeVoltaire reBelloy. de Dormont and [mierre farewell I as take them, "Gentlemen, to i \marked that I knowledge by the I consoled life, am bf anddeBelloy."After behindmeLemierre lleave wasfond of recalling / Voltaire'sdeathLemierre failingto add,"And poor de words,never I these that Voltaire wasmakI neiloy neversuspected him." fun ittg of I
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4., 4t VUKOVICH, Bill (L918-55), US racing driuer. He won the lndianapolis 500 in L953 and was in theleadin the 1955rAce and 1954, to his death. when he crashed sucI Asked the secretof his Indianapolis You Vukovich said,"There'sno secret. cess, to the floor and steer the accelerator iust press left."

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WALLACH, Eli (1915- ), US actor. After sixteen years on the stage he made his screen debut inBaby Doll (1956). His subsequentfilms include The Moonspinners (1964), The Tiger Makes Out (1957),and The Sentinel(1977). I At the 1964 opening on Broadway of the Luu, \fallach gazedconimmenselysuccessful tentedly at the long line of people at the box office and remarked to a fellow performer: "There's something about a crowd like that that brings a lump to my wallet." A* e8 WALLER, Edmund (1606-87), British lyric poet. In 1543, after a plot to seizeLondon for Charles I failed,Waller barely escapedwith his life and went into exile. He subsequentlymade his peace with the opposing Cromwell and returned to England (1551) but at the Restoration reuerted to the royalist side, enioying the fauor of both Charles II and J ames II. 'Waller's most successfulpoems I One of with a political theme is his panegyricon Oliver Cromwell. His later laudatory verses on CharlesII were generallyconsideredinferior in poetic merit. The king having commented upon this difference, \Taller replied, "Poets, sire, succeedbetter in fiction than in truth." 4., 48 WALN, Nicholas (1742-1813), US lawyer and a prominent member of the Quaker community. 1 A Quaker meeting having detected some fault in Walo, I deputation of elderswas sentto remonstrate with him. They knocked and knocked at his front door but without result. At last an upstairs window was thrown open

poliWALKER, James John(1S81-1945),US tician, mayorof New York (1925-32). I Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") Lee's fa"To the mous toast to GeorgeWashington, peace, in first in war, first man, of the memo ry was and first in the heartsof his countrymenr" Birthdaycelebra-at a Washington's repeated tory banquetby Jimmy \(alker. After a brief the mayorwent oD,"No one'severunpause to marryawidow." how hehappened derstood
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2 After his arduous years in office, \Talpole looked forward to retirement in his splendid mansion, Houghton Castle. Entering the library, he took down a book, perused it for a few minutes, and then returned it to the shelf. He took down another, but held that only half as long before replacing it and taking a third. This he immediately put back, and, bursting into tears, exclaimed, "I have led a life of businessso long that I have lost my taste for readirg, and now-what shall I do?" Ar, 48

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often find hard\ instructors New college in coping with brashyoung challenges University At Columbia undergraduates. 'Weaver Raymond the young Professor gavehis first classin Englishliterature their first quiz.The youngmen,who had beentrying to makethingshard for the new instructor,whistledwith ioy when of the booksread wrote:"'S7hich Weaver so far has interestedyou least?"They whenhe wrote the weresilent,however, "To what andthe last,question: second, defectin yourselfdo you attributethis lack of interest?" -Jacob M. Braude, and Speaker's Handbook ToastmAster's

conGerman WALTER, Bruno (1876-1962), ductor. He directedthe Vienna Court Opera (1901-12)and became renowned for his interpretationsof GustauMahler.At the beginning States. theUnited of WorldWar ll, hemouedto 1 When Bruno Walter first conductedthe Alfred Wallenstein New York Philharmonic, was the first cellist.\Talter noticed that Wallenstein ostentatiouslyignored him during and concerts. Rather than both rehearsals asked\Tallenin public,\U7alter makea scene stein to come and speak to him privately. "What is your ambitiotr, Mr. \Tallenstein?" \'il0alter I'd like to be inquiredmildly."Someday a conductor,"repliedthe cellist."'Well,when in neverhave\Tallenstein you arer l hopeyou'S7alter. front of your" said Ar' 48 WALTON, Sir William [Turner](1902-83), He first attractedpublic noBritish composer. a musicalseningof tice with Facade(1.922), poems by Edith Sitwell. I-ater works include symphonies,concertos,incidental music fo, Oliuier'sShakespearean Laurence films, theor(1937), and theopera atorio Belshazzaf s Feast (1954). Troilusand Cressida for the first performance 1 At the rehearsals the playerswere at first irritated, of Fac.ade, and finally delightedby the then interested, strangeand difficult new sounds that the

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get to hisfeet,while hiscompanions remained slumpedat the table. "'Well," he said,abandoninghis efforts,"considerit standing." As' ''8 WARNER, Jack(I892-I978),USmouie producer,co-founder of WarnerBrothers. Warners pioneered soundmouies in 1925,and in 1927 producedthe first fullJengh talkie, The Jazz Singer.Someof the greatest Hollywood stars and screen successes camefrom the Warners' studio. I The actor Pat O'Brien recallsthat Jack Warner bought Sinclair Lewis's worldwide best-seller Main Street and changed the title to I Marrieda Doctoronthegrounds thatnobody "would want to seea pictureabouta street." The moviedied. 2 In 1,946, when British Field MarshalBernard Montgomery Mr. and visitedCalifornia, Mrs. Samuel Goldwyngavea dinnerfor him. "It gives Goldwynbegan: me greatpleasure to welcometo Hollywood a very distinguished soldier. Ladies andgentlemen, I propose a toast to MarshallField Montgomery."The silence 'Warner's was broken by Jack voice saying, "MontgomeryWard,you mean." departmenr {MarshallFieldis a Chicago store;Montgomery\il7ard is a major US mail-order chain.)
3 Warner was in the habit of taking an afternoon nap in his office at'Warner Brothers,and it was an unwritten rule of the studios that he should not be disturbed. On one occasion, however, Bette Davis burst into the office while Warner was asleep and began ranring about a script that did nor meer with her ap'Warner proval. tVithout opening his eyes, reachedfor the phone and called his secrerary. "Come in and wake me upr" he said. "I'm having a nightmare." Miss Davis could not help laughing, and the crisis over the script was resolved in a few minutes. As' 48 WASHINGTON, George(1732-99),USgeneral and statesman,first president of the United States(17 89-97). As a young mnn Washington gained a bigh military reputation in the Seuen YeArs'War (17 55-63).While a memberof Vir(1759-74), he beginia's House of Burgesses

young\falton, ascomposer-conductor, asked themto make.Duringoneof the pauses in the rehearsal the clarinetistlooked up from his "Excuse score andasked, me,Mr. Walton,has a clarinetplayereverdoneyou an injury?" 2 Until the success of his film scorefor LaurenceOlivier'sHenry V in L942Walton was poor, and as he himselfadmittedin later life, livedby scrounging off the Sitwellfamily.Lady Aberconway, a closefriend of the Sitwells and a well-knownLondon hostess of the 1930s, recalledthat Walton was known to them by the nickname"Lincrusta." It was the tradenamefor a particularkind of embossed wallpaperthat was extremely difficult to detach.
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WARBURTON, William (1698-1779), British clergyman and literary scholar;bisbop of (1759-79). Besides poleGloucester theological mic, Warburton brought out an edition of Shakespeare's works(1747) that wasmuchcriticized. I During a debatein the House of Lords upon the Test Laws,underwhich thosewho wishedto standfor public officewereobliged to professthe Anglicanfaith, the witty and profligateEarl of Sandwichcomplained,"I haveheardfrequentuseof the words 'orthomyselfat but I confess dory' and 'heterodor.y' what they mean." a loss to know precisely him in a whisBishopWarbufton enlightened is anpr,"Orthodo*y is my dor.y;heterodor.y other man'sdoxy." 8ro '.8 WARD, Artemus [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834- 67),US humorous writer. lecture tour andlucrative I After a successful Ward headed westin Ocstates, of the eastern of the SanFrancisco tober 1853.The manager asking whathe senthim a telegram operahouse \fard would takefor forty nightsin California. wired back:"Brandyand water.A. Ward."
2 Artemus Ward spent Christmas Eve 1863 with Mark Twain and some other cronies at Barnum's Restaurant in Virginia City. A great deal of liquor was consumed, and toward the end of the eveningWard proposed "a standing toast." He made severalineffectual attempts to

571 of British rule,and enemy an implacable cAme on the outbreakof war with Britain was apin chief of the Americnn pointed commander lack of equipment,disciOuercoming forces. pline, and euenfood, Washingtonweldedtouicgetherhis army throughyearsof indecisiue until hewasable,with defeats toriesand costly Frenchaid, to force the surrenderof General Cornwallisat Yorktown (1781).He presided (1787) and Conuention ouertheConstitutional president of tlte new elected was unanimously Republicafter tbe Constitution had beenapproued. (L800) Weems'sLife of Washington I Parson storiesabout his containsmany apocryphal than fachero and ranksmore ashagiography tual biography.His best-known fabrication (introduced into the 1805edition)is the story 'Washington andthe cherrytree.Acof George cording to Weems,when he was about six, was givena hatchet.He GeorgeWashington went aroundhis father'sfarm,testingit on all of things,includinga fineyoungcherry manner sumthe damage, tree.His father,discovering "Do you know monedthe boyandsaidsternly, The little cherry tree?" who killedthisbeautiful child was silentfor a momentbut then cried out, "I cannottell a lie;you know I cannottella His fatherat once lie.I cut it with my hatchet." forgot his angerin his delight at the child's truthfulness. {This story hashad an enormouseffect on the American people, having succeededin making GeorgeWashington the sworn enemyof all smallchildren.) 2 After a skirmishin the courseof the Seven Washington wasrepoftedto have Years''War, said,"I heardthe bulletswhistle,and believe in thesound." charming ffi,thereis something heardof this II of England When King George remark,h. said,"He would not sayso had he beenusedto hearmany."
3 During the American Revolution an officer in civilian clothes rode past a group of soldiers busy repairing a small redoubt. Their commander was shouting instructions but making no attempt to help them. Asked *hy, he retorted with great dignity, "Sir, I am a corporal!" The strangerapolo gizedrdismounted,and proceededto help the exhaustedsoldiershimself. W'hen the iob was completed he turned to the

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4 During the bitterly cold winter at Valley went the rounds Forge,Washington con{stantly of his men, encouraginband comforting them. One dry he came acrossPrivate John Brantley drinking some stolen wine with his companions. Already a little drunk, Brantley cheerily invited his commander to "drink some wine with a soldier." Replied Washington, "My boy, you haveno time for drinking wine." And he turned away. "Damn your proud soulr" exclaimed Brantley. "You're above drinking with 'Washington turned back. "Come, I soldiers." will drink with you," he said and took a pull at the jug and handed it back. "Give it to your seryants," said Brantley, gesturing toward Washington's aides. The jug was duly passed around. "Nowr" said Brantley, when he once more had his iug, "I'll be damned if I don't spend the last drop of my heart's blood for
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5 Early in the Revolutionary'War, \Tashington sent one of his officers to requisition horsesfrom the local landowners. Calling at an old country mansion, the officer was received by the elderly mistressof the house. "Madaffi, I have come to claim your horsesin the name of the governmentr" he began. "On whose orders?" demanded the woman sternly. "On the orders of General George Washington, commander in chief of the American armyr" replied the officer. The old lady smiled. "You go back and tell General George \ilTashington that his mother says he cannot have her horsesr" she said. 6 As \U7ashington was sitting at dinner one evening,the heat from the fire behind him becameso intensethat he saidhe had better move farther from the hearth. Someonein the company said jokingly that it was only right and proper for a general to be able to stand fire. "But it doesn't look good if he receives it from behind," replied Washington. 7 During the Constitutional Conventio\ someonesuggested that the sizeof the army be I restricted to five thousand men at any one I

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572 "beingextremely annoyed by inquiries of other gentlemen,staying in the less-adventurous hotel, as to the progress of his 'goutr' he remembered that in the past,whenhisanklehad beenbadlysprained, him a doctorhadordered to hold it underthe pumptwo or threetimesa dry. It struck him thereforethat it might be a kind of super-cure if heheldhisankleunderthe 'Which NiagaraFalls." he did. 4., 4E WATSON, Richard (1737-1815),British clergyman, bishopof Llandaff(1782-1815). He had preuiouslyheld the chairs of chemistry (17 54-71) and diuinity (1771)at Cambridgt Uniuersity.He wrote a famous refutation of Thomas Paine calledApology for the Bible (1796).
1 The landlord of the well-known Cock Inn at tilTindermerein northwest England wish to compliment Dr. Watson, who had a hou nearby. He changed the name of the inn to "The Bishop" and hung out a sign bearing a portrait of the eminent cleric. A rival landlord I acrossthe street , of alesspopular establishment I "The I ne Cockr" LocK, his nls inn lnn sign slgn to thereupon cnangeo tnereupon changed il I and thus attracted a lot of the customersof the { I I former Cock Inn. The landlord of the latter I decided that he must make the identity of his j inn clear to visitors to the town. When Dt.i Watson next passedthrough Windermere, he;l was not at all flattered to see painted under- l, neath his portrait on the inn tigtt the words: i "This is the old Cock." ,

time. \Tashington saw the impracticality of this, but as chairman he was prevented from making a counterproposal. Instead he whispered to a delegatesitting near him that they ought to amend the proposal to provide that "no foreign army should invade the United Statesat any time with more than three thousand troops."

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Pointing at the solitary figure,the American said, "There he goes." The Englishman was "ls that President urprised. Washington?" he his guard?"The Ameri"'Where's exclaimed.
can struck his breast proudly. "Herer" he delared.

9 Gilbert Stuart, who painted a famous portrait of \Tashington in 1,795,remarked afterward to GeneralHenry ("Light-Horse Harry") Lee on the strong passionsthat he could perceive beneath the president's dignified exterior. A few dayslater GeneralLee mentioned to the \Tashingtons that he had seenthe portrait, adding, "stuart says you have a tremendous 'Washington's temper." Mrs. color roseand she said sharply, "Mr. Stuart takes a great deal on himself to make such a remark." General Lee checked her: "But he added that the president 'Washington has wonderful control." said, almost smiling, "He's right."

10 In 1797 the French revolutionist and freethinker Constantin Volney visited the United States and asked \(ashington for a letter of recommendation. Not wishing to offend the Frenchman,but also anxious to avoid controversy over the man's opinions, \Tashington simply wrote: "C. Volney needsno recommendation from Geo. Washington." 4., 48 WATERTON, Charles (L782-1855), British eccentricand naturalist. His ornithological and other studies took him to North and South America, the West Indies, and Madagascar. In 1.805 he inherited Walton Hall, Yorkshire, which he turned into a bird sanctuary. as Edith Sitwell 1 While in the United States, describesit, Waterton sprainedhis ankle, and

4., {6 (1736-1819), Britishengineer. WATT, James of how to improuetheefficiency He discouered that he steamengine the modelof Newcomen's to the contributed was repairing.His discouery deuelopmentof effectiuesteam power. He and the metric coinedthe term "horsepou)er," unit of power is namedafter Ltim.
I According to tradition, the solution to the problem of preventingthe loss of energyin the Newcomen engineoccurred to Watt as he observeda kettle boiling on the fire at his home. His aunt came in and rebuked him for idly fiddling about with the kettle, holding a spoon it down, and so on. She over the spout, pressing suggestedthat he go out and do something useful.
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In First l-ady from Plains, Rosalynn Cartergivesan insightinto someof the lesser-known stories about the White House: "'$7e learnedsome wonderfullv odd thingsaboutthe house that night;Abigail Adamshung the presidential laundryin the EastRoom; ThomasJefferson used the same space for hissecritary, who had to find better quarterswhen the ceiling literally fell in; the portrait of George in the EastRoomis the only \Tashington obiectknown to hav e alwaysbeenin the WhiteHouse, except whenDolleyMadison had it torn from its frameasshefled when the British were comingin 7814; AndrewJackson onceplaced a fourteenhundred-pound in the Cross cheese Hall and invitedthe public in to eat it. They came in droves, eating and treading and the smell crumbsinto the carpets, lingered for weeks. Thomas Jefferson had a pet mockingbirdthat he taughtto peckfood from hislipsandto hop up the stairs after him; the Garfield children rode large, three-wheeled velocipedes while they carriedon pillow fightsin the East Room; and the five children of TheodoreRoosevelt slid down the stairon trays stolen from the pantry, cases the hallon stilts,andwhenoneof stalked hadthemeasles, thechildren hisbrothers took a pony into his second-floor bedroom after riding up in the President's elevator."

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employee; Mr. Smith. He was amazed and overioyed when \Tatterson replied in the affirmative. After the conductor had gone, the young man thanked rU7atterson for savinghim from a difficult situation. The other smiled. "Compose yourself, young man. I don't hrppen to be Colonel \U(Iatterson, but I am riding on his railroad pass."

Ar, {4 WAUGH, Evelyn(1903-66),British nouelist. (1930) Decline and Fall(1928) andVile Bodies established him as a social satirist. After his cont)ersion to RomanCatholicismin 1930reliplayedan increasing part in such gious themes (1945).Later nouels As Brideshead Revisited books includehis uartime trilogy- At Arms (1952),Officers (1955),and and Gentlemen (1951). Unconditional Surrender
I Randolph Churchill, the journalist son of 'Silinston Churchill and not remarkable for the sweetness of his character,went into the hospital to havea lung removed. It was announced in the press that the trouble was not cancer. rilTaugh commented: "A typical triumph of modern science to find the only paft of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."

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the conversation . In a desperate attempt to enlivent{the consul said to'S7augh, "l have a may6f Mount Ararat, which I think

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I All journalists in Watterson's time were issued with special railroad passes, which were nontransferable. Nevertheless, abuse of the systemwas widespread.A young man traveling on the Louisville and Nashville Railway was using the passof a certain Mr. Smith, a correspondent on Watterson's paper. The suspi'$Tattercious conductor took "Smith" to see son, who happened to be on the same train. The impostor drembledasthe conductor asked Watterson if this young man was indeed his

shouldit?" saidWaugh. "Has theArk

found?" 3 In 1935, Waugh was sent to cover the ltalian invasion of Ethiopia. While he was there, his editor heard a rumor that an English nurse had beenkilled in an Italian air raid and cabled: "Send two hundred words upblown nurse." \7augh made exhaustiveenquiries,but was unable to substantiatethe story. He finally cabled back: "Nurse unupblown." 4 \il7augh's commanding officer was impressed by his courage during the battle of Crete in 1941,. On the return journey, the

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and his razorpoised.He readout the signal. \il7avell showedno emotion. He merelysaid: 'The Prime Minister's quite right. This iob wantsa new eyeanda newhand';andwent on shaving." 4., {4 WEBB, Sidney IJames], Baron Passfield (1859-1947),British socialistpolitician and He wAsa founderof theFabianSoeconomist. ciety (1854)and the London Schoolof Eco-t (1.858-L943), (1895). His wife,Beatrice nomics with him on booksthat hauehada, collaborated of socialist lastingimpact on the deuelopment i''' thoughtin Britain. front for theharmonious I Askedto account presented on the importantissues the \il7ebbs that they had explained of the time, Beatrice to vote agreed earlyin their marriedlife always "sidney was to decide alike on great issues. which way we voted. I was to decidewhich werethe greatissues." As' e8 US lawyer WEBSTER, Daniel (1,782-1852), Born into a poor New Hampand statesman. shire farming family, Daniel Webstershowed powersfrom an signsof his great intellectual a law!r, his remarkearlyage.He first became able skill as an orator quickly winning him a politics position.He thenentered distinguished and became known for his staunchdefense of the Constitution. He rAn unsuccessfully fo, president, but acbieued lastingfamewith some His later yearsweredarkened of his speeches. by political disappointments, family sorrows, and financialsetbacks. I Temporarilyabsentfrom home, Captain \Tebsterleft Daniel and his brother Ezekiel instructions as to the work they with specific wereto do that d"y. On hisreturnhefoundthe hissons andquestioned taskstill unperformed, "'Whathaveyou severely about their idleness. he asked. beendoing,Ezekiel?" "Nothing, sir." "'Well,Daniel,what haveyou beendoing?" "HelpingZeke,sir." 2 As a boy, DanielWebsterworked in his I fields. father's Oned^yrtoldto do the mowing,i badiob of it; sometimes he madea thoroughly \ it I his scythe struckthe groundand sometimes

uwriter was askedfor his impressionof the battle, his first experienceof military action. "Like ': German ope tar" he replied, "too long and too loud." 5 (JosephEpstein tells this story about Evelyn Waugh:) "Once, when he had behavedwith particular rudenessto a young French intellectual at a dinner pafty in Paris at the home of Nancy Mitford, Miss Mitford, angry at his social brutality, asked him how he could behave so meanlyand yet considerhimselfa believingand 'You haveno idea,'Waugh practicingCatholic. 'how much nastierI would be if I was returned, not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being."' 6 (Epsteinalso reports this incident:) "Finally, from the thesaurus of Wavian anecdotes, Christopher Sykes,in his biography, reports visiting \7augh in the hospital, where he found him grumbling in great pain in the aftermath of an operation for piles. Attempting to solace his friend, Sykes remarked that he assumedthe ope.ration,painful though it might seemnow, was m any casenecessary, 'the operation was "'Nor' Waugh replied, but might conceivablyhave benot necessary, come so later on.' 'Then why did "'Not necess aryl' said Sykes. you have it done?' " 'Perfectionism."' Ar, 48 Archibald Percival, 1st Earl WAVELL, (1883-1950), British field marshal; uiceroy of India (1943-47). In World War II he defeated the ltalians in Africa, but was less successful againstRommel. Sent to southeastAsia, he tried utith inadequate forces to stem the] apanesetide and u)as superseded. | (One of the greatest disappointments of 'j.941, \il7avell'slife came at the end of June when he was replacedby Claude Auchinleck as commanderin the Middle Easternbattle zone.) "A signal from the Prime Minister [ChurchillJ telling him that Auchinleck and he were to changeplaceshad arrived in the small hours of the morning, and been taken to GeneralArthur had at once dressed and gone Smith, who 'Wavell's house on Gezira. He found round to him shaving,with his face covered with lather

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swung too high and missed the grassentirely. He complained to his father that the scythewas not hung right. Various attempts were made to At last his hang it better, but with no success. father told him that he might hang it to suit himself, whereupon he hung it on a tree and said, "There, that's just right."

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3 As a lad at school Webster committed for which he wascalledup to somepeccadillo deskto havethe palmof his right the teacher's hand caned.Aware that his handswere very dirty, he madean effort to rub off someof the dirt ashe walkedup to the desk.Nevertheless, grimy. the hand he held out was exceedingly "Daniel,if you lookedat it sternly. The teacher can find anotherhand as dirty as that in this I'll let you off." Out from behind schoolroom, the boy'sbackcamethe left hand."Here it is, had to The teacher sir," saidyoungWebster. abideby his offer. not to atyoung\ilUebster 4 A friend advised which was tempt to enterthe legalprofession, alreidy overcrowdedand posed formidable to a man without eithermoneyor obstacles family connectionsto help him. "There's

the client, who asked if this was Daniel \febster, son of old Ebenezerof Salisbury.Receiving an affirmative reply, he cried, "What! That little black stable-boy who once brought me some horses!Then I think we might aswell give up the case." It was too late to engageanother associatecounsel, and the case went ahead. The dejectedclient satin court, not listeningto Then he found that his attenthe proceedings. tion was gradually arrested by the associate counsel'svoice. He was held spellbound until The lawyer turned to his the end of the speech. client and asked, "'What do you think of him now?" "Think! Why, I think he is an angel sent down from Heaven to saveme from ruin, and my wife and children from misery!" 7 The lawyerJeremiahMason was Webster's ; d colleagueand friend in Portsmouth. The two were often opposed in important cases,and performed impressively against each other in j ' loutt. One d^i when a new casewas called,the clerk of the court asked who was counsel on i i eachside."Which sideareyou on in this case?" Mason asked Webster. "I don't knowr" said I { lUfebster. "Take your choice."

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5 Daniel Webster met Grace Fletcher, who was to become his first wife, when he was a young lawyer at Portsmouth. He was allowed to call on her, and on one of his visits was making himself useful by holding skeinsof silk thread for her. Suddenlyhe stopped and said, "Grace, we have been engaged in untying knots; let us seeif we can tie a knot which will not untie for alifetime." Then Webster took a piece of tape and began to tie a complicated knot in it, which he gaveto her to completethis they regardedas the ceremony of their engagement. . I t {Grace died in L828 and Webster remar| | ried two yearslater. After his death, howI I ever, in the little box that he had marked I | "Ptecious Documents," were found the I I letters of his early courtship with Grace I J and this knot, never untied.) 6 At the beginning of his legal career,Daniel \il7ebster was engagedas associatecounsel by a lawyer acting for a gentleman from Grafton County. The lawyer made known his choice to

8 (\flebster had an immenselyimpressive in court,wherehismagnifpresence, especially eyes icent voice and his dark, beetle-browed Van Wyck Brooks were of great advantage. recounts the story of how Daniel \Ufebster out of court.) lookeda witness "He had set his greateyeson the man and him throughandthrough;then,asthe searched causewent otr, and this fellow's perjury was lookedroundagain not yet calledfor, Webster to seeif he was readyfor the inquisition.The witnessfelt for his hat and edgedtoward the lookedon him,and door.A third time\il(ebster his could sit no longer.He seized the witness
chance and fled from the court and was no where to be found." 9 A Nantucket gentlemanstopped a friend in the street and told him, "I am in trouble and wish your advice." "What's the matter?" "Oh, I'm in a lawsuit, and \0febsteris against me. til7hatshall I do?" "My advice is that your only chance of is to send to Smyrnaand import a young escape earthquake."

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2 In 1959, when Fidel Castro's guerrilla troops were battling Fulgencio Batista's soldiers in Cuba, Weissmuller,part of a celebrity golf tournament, was on his way to the golf coursewith some friends and two bodyguards. Suddenlytheir car was surroundedby ^band of guerrillaswho disarmedthe guardsand pointed their rifles at Weissmuller and his party. \7hat to do? Weissmullerdrew himself up to his full height, beat his chest, and let out the famous yell. The guerrillaswere stunnedfor a moment. Then: "T arzanlT arzan!Bienuenidol Welcome to Cuba!" An international incident had been averted.Indeed,it turned into an autographing party, followed by triumphal procession to the golf course. " Ao, 48 WEIZMANN, Chaim (I874-I9 52),] ewish statesman;first president of Israel (L949-52). Weizmann, trained as a cbemist, in 1915 discouered a manufacturing process for the production of acetone. Because he was already prominent in the Zionist mouement,his discot)ery gauehim status in his dealingswith tbe British gouernment that resultedin the Balfour DecIaration (1917). I As a chemist at Manchester University, \Teizmann came into the constituency of the Conseruativepolitician Arthur Balfour. There was a proposal at that time to establishaJewish "homeland" in Uganda, a suggestion hotly countered by the Zionists. A mediator ab ranged for Weizmann to meet Balfour to put him straight on the unacceptability of Uganda and to explain the emotional and spiritual attraction of Palestine. Trying to get this idea 'Just acrossto Balfour, Weizmann said, suppose, Mr. Balfour, I were to offer you Paris insteadof London; would you accept it?" Balfour, off guard, said somewhat crassly, "But, Dr. lilTeizmann, we already haueLondon." Replied Weizmann: "But we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh."

{Compare SydneySmith's description of lU7ebster: "A steam enginein trousers.") 10 Daniel \Tebster attended a particularly illustrious dinner party. After the ladies had retired, the host produced a bottle of Madeira for the gentlemen.This wine, he said,had been bottled by his grandfather more than seventy yearsbefore. One of the guestsdid somecalculations on the back of a letter and remarked that if the wine was worth twenty-five cents when bottled, its presentvalueat current interest would reacha hundred dollars. At that moment a seryantannounced that the carriagehad arrived to take Mr. \Tebster to a ball given in his honor. Some of the guestsescorted WebAs one of them was folding ster to his carriage. up the carriagestep after he had climbed in, he found \Tebster's foot in the wxy, and asked whether he wished to alight. "Yesr" said \febster quicklyr"l want to go back and help our mathematical friend stop the interest on that damned expensivebottle of wine." Ar' 48 WEBSTER, Noah (1758-1.843), US lexicographer. His American Dictionary of the English Language(1828) was the forerunner of a great p rocession of American di ctionaries bearingth e name Webster in their titles. I Going unexpectedlyinto the parlor of their house one d^y, Mrs. Webster discoveredher husband embracing their maid. "Noah, I am surprised!" she exclaimed. Webster released the maid and reassumedhis professional dignity. "No, my dearr" he corrected his wife, "it is I who am surprised; you are merely astonished." {The authenticity of this old chestnut is doubtful.) At, 4t WEISSMULLER, Johnny (1904-84), US sutimmer. He ,Don firt Olympic gold medals (1924, 1928)and w*s the first man to swim 100 meters in under a minute (1922). He later becameA successful fil* actor, noted especiallyfo, his characterization of Tarzan.

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on whom the principal character is based. As an Actor, he appeared in many mouies, perhaps most notably inThe Third Man (1949). I Film director Vincent Korda and his son who Michael once had to chaseOrson \il7elles, was running from contract obligations, across Europe. Landing in Venice, Naples,Capri, and Nice, they finally caught up with him in Cagnes-sur-Merand hoisted him off to a private airplane. Michael and Welles shared the back seatswith a giant basket of fruit, which Vincent had carefully selectedin Nice, wedged between them. Michael eventually fell asleep. \7hen he awoke, he eyed the basket- and realized that Welles had systematically taken a single bite out of each piece of fruit. Having thus effectively destroyed Vincent's fruit, Welles now slept soundly, his immaculate appearancemarred only by r few spots of juice on his shirt front.

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prime minister. Although a supporterof the bill (1829),he Roman Catholicemancipation parliamentary reformand waseuentuopposed ally forcedto resign(1830). in which \il7e1the vessel I On a seavo yage ] a violent' lington was travelingencountered of sinkin imminentdanger stormandseemed cabinat came to Wellington's ing.The captain "lt will soonbeall overwith us." duskandsaid, "Very aboutto go to bed,replied, Wellington, well, then I shallnot take off my boots." was in 2 When the young Arthur \U(ellesley India,hewasin charge afterthe of negotiations with an emissary of an Indian battleof Assaye rulerwho wasanxious to know whatterritories to his master would be ceded asa resultof the and treaty. Having tried variousapproaches found that the general wasnot to be drawnon the subject, the Indianofferedhim fivelacsof rupees(about f50,000) for the information. "Can you keep a secret?"askecilil7ellesl.y. "Yes,indeed," "So can saidthe Indianeagerly. I," saidWellesl.y.
3 Wellington's soldiersnicknamed him "Old , , Nosey" on account of his prominent nosd. \ Riding up one d.y during 6is Spanish cam- ' paigns"toinrpectan .*porei positi,cn,\Telling-, , ton, about to be challenged,forgot the coun-" tersign. The sentry, an lrishman, nonethelessi brought his musket to the salute and said,.i "God blessyour crooked nose; I would rather : seeit than ten thousand men!" {This remark is quoted by many of the officers who seroedunder \Tellington in i the Peninsular'$Var.) 4 During the Peninsular War a detachmentof i energetic but inexperienced young officers ar'Wel-, rived to strengthen Wellington's forces. lington obsewed, "l don't know what effecd they will have upon the enemy, but by God,; ' they frighten me." , 5 Although the cavalry regiments rended to get more of the limelight,'Wellington was fully aware of the crucial importance of the infantry. A few weeks before the battle of \Taterloo an Englishman encountered the duke in a square in Brusselsand asked if he thought he could defeat Napoleon. Wellington pointed to a soldier from one of the infantry regiments, who

2 One Saturday duringthe productionof his film The Lady from Shanghai,Ylelles decided repainting for the folthat a certainsetneeded lowing Monday'sfilming.Havingbeentold by production manager Jack Fier that this was quite impossible, Wellesgathered togeth er a group of friends.They broke into the paint lateon Saturday evening, department repainted andleft a hugesignoverthe the setthemselves, to the studio:"THE ONLY THING entrance \TE HAVE TO FEAR IS FIER HIMSELF.'' When the officialsetpainters arrivedfor work on Monday,they immediately calleda strike. Fier was obligedto pay a hefty sum to each memberof the crew as compensation for the work done by nonunion labor. He deducted '$(/elles's fee and had a new the money from bannerpainted"ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS \7ELLES.'' \07hereupon the two men, bitter enemies up to that point, calleda truce and greatfriends. ultimatelybecame A$ '.8 WELLINGTON, Arthur Welleslry, lst Duke of (1769-1852), Britishgeneral and stAtesman, nicknamed "the lron Duke." After seruice in India, Wellesley led the Britisb campaign againstNapoleonin Spainand Portugal-the Peninsular War (1508-14).For this achieuementhewasmadea duke.He and thePrussian general Blticher finally defeatedNapoleon at 'Waterloo (1815). In 1828 he becameTory

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11 \Ufhen Sir John Steell was executing the colossalequestrianstatue of lilTellingtonto be placed in Edinburgh, he was troubled by the fact that his sitter did not look particularly warlike. All his efforts to get a more animated expression,by urging the duke to recall the glorious victories of the Peninsularcampaigns and Waterloo, failed to produce their effect.At last in desperationhe suggested that he should model the duke ashe was on the morning of the "as you galloped about Battle of Salamanca, the field inspiring your troops to deeds of valor." The duke snorted. "lf you really want to model me as I was on the morning of Salamanca, you must show me crawling along a ditch on my stomach,holding a telescope." 12 Wellington once came upon a little boy sitting at the side of the road, crying as if his heart would break. "Come now, that's no way for a young gentleman to behave.What's the matter?" he asked."l haveto go away to school tomorrowr" sobbed the child, "and I'm worried about my pet toad. There'sno one elseto care for it and I shan't know how it is." The him, promising to attend to the duke reassured matter personally. After the boy had been at school for little more than a week, he received the following letter: "Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington and presentshis compliments to Master has the pleasureto inform him that his toad is well," 13 Lord Douro, the duke's eldest son, was A lady extraordinarily like him in appearance. once asked the duke if the numerous caricatures of him that had been published had ever annoyedhim. "Not a bit, not a bit," saidWellington, then added after a pause, "There is only one caricature that has ever caused me - Douro." annoyance 14 Sparrowsinvaded the newly built Crystal Palace and became trapped under the glass roof, with predictably messyresultsfor the exhibits and visitors. Queen Victoria sought the views of her eldest statesmanon how to deal with the problem. "sparrowhawks, ma'amr" was Wellington's laconic advice. 15 The French actressMlle George boasted that she had slept with both Napoleon and

was doing some off-duty sightseeing in the town. "lt all dependsupon that article therer" he said. "Give me enough of it, and I am sure." 6 At one point during the battle of Waterloo an officer commanding a gun battery sent a messageto Wellington saying that he could clearly discern Napoleon among the enemy troops, his guns were in position, and he requestedpermissionto fire. Wellington forbade him. "lt is not the business of generals to shoot one another." 7 At Waterloo, the Marquess of Anglesey, who was in command of the British, Hanoverian, and Belgian horse, was standing by the Duke of \$Tellingtonwhen a shot hit his right knee. "By God, sir,'ohe remarked to Wellington, "l have lost my leg." "By God, I believeyou have," replied Wellington laconically. {The leg had to be amputated,and it was buried, with an obelisk erected over its last resting place.) 8 The hero of Waterloo was sitting in his office one dry when the door flew open and a man rushed in, crying, "l must kill you!" \7ellington did not raise his head from his papers. He merely said, "Does it have to be tod ayl" The intruder looked confused. "'Well, they didn't tell me o . but soon, surelyr" he replied. "Good," said Wellington briskly. "A little later on then, I'm busy at the moment." The man withdrew and was promptly seizedby the police, who had been informed that there was an escapedlunatic on the rampage. pelled to srt tmgt ngton was co ml \t Vi enna Velli EII] At rov ve: n'sBattleof na tceof Beeth rmal mce rroul aperforI ughz thr t,intr ',gton 7 Victo Afterward 1 la W illin5 ell ton's viictor or, oria (or, I ). ry). 'a s iUSic had been ke, :d th hi i m if the MU tsker sked envoy Rt tuss ;ia iiane ussia ,al rid r tG rea rei ng."B y ]o, od, nor" sai I th thinl hi like t:he hing e ereal nyt ryrhi an un hat , r l'd have ru had t been like t:ha h re edu < th, iu luke. "If ii t had ym yself." 1v wat vay 10 When some French officers, cut to the heart at France'sdefeat, turned their backs on Wellington at Vienna, an onlooker spoke sympathetically to the snubbed duke. Wellington smiled. "I have seen their backs before, madamr" he said.

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\Tellington. Asked in later life who was the better lover, she replied, " Ah, monsieur, le duc 6tait de beaucouple plus fort" (Ah, sir, the duke was by far the more vigorous). 16 In his later years$Tellington resentedany kind of attention that implied he was decrepit. One evening, as lilfellington was waiting to crossPiccadilly to reach his house,a gentleman nearly as old forcibly took the Duke's arm and made a considerable parade of escorting him across the busy thoroughfare. "I thank you, sir," said\Tellington when he reachedhis door. The other claspedhis hand and broke into effusive speech,concluding with, "I never dared to hope that I might seethe d^y when I might to the greatest render the slightest assistance man that ever lived." \Tellington surveyedhim serenely."Don't be a damn fool, sirr" he said, and walked into his house. A$ ..8 WELLS, H[erbert] G[eorge] (1866-1946), British nouelist. His nouels foll into two main categories: imaginatiue romnnces or futuristic fantasies, such as The War of the Worlds (1895); and nouelsof social comedy or bumor, such as The History of Mr. Polly (1910). His social commentaries and popularizations of knowledgt were important in their time. I On leaving a Cambridge pafty, \fells accidentally picked up a hat that did not belong to him. Discoveringhis mistake,he decidednot to return the headgear to its rightful owner, whose label was inside the brim. The hat fit \fells comfortably; furthermore, he had grown to like it. So he wrote to the erstwhileowner: "I stole your hat; I like your hat; I shall keep your hat. Whenever I look inside it I shall think of you and your excellent sherry and of the town of Cambridge.I take off your hat to you." 2 At a dinner one evening H. G. Wells expounded his theory that mankind had failed. The dinosaur had failed becausehe had concentrated upon size.Homo sapienshad failed had not developedlhe right type of he because 'S7ells claimed, we will first destroy brain. So, and reveft then die out as a species, ourselves, itr" he to mud and slime."And we shalldeseroe added.One of the guestsobjected that surelyit wouldn't be as bad as that. "One thousand

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a sobering 3 (C. P. Snowrecounts conv.rt"{ tion with H. G. \fells that took placewell afterl midnight in a hotel lounge,where they were[ glasses sittingunderthe pottedpalms, of whis-) k.y by their chairs. Snow comments that I \ilfells's burstsof intimacytendedto be lugu-| ott'?I.H'l*ically for [\rells] the converr"rior,I got longerand longer.I tailed off. The silences Without any introduction,he broke into the I He said,'Ever I quiet.It wasa simplequestion. I reflected. I said, I Snow?' thought of suicide, 'Yes,H. G., I have.' I. But I have He replied,'So He was then sev-fl not till I was past seventy.' drank some more whisky and enty-two. \U7e \ at the palms." looked sombrely Ar, 4E of WERFEL, Alma Mahler(1879-1964),wife Mahler,thenarchitect Walter oser Gus,tau comp Gropius,and finolb writer Franz Werfel.The louer of many Central Europeanwriters and painters,shewAsregarded as the femmefatale of turn-of-th e-centuryV iennA. I The German playwright Gerhart Hauptmannwasa greatadrnirerof Alma's,although he had neverbeenher lover. He said to her, "Alma, in anotherlife we two must be lovers. May I make my reservationnow?" Frau Hauptmann was standing close enough to remark."Oh, darlingr" her husband's overhear shesaid,"I am sureAlma will be bookedup there,too,"
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WESLEY, John (L703-91),British religious leader.Preachingan appealingmessage of repentance and faith, he and his brotherCharles much hostility from the Anglicnn encountered hired ruffians to hierarchy,which sometimes meetings. Thebrotbers disrupttheWesleys' had no wish to splitwith theAnglicanChurch,and the Wes[eyin Methodist Church taas formed only after their deaths. I At a stormy meetinga ruffian raisedhis I handto strikeJohnrU7esley on the head,but as he broughtit down he checked his blow and murmured,"'What soft hair he has!"

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3 In 1,945 aNazi death list was discov.r.f,""i that included the namesof RebeccaWest and.'. I Nol Coward. When Rebecca\ilfest heard of this, sheimmediatelywired Coward: "My dear -the people we should have been seen dead with." As, e8 WESTINGHOUSE, George (L846-I9I4), US inuentor and manufacturer. I In 1872 \07estinghouse took out his first patent for an automatic air brake that would functio n far more quickly and safely than the clumsy hand brakes then in use. The railroad companies, however,were deeplysuspicious of the invention. When he wrote to Cornelius Vanderbilt, presidentof the New York Central Railroad,pointing out the advantages of the air brake, Vanderbilt returned the letter with the words "l have no time to waste on foolsr" scrawled on the bottom. Alexander J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad, next approached,saw possibilitiesin '$Testinghouse the new brake, and gave money to continue developinghis invention. The tests were successful. News of them reached Vanderbilt. He wrote \ilTestinghouse a letter inviting him to come and see him. Back came the letter, endorsed "I have no time to waste on fools. George'Westinghouse." Ar, 48 WHARTON, Edith Newbold (1862-1937), US writer; noted for Ethan Frome (L911) and The Age of Innocence (1920), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. 'S7harton I At the age of eleven, Edith artempted her first novel. It began:" 'Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Brown?' said Mrs. Tompkins. 'lf only I had known you were going ro call, I should havetidied up the drawing room.' " Her mother's solecomment, on perusingthis promising effort, was a gelid "Drawing rooms are always tidy." Ar, 4t WHEATCROFT, Harry (1898- ), British rosespecialist.He began growing roses in 1.919, on A singleacre of land. By the mid-1970s his company wAs producing ouer one and a half million roses each yeAr. He has introduced

2 Preaching one d^y, Wesley noticed that some of his congregation were fast asleep. "Fire! Fire!" he suddenly cried. The sleepers awoke with a start and leaped to their feet. "'Where?" they asked, looking anxiously "for around them. "In hellr" replied til(Iesley, those who sleep under the preaching of the word.tt 6r, ..6 WEST, Mae (L892-1980), US mouie star and actress;the sex symbol of the 1930s.Her bestknown films were She Done Him Wrong (1933),Klondyke Annie (1936),and My Little Chickadee(1939). | "Goodness, Maer" said a friend, on greeting her, "where did you get those beautiful pearls?" "Never mindr" saidMae West, "but you can take it from me that goodnesshad nothing to do with it." {Mae'West used this riposte,which may well have been apocryphal,as the title of one volume of her autobiography,Goodness Has Nothing to Do with It, published in 1959.) Aro .4 WEST, Dame Rebecca (1892-1983), British nouelist and political iournalist. Among her books are Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1942), The Meaning of Treason (1949), and A Train of Powder (1955), the laner about the Nuremberg trials. I On a visit to New York RebeccaWesr encountered a well-known society figure and his young friend. The two men, despitethe difference in their agesand heights, wore identical outfits - suits, shirts, cravats, and even hairstyleswere all the same.Surveyingthem, Miss West remarked, "They look like a nest of tables." 2 Someone at a party remarked of Cecil Chesterton (brother of GKC) that although he had a "dinry" complexion he was in fact very clean. The speakerwent on to say that when Cecil bathed at Le Touquet, "he came out of the water just asgray-blueaswhen he went in." "But did you look at Rebecca'West interposed, the Channel?"

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many commercial uarieties of roses and has written seueral books on the subiect of rosegrowing. I Wheatcroft was known for his flamboyant dress. One afternooo, he arrived at a flower show in his familiar brightly colored attire. Instead of the usual rosebud in his buttonhole, however, he sported a magnificent carnation. "What's this, Harry?" commented a friend. "No rose today?" "Shh," whispered Wheatcroft. "I'm incognito!" A" "t6 WHEELER, Joseph (1835-L906), US aftny officer and politician. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he was commissioned maior general. He wAs a member of the US in the late nineteenth House of Representatiues century. | \Theeler had beena Confederategeneralin he the Civil'War. In the Spanish-American'$Var commandedsix regimentsin the attack on Santiago. On the road to the city his.men suffered from the superior fire power senouscasualties at a certainpoint of the enemy. Nevertheless, the Spanishabandoned their entrenchments. General Wheeler, directly behind his men, inspired them with his imperishableand unreconstructed cryr"'We'vegot the damn Yankees on the run!" Ar, 48 WHEWELL, William (1794-1866), British scientist. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1841 and won a considerable philosophical reputation with his History of (1 837). the Inductive Sciences I During the Victorian era the River Cam in Cambridgewas still usedasthe town sewer.On a visit to CambridgeQueen Victoria pausedon one of the bridges,surrounded by collegedignitaries.Sheremarkedon the quantity of paper she could see in the stream. "All that paper, ma'amr" said \ilfhewell, "carries notices to inform visitors that the river is unfit for bathing." 2 \fhewell, well read in many subjects,could speakwith authority on any topic of conversation that arose in the Trinity Senior Common

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Room, to the infuriation of some of his colleagues.Gathering up a number of reference books, including an old encyclopedia,they selected the obscure subject of Chinesemusical for sevinstrumentsand studied it assiduously eral days. During the after-dinner conversation the next Sunday, they introduced the topic. Those who knew nothing of the conspiracy were astounded at the unexpected erudition of their colleagues; even l7hewell remained silent for a while. Then, turning to one of the conspirators,he remarked,"l gatheryou have been reading the encyclopedia article on Chinese musical instruments I wrote some years back." Ar, ..6 WHISTLER, JamesAbbott McNeill (18341903), US painter who liued most of his life in and opinionCantankerous London after 1.860. ated, he made many enemiesin the art world see his The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890).

1 Duringa WestPoint examination \Thistler his examiners scandalized by not knowingthe Vista."'What!"said dateof the battleof Buena you went out to dinner oneof them,"suppose got talkingabout the Mexiand the company canWar, and you, a West Point man,did not know the dateof this battle.What would you do?"Politely but decisively \Thistlerreplied, "I should refuseto associate with peoplewho talkedof suchthingsat dinner."

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4 An American millionaire self-made visited Paris Whistler's studio,intending to buy some picturesfor his palatial house. He glanced aroundthe studiowith its clutter of canvases and said,"How muchfor the lot?"

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n Some blank canvasesthat rilThistlerhad ordered had been lost in the mail. Asked whether the canvases were of any great value, Whistler replied, "Nor It, not yet." 'l 12 "A woman said to lU7histler, just came up from the country this morning along the Thames, and there was an exquisite hazein the atmosphere which reminded me so much of some of your little things. It was really a perfect seriesof t$Thistlers.' 'Yes, " madam,' respondedWhistler gravely, 'Nature is creepingup."' 13 A friend of rVhistler'scameup to him in a London street as the aftist was talking to a particularly grimy urchin selling newspapers. Whistler asked the lad how long he had been doing the work. "Three years,sir." "How old are you?" "Seven,sir." "Oh, come, you must be older than that." "No, I aintt, sir." rUThistler turned to his friend. "l don't think he could get that dirty in sevenyears.Do you?" 14 A supposedconversationbetweenWhistler and Oscar \7ilde having been published in Punch, r$(/ilde sent Whistler the following telegram: "Punch too ridiculous. \il(/henyou and I are together we never talk about anything except ourselves." Back came the reply from \ilThistler:"No, tro, Oscar, you forget. \7hen you and I are together \rye never talk about anything except me." 15 rUfhistlerwas once printing etchings with the painter Walter Sickert. During the course of their work, Sickert clumsily dropped one of the copper plates. "How like you!" said rWhistler derisively. A few minutes later, however, the sameaccident befell \Thistler himself. "How unlike me!" he exclaimed. 16 \ilThistler disliked Joseph Turner's work and made no secret of his opinion. Someone once asked him if he would give advice as to wheth er a certain picture was a genuineTurner or an imitation. "That is a fine distinctionr" 'S7histler. said

"Four million," saidWhistler. "What!" prices." "My posthumous 5 Whistler,priding himselfon his fluencyin French, insisted on doingtheordering in a fashionableParisrestaurant. His companiontried to intelvene and wastold, "I am quite capable of orderinga mealin France without your as"Of course sistance." you ater"saidhis friend placatingly, "but I iust distinctly heard you ordera flight of steps." for escalope?} {Did he useescalier commissioned to painta 6 Whistlerhadbeen nudeportrait of French actress Cleode life-size M6rode. With her mother sitting nearbyas Mlle de Mrodedrapedherselfon chaperone, ll t1 the couch, wearing nothing but a bandeau il \Thistlerwasnot totallysatisI aroundherhead. fied with the effect. He steppedforward to which completelycovreadiustthe bandeau, ears.Her mother instantly ered the actress's roseto her feet."Oh, tro, tro, Do,monsieur!" ears arefor her husshecried."My daughter's band."

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presidency of theRoyalSocie-ty 17 Whistlerns In 1888 he of BritishArtistswas short-lived. after his autocraticwayshad caused resigned To him to quarrelwith most of the members. "It is very his followershe saidof this debacle, simple. The artists retired. The British remained.t' the \7attsadded 18 PoetandcriticTheodore to his name Dunton, his mother'ssurname' own in !895. Whistler,the deadlyfoe of all zedthe eventwith a signali socialpretension, three-word note to his erstwhile friend: "Theodore,Watts Dunton?" Au e6 US WHITE, Andrew Dickson(1832-19L8), scholarand uniuersityadministrator.In 1855 of CornellUnihewasappointed first president uersity. \fhite excellence, I A sticklerfor academic permission to Cornell's footballsqua{ refused against Michigan:"I will not to travelto a game permit thirty mento travelfour hundredmiles to agitatea bagof wind." Ar, ..8 ediWHITE, William Allen (1S5S-L944),US tor and iournalist.

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ideasabout thingsr"I "Why, I should imagine t \Thiteheadreplied. 2 In 1933JamesBryant Conant, who had try, was made his career in organic chemis exof Harvard.Whitehead president elected that a chemisthad beenchopressed surprise remindedhim sen for this post. A colleague from W. Eliot (president that the greatCharles Said had alsobegunasa chemist. 1,869-1,909) "Ah, but he wasa bad chemist." \Thitehead, A" ..'8 lan], lst WHITELAW, WILIAM [Stephen Whitelawof Penrith(1918- ),BritViscount politiciAn, chairman of the ish Conseruatiue party (197 4-7 5). Consentatiue I At a receptionat the AmericanEmbassy, aboutoneof chatting Whitelawfound himself golf, to a manwhoseface hisfa"oritepastimes, vaguelyfamiliar. Sometimelater, he seemed a friend,"Do tell me,who is that Ameriasked to have canI wastalkingto?He doesn'tappear much sense of humor." "Bob Hoper" wasthe reply. Al, -.6 poet. He is WHITMAN, Walt (1819-92),US of Grass(1855),freebest known for Leaves poemsthat express his democraticidealt)erse loueof life. ism and passionate

I "William Allen \fhite once said that his to cometo him from h"ppy quipsjust seemed This one soundslike it; he wasat the heaven. poetry was by rU7hitman's I The stir caused Party,and of the Democratic 1928convention people hailedhim asa prophet suchthat some was practicallyforced to attend a dinner for him Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, who was anA1o. t and othersabused asa monsterof deprav\Thitman waswalkingpastthe ity. One day, as TheloneRepubli:"*l for the nomination. aspirant rU7hite pointed he House, was out to President \7hite hesitated, then said,$' Mr. present, can 'I'd betternot. I don't want God to kno- l'-/3/ he looks like a man" was the Lincoln. "'S(/'ell, president's comment. Aro '.6 Ar, '.8
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(c. 1850-c. L920),US WHITNEY, Stephen businessmAn and cousin of the inuentor Eli Whitney.A highlysuccessful in cotspeculator ton and real estate,he left a fortune of fifteen million dollars. I On hearing Whitney's the newsof Stephen death, the diarist GeorgeTempleton Strong commented that he had neverusedany of his moneyfor the benefitof eitherhimselfor anyone else."His last act was characteristic and

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2 In 1882 \filde went on a lecturetour of the United States.A New York customs official askedif he had anything to declare."No. I have nothing to declare)'-til(lilde paused-66s>rgspg my genius." 3 "'sTonderful man, Columbus!" exclaimed an American eagerto strike up a conversation with \filde. "Why?" asked\7ilde. "He discovered America," replied the other. tilTilde shook his head: "Oh tro, it had often beendiscovered before, but it had always been hushed up." Compare Mtro ZnooNG 1.. 4 Frank Harris, then editor of the Saturday Reuiew, gave a dinner at the Cafe Royal to which some of London's most brilliant wits were invited. Harris dominated the conversation, ignoring all hints to quiet down. Oscar \filde grew more and more restlessas Harris told the company about all the great housesat which he had beena guest.Eventuallyhe broke in with "Dear Frank, we believeyou; you have dined in every house in London- once." {Sir \Tilliam Rothenstein, another guest . at that dinner, recallsthis as the sole oc- I casion on which he heard Oscar Wild.; say an unkind thing. In another versionI the speakeris rilThistler and the once-only diner, Wilde himself.) 5 lil(rildewas asked his opinion of a play that had been generally accounted a fiasco. "The play was a great successr" he replied, "but the audiencewas a disaster." 6 \filde and \Thistler frequently exchanged insults in a feud that owed more to both parties' addiction to the limelight than to any genuine rancor. "l wish I had saidthat!" exclaimed Wilde after a particularly scintillating remark from \Thistler. "You will, Oscar, you willr" said \Thistler.

fitting," Strongobserved. "He locked up his checkbook and died." 4., ..6 WIENIAWSKI, Henri (1835-80), Polish uiolinist and composer. He wrotea numberof concertosand studiesfor the uiolin. I Wieniawskionce played to a half-empty auditorium in Bostorl. Despite thepoorattendhewasurgedto returnandperformthere ance, "Oh, ilo," repliedthe violinist."l'll get again. out of the habit of playing in public." Ar' 48 (?1682-L725), WI LD, Jonathan English criminal. In debtors'prison he made the acquaintance of a number of thienes. On his release heset up a complexsystemfor the disposalof stolen goods and nmsterminded numerous robberies, gangsof thieuesand ex-conusing organized uicts. He was finally arrestedfo, theft and hanged at Tyblrn. | '$fild remaineda criminal literally to his death.As he stepped up to the gallows at Tyroguedeftlypickedthe burn, the unrepentant pocketof thepriestadministering thelastrites. He diedwavinghistrophy,a corkscrew, triumphantlyat the crowd below. Ar, 48 WILDE, Oscar(1"854-1900), British aesthete, writer, and wit. He wrotea numberof brilliant including Lady \Tindermere'sFan comedies, (1892)and The Importance of BeingEarnest (1595), ds wellas poetryand a nouel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).His affair with Lord Alfted Douglasresultedin a sensational prison in 1895, endingin a two-year courtcase sentence fo, Wilde. From 1897 he liued in underan assumed name. France I In thenineteenth-century Oxford examinations therewasa compulsory divinitysectiotr, and candidateswere required to translate of the New Tesaloudfrom the Greekversion Wilde,assigned a passage dealing with tament. began to translate fluentlyandacthe Passion, The examiners, satisfied, told him he curately. could stop. Ignoringthem, he continuedto Eventually theysucceeded in halting translate. "I want him."Oh, do let mego orr" t$(lilde said. to seehow it ends."

feud, ) 7 In the course of theirwell-publicized rU7histler accused'$7ilde of plagiarizinghis t "As for borrowing t ideas on art. Wilde replied: ideas about art,the only thor- f Mr. tilThistler's I haveeverheardhim e*- I oughlyoriginalideas to hisown superiority press have hadreference f; f ." fi greater thanhimsel overpainters asa painter
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likely candidates cameup frequently.Not included was that of the prolific poetasterSir LewisMorris. "It's a complete conspiracy of silenceagainstffir" Morris complainedto OscarWilde. "What oughtI to do, Oscar?" 'Join it," said\7ilde. 9 Talking to an admirerof Dickens,Wilde moved his heareralmost to tearsby the elofor the master's quence of his enthusiasm powers. And then Wilde concluded,"One would haveto havea heartof stoneto readthe deathof Little Nell without laughing." 10 After playingfor some time the role of Lord Illingworth in rilfilile'splay A Womanof No lmportance, Beerbohm Tree showedsigns of unconsciously adopting the character's in real life. 'V7ilde mannerisms was delighted with this phenomenon. "Ah, everyd"y dear Herbert becomes deplusenplusOscaris6," he "It is a wonderfulcase declared. of natureimitating art."
tUilhenasked to make certain changesin n one of his plays,Wilde protested: "Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?" 12 Wilde was staying with friends at a country house, where his eccentric behavior and manner of dressstartled his fellow guests.One morning he came down to breakfast looking very pale and drawn. "l'm afraid you are ill, Mr. IU7ilde," remarked another member of the party. "No, not ill," replied \filde, "only tired. The fact is, I picked a primrose in the wood yesterday, andit was so ill I havebeen sitting up with it all night." 13 Wilde's legal battle with the Marquis of Queensberry, father of Lord Alfred Douglas, began when '$(ilde brought a caseof criminal libel againstthe marquis for publicly accusing him of sodomy. Shortly after the trial began, S7ilde met an actor friend, Charles Goodh art, in Piccadilly Circus, where every newspaper placard displayed his name and the newsboys were shouting it on every corner. Goodhart, feeling embarrassed, talked about the weather. \(/ilde, however, put him at his ease:"You've yourself. All is Don't distress heard of my case? are with me . . . to well. The working classes a boy."

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14 Sbntenced to two years'hard labor,Ifilde stood handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transportto prison."If this is the way Queen Victoria treatsher prisoners,"he remarked, "she doesn'tdeseroe to haveany."
15 Ada Leverson was a devoted friend of Oscar \7ilde, who alwayscalled her "Sphinx." It was she who gave him refuge when he had nowhere to go to escapethe public scandal after his first trial in 1895. When Wilde was releasedfrom prison two years later, she, her husband, and a very few others went early in the morning to the house of amurual friend to greet him before he departed for France.It was a difficult ordeal for all concerned, but \7ilde immediately put his friends at their ease. \ "SphinXr" he said as soon as he entered the \ room, "how marvelousof you to know exactly \ the right hat to wear at seven o'clock in the morning to meet a friend who hasbeenaway." \ 16 (Yeats recounts a story he was told of Ifilde's visit to a brothel in Dieppe after he had been releasedfrom prison. "Dowson" is the poet Ernest Dowson.) "Dowson pressedupon him the necessity of 'more acquiring a wholesome taste.' They emptied their pockets onto the caftable, and though there was not much, there was enough, if both heapswere put into one. Meanwhile the newshad spread, and they setout accompanied by r cheering crowd. Arrived at their destination, Dowson and the crowd remainedoutside, and presently t$(lildereturned. He said in a low voice to Dowson, 'The first theseten years,and it will be the last. It was like cold mutton' . . and then aloud, so that the crowd might hearhim,'But tell it in England,for it will entirely restore my character.'" 17 \7ilde died of cerebral meningitis in a hotel in Paris. He was offered and accepteda drink of champagne,remarking as he did so, "I am dying beyond my means." {Another version of this quip is "I suppose I shall have to die beyond my meansr" spoken to a doctor who mentioned an exorbitant fee for an operation.)

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was once askedabout his A congressman attitude toward whiskey. "If you mean the demon drink that poisons the mind, family life, pollutes the body, desecrates and inflamessinners,then I'm againstit, But if you mean the elixir of Christmas cheer, the shield againstwinter chill, the taxable potion that puts needed funds into public coffers to comfort little crippled children, then I'm for it. This is my position, and I will not compromise."

- Mark EdwardLenderand Kirby Martin, Drinking James A History in America:

5 Wilder had some difficulty understanding i evenwhen it wasr the concept of existentialism, explained-to him by Jean-PaulSartre himself.\ --. His researchinto the subject, however, gave\ I him the idea for a new film. "lt's a greatbi'or,"i i "This boy falls in lovef he said enthusiastically. with his mother and marriesher. They live toJ gether quite happily until one dty he learnsthaf in. isn'i his moiher. So he commits suicide.'f As, aB British Actor. WILDING, Michael (L91'2-79), His films include SailorsThree (1940)' Piccadilly Incident (1946),and Spring in Park Lane

WILDER, Billy [Samue[(1906- ), US film born in AustriA.His directorand screenwriter, (1950),'Witness Boulevard include Sunset films (1958), and SomeLike It for the Prosecution Hot (1959).
| \Tilder was sent to Berlin at the end of '$Var II to help reestablishthe German World entertainmentindustry. Having authorized the resumption of the Oberammergau Passion Play, he was asked if a certain actor, a known the role supporterof the Nazis, could reassume of Christ, which he had played before the war. "Certainly," replied Wilder, "rf you use real nails." 2 Before their marriage,Wilder's wife lived in a rather shabby p^rt of town, and \il7ilderdisliked havingto pick her up there for a date."I'd worship the ground you walked or," he told her, "if only you lived in a better neighborhood." 3 \Tilder was going to Europe for the opening of Some Like It Hot His wife, who had recently returned from a trip to Paris, asked him to sendback someCharvet ties for afriend and a bidet for herself.A couple of weekslater, Wilder cabled from France: "Charvet ties on way but impossible to obtain bidet. Suggest handstand in shower."
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I Wilding was once asked whether actors had any distinguishingfeatures that set them apart from other human beings. "'Without a doubtr" he replied. "You can pick out actors by the glazedlook that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves." 6s, e4 PAULINE HELENA WILHELMINA MARIA (1830-1962), queen of the Netherlands (1590-1948); mother of Queen luliana, who came to the tbrone after Wilbelmina's abdication in 1948 and reigneduntil 1980. I I At a meeting with \Tilhelm II during \forld 'War was not intimidatedX I, Que.tt rUflilhelmina by the kaiser's exaggerated boasts. "O.tt1fi guardsmenr"he declared,"ate sevenfeet t-"I!."N I "And when we open our dikes," replied thefi I queen,"the waters are ten feet deep." \ I {For similar quantitative combat see rt I \' jel"rEs rWersoN GTnARD L ') As, q8 WILKES, John (1'725-97), British politician and iournalist. He becameA member of Parliamen'tin 1757, wls arrested for libel in L753, and was outlawed the following year. Returning in 1768 from Paris, where he had liued in exile, he was t;wice electedMP for Middlesex, but was preuented from taking his seatuntil 1774-As an -MP, he secured important political freedoms

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with respect to the liberty of the pressand the indiuidual and the conduct of elections. I A voter once answered Wilkes's canvass with the words: "I'd sooner vote for the devil than you." "And if your friend isn't standingl" inquired \il(ilkes.

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\Tilkes 2 A RomanCatholicwasarguingwith about religion."'Wherewas your religionbefore Luther?"askedthe Catholic."Did you rejoined morning?" \(ilkes. washyour facethis \(/hen his opponentsaidthat he had, \flilkes went oo, "Then, pt"y, where was your face beforeit waswashed?"
3 As the popular leader of the London mob, Wilkes was often honored by having public housesnamedafter him and their signspainted with his picture. A lady, seeingone of these signs hanging out over the street, remarked, "Wilkes swings everywhere but where he ought." 4 Aftei" James Boswell had dined with the sheriffs and judges at a formal dinner at London's Old Bailey law courts, he complained that his pocket had been picked and his handkerchief stolen. "Poohr" said \filkes, "this is nothing but the ostentation of a Scotsmanto let the world know that he had possessed a pocket handkerchief." 5 After 1,786,when Wilkes became a supporter of Pitt, and hence of the government, the Vhigs liked to taunt him for his fickleness. The Prince of S7ales,I7ilkes's b4te noire, one evening recited to him Sheridan's mocking 'Johnny verses beginning, Wilkes, Johnny \ilfilkes, You greatestof bilks." I7ilkes waited for revengeuntil a gathering at Carlton House, when the prince called for toasts.Knowing the prince's loathing for his father and his glee at the king's illness, \Tilkes gave the toast: "The king; long life to him." "Since whenr" sneered the prince, "have you been so anxious about my parent's health?" "Since I had the pleasure of Your Royal Highness'sacquaintancer"replied \Tilkes with a most courteous bow. 6 Wilkes dined one night with the Earl of Sandwich in London's Covent Garden, tt the famous Beef SteakClub. After afair amounr ro

saidto Wilkes, "I have drink Lord Sandwich what catastrophe would bring often wondered you to your end; I think you must die of the pox or the halter." "My lord," repliedr07ilkes "that will depend on whether instantaneously, or your I embraceyour lordship'smistress " principles. lordship's {This retoft hasalso beenattributed to to Lord SandSamuelFoote, speaking wich, and, quite improbably,to Benjamin Disraeli, speaking to Gladstone.) Ar, 44 WILLARD, Frances Elizabeth Caroline (1839-98), US educatorand reformer, Actiue in the causesof temperance,u.tomen's rights, and industrial codes fo, tt)omen. In 1879 she becamepresident of the national Women'sCbristian Temperance Union, and presidentof the National Council of in 1,888 Women. I Frances Willard, a graduate of the North \U7estern Female Illinois, Collegein Evanston, spentthe formativeyearsof her careerthere. Although she died in New York, she always planned to returnto Evanston to die.Knowing shewas mortally ill, she said,"'When I reach heaven, I want to register as from Evanston." Compare RerPH \WALDo EunnsoN 7. A.' {6 WILLES, Sir John (1685-1751), British law(1737-67). lord chief !r, iustice I Rumors of irregularconduct in the lord chiefjustice's household became so rife that a dissenting clerg-yman decided to talk with him andperhaps bringhim to repentance. After approachingthe matter in a roundaboutwry, which \il7illes affectednot to understand, the clergyman cameto the point: "They saythat one of your maidseryants is now with child." "'What'sthat to me?"said\7illes. "But theysaysheis with child by your lordship." "'$7hat's that to you?" Ar, {6 WILLIAM I ['$filliamthe Conqueror] (102787), king of England(1055-87).As Duke of Normandy,William hada tenuous claimto the Englishtbrone,which he asserted on the death

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tions at Saraieuo(1914) inuolued Germany in 'WorldWar I. After Germany's defeathe liued in exile in the Netherlands. I As part of his program to build up the German travl, the kaiser himself designed a warship. I7hen the plans were complete, he sent them to the Italian minister of the marine, Admiral Brin, who was then considered the world's leading naval architect. In due course the admiral's report was transmitted to the kaiser.The ship would easilyoutgun any existing battleship;its rangeand speedwere likewise far in excess of any other vessel. Moreover, its internal arrangements were so well thought out that everyonesailingin it, from the commander to the humblest cabin boy, would find it a miracle of convenience and efficiency. The only problem, the report concluded, was that if the ship were actually put in the water it would sink like a lump of lead. 6s' qE III (1550-1702), king of EnWILLIAM gland (1559-1702) and Stadholder of the United Prouinces (1572-1702). In 1577 he married James II's daughter Mary ft552-94) and in 1.688 ioined the opposition to his fatherin-law. After the Glorious Reuolution he wAs proclaimed ioint raler, with Mary, of England. I During a journey by carriagethrough a village not far from Windsor, a woman who was determined to seethe king pressedup closeto the window to peer at the occupant. Having satisfiedher curiosity, she stepped back and remarked, "ls that the king? My husband is a handsomer man than he." King William overheardher, leanedout, and said,"Good woman' do not speakso loud. Pray considerthat I am a widower." As, q8 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE [Thomas Lanier rVilliams] (191'1-83), US dramatist. His bestknown works include the partly autobiographical The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). L Newspaperreports in L96Lannouncedthat tilTilliams had decided not to attend any further with his psychoanalyst.Asked the reasessions son for this decision, the playwright replied,

of Edward the Confessor.He defeatedand riual,King Harold,at the killedhisAnglo-Saxon (1055) banleof Hastings and imposedNorman rule throughout England. 1 Leadinghir arml of invasion ashore at Pe\Ufilliam in southeast England, vensey stumbled menaroundhim exandfell.The superstitious quickly claimedat the bad omen,but tilTilliam stoodup and,holdingout his muddiedhands, cried,"By the splendorof God I havetaken is possession of my realm;the earthof England in my two hands." is told of JuliusCae{A similaranecdote sar'slandingin Africa.) Ar, 48 king of Prussia WILLIAM I (1797-1888), (1871-S8). (1551-88) andemperor of Gelmany guidedby Bismarck, Germany During his reign, of Prussia. was united underthe leadership
I At a Berlin subscription ball, open to those of lesser rank as well as to high society, the emperor noticed his court tailor and greeted him amiably:"A lovely ball, isn't it?" The tailor bowed deeply, observing in a tone of servility, "These balls, Your Majesty, seem to draw a somewhat more mixed group of guests than formerly." The emperor smiled, then said, "True, but what can we do about it? \(re can't invite tailors only." 2 Daily at noon the emperor would station himself at the corner window of his Berlin palace and show himself to the thousandsof subjects and visitors who came to pay homage to this embodiment of imperial power. During his later years as his health declined, his doctors were emphatic in beseeching him not to weaken himself with this daily activity. It was in fact difficult for the old emperor, but he refused to obey his doctors. "No, there's no help for it. My daily appearance is listed in Baedeker." Ar, 48 'GerWILTIAM II (1859-1941), emperor of made he (188S-1918). accession his On many plain his determinationto build Germany into a great power under Prussian hegemony.Kaiser Bill, as he uas called, clashed with Britain ouer in Africa, and his supits colonial possessions port for Austria-Hungary after the assassina-

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"He was meddling too much in my private life." {According to his biographer, Donald Spoto, \Tilliams was not aware of the humor in his reply.) 2 One d^y Williams and one of his leading ladies,SylviaMiles, were walking through Piccadilly when Sylvia saw a very thin young girl. She whispered to Williams, "Oh, Tennessee, look - anorexia nervosar" and without the slightesthesitation he shot back, "Oh, Sylvia, you know everybody!" (He appreciated his own joke; it appeared later in Clotbes fo, a Summer Hotel.) 3 (When Williams received the gold medal for dtama from the National Institute of Ans and Letters, his brief acceptancespeechconsistedalmost entirely of an anecdote:) "One time, Maureen Stapleton received a phone call from a friend who said that so-andso was getting married, and the caller said, 'Why is she marrying that man, you know he is a homosexualr'andMaureen said,'Well, what about the bride?'And the caller said, '\U7ell, of coursewe know she'sa lesbian.And you know they're not even being married by a realminister, but by one who's been defrocked!' And Maureen said, '\Ufiil you do me one favor?t$fill you pleaseinvite Tennessee Williams? Because he'll s?y, "Oh, they're just plain folks!" "'

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words for which he will be remembered: "'What was good for the country was good for General Motors, and viceversa. The difference did not exist." Ar, {6 WILSON, Edmund(1895-1972), US literary critic and essayist. I Like all successful writers, $Tilson was beset by people wanting hisadvice or helpin all, mannerof literaryand other marters. To deal with the flood of lettershe had the following postcardprinted: "Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him ro: Readmanuscripts, write articlesor books to order,write forewordsor introductions, makestatements for publicitypurposes, do anykind of editorial work, judgeliteraryconrests, give interviews, takepart in writers'conferences, quesanswer tionnaires, contributeto or takepart in symposiums or'panels' or anykind,contribute manuscripts for sales, donatecopies of his booksto libraries, autograph works for strangers, allow his nameto be usedon letterheads, persupply sonalinformationabout himself,supplyopinionson litera He wasthen ry or othersubjects." pestered by people who wroreto him simplyin order to obtaina copy of the postcard. Ar, {6 WILSON, Sir Harold (1,916- ), British statesman; l^abourprime minister (1954-70, 1974-76).After a career Asa gouerrrment economist, be became a memberof Parliament.In 1963he became Labour leaderand the following year prime minister. His administration was increasingly doged by economicand in- t dustrial relationsproble/ns. I At a rally in the mid-1960s,\il7ilson was interrupted by a cry of "Rubbish!" from a hecklerar the back of the crowd. withour missing a beat,Wilson replied:"'S7e'll take up your special interestin a moment,sir." 2 On one occasion during Harold \$Tilson's tilTillie administration, Hamilton, the vociferous memberfor Fife Central,harangued the prime minister for his indecisivenesi on the issue of Britain's entryinto the European Common Market. "First we'rein, then we're outr" cried the irate Labour member."It's exactly like coitusinterruptus." The House,stunned

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! + The plapvright once visitedthe fabulous Park home of the \thirty-nine-roomGramercy publicist and art-and-celebrity collecIfamous Sonnenberg. Accordingto Ben Jtor Benjamin Jt.'s account, \Tilliams, after lSonnenberg, being shown through the ornaremansion, ref to the bathroo', stayed there briefly, lpaired "lt lookedsoshabby \andwaslaterheardro say, lwhenI took it out, I couldn'tgo." 6r' -8 WILSON, Charles Erwin (1890-1,961),US industrialist. He becamepresident of General Motors Corporationin 1941and u)asIJSsecre(1953-57). tary of dtfense | \7ilson, presidenr of General Motors, was nominated by President Eisenhower to be secretaryof defense. At his Senate confirmarion hearing, Wilson uttered perhaps the only

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hausted,"we guaranteesatisfactionor you will get your son back." 2 One afternoon during his time as governor of New Jersey,Wilson received news of the suddendeath of apersonalfrien draNewJersey senator.He was still recoveringfrom the shock when the telephone rang again.It was a prominent New Jersey politician. "Governor," he said,"I would like to take the senator'splace." Wilson replied, "It's perfectly agreeable to me if it's agreeable to the undertaker." 3 Shortly after the L glzpresidential election, rUfilsonvisited an agedaunt whom he had not seenfor some time. "What are you doing these days, \Toodrow?" she asked. "l've just been elected presidentr" replied \filson. "Oh, yes? Presidentof what?" inquired the aunt. "Of the United States." The old lady snorted impatiently. "Don't be silly!" she said. 4 President\Wilson had refused to receivea deputation of lrish-American leaders headed by the agitator Daniel F. Cohalan.Wilson's private secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, aware of the Cohalan'sgreatinfluence,tried to persuade president to changehis mind. "Think what a terrible impressionit will make on his followers if you don't," he said. "That's iust what I wanted it to do," replied \7ilson, "but I think it will make a good impression on decent people," 5 During the Versailles peace negotiations, \il7ilsonopposed the ceding of the Adriatic pon of Fiume to Italy. The head of the Italian delegation, V. E. Orlando, argued eloquently that Italy's right to the city was undeniable,sinceits language, population, and cultural affinities were all predominantly ltalian. "I hope you won't pressthe point in respectto New York City," countered Wilson, "or you might feel like claiming a sizable piece of Manhattan Island."

into silence, erupted with laughter whena Tory member shouted, "\7ithdraw." A+ q8 WILSON, Harriette (1786-1,846), British courtesan.She had a seriesof distinguished louers and acquaintancesin English high society. I Around 1820 Harriette, finding herself shortof money, decided to write hermemoirs. The enterprisewas widely publicized,Harriettemakingno secret of the factthat shewas namingnames. Someformer "friends" were ableto buy themselves out of the narrative by substantial cashpayments. The Duke of \7ellington, otr beingofferedsuch a deal,is said to have respondedwith "Publish and be Harriettedid publish;the publisher damned!" sold thirty editionsof the book within a year. Ar, 44 WILSO N, Richard(I7 14-82),Welsbpainter. He trainedas a portraitist, but after a uisit to his interestto landItaly in the 1750schanged He became thefirst notable Britishlandscapes. painter. scape painting 1 The Italiantradition of landscape were of the Italianlandscape and the beauties Wilson'schange of allethe factorsthat caused giance in mid-career. On a visit to the famous waterfallat Terni,he is saidto haveexclaimed, "'Well-done water- bv God!" Al, ..6 WILSON, lThomas]Woodrow(L856-1.924), presidentof PrincetonUniuerUS statesman; (1911gouernor of New Jersey sity(1902-10); (1913of the UnitedStates 13);28th president position in the 21).After maintaininga neutral 'Wilson euentually first yearsof World War I, (1917)broughtthe United States into the conflict, following upon Germansubmarineoutinto rages.His FourteenPoints, incorporated laid thefoundationfor the Treaty of Versailles, of Nations. the League \filUniversity, of Princeton 1 As president at lengthby an anxsonwasonceinterrogated ious mother who wanted to be sure that wasthe bestplaceto sendher son. Princeton "Madamr" said Wilson, his patience ex-

4., 48 Shelley [Shirley Schrift] WINTERS, and telescreen, (1922- ), USactress of stage, mainly for her comedyroles uision,celebrated Her manyfilmsincludeADouandhercandor. andThe of Blue(1955), A Patch bleLife (1948), (1972). Adventure Poseidon

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I Al Horwits workedat onetime for UniverOneof in thepublicitydepaftment. salPictures 'Winters. his clients was the young Shelley to meeta certainItalianproducer, Scheduled she called Honvits to get some background information. Said Horwits, "He's a terrible wolf. He'll tear the clothesoff your back." "So I'll wearan old dress,"saidShelley. Ar, -.6 (1874-1949),US rabbi, Samuel WISE,Stephen born in Hungary.In 1907he foundedthe Free in Neu York City. He was also the Synagogue of theJewishInstituteof founderand president Religion.
I1 Having acceptedan invitation to addressan anti-N azimeetingin Brooklyn, \fise receiveda number of threatening letters. Undaunted, the rabbi attended the meeting as scheduled and opened his speechwith the words: "I have been warned to stay away from this meeting under pain of being killed. If anyone is going to shoot
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asked. "l never know what to say to the lift boyr" was the answer. 3 On a visit to the zoo \Todehousewandered into the monkey houseand was confronted by a ferocious-looking monkey. For a while the two stared at one another. Finally the monkey turned and stalked off, revealing for the first time its scarlet, purple, and orange behind. Plum shook his headsadly."That monkey," he declared, "is wearing its club colors in the wrong place," Al, ..6 WOFFINGTON, Peg(c. 1714-60),Irish actress. She excelled in Restoration comedies, often taking male roles,and was mistressof and leading lady for Dauid Garrick. I After one of her triumphs in a "breeches" part, Peg\foffington withdrew backstage,szying exultantly, "Half the pit really took me for
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i melet him do it now. I hateto beinterrupted." 4., .'.6 WODEHOUSE, Sir P[elham] G[renville] (188I-L975), British humorousnouelistwho liued much of his life abroad, becominga US citizen in 1955. His most famouscharacters includeBertie Wooster,An upper-chssidiot of 1920s uintage, and his impeccable mansewant friends calledhim Plum. leeues.Wodehouse's I EthelrU(lodehouse wasa naruralpartygiver, her inclinations and on occasion wereallowed to overridePlum's.Once when Ethel gavea pafty, someguestsarrived rather late. tU7hen they rangthe bell, the front door wasopened not by the butler but by Plum. He suryeyed them carefully and, recognizing them as friends, put out both hands in a gesture to push them away."Don't comeinr" he said,"don't comein. You'll hateit!" 2 \U7odehouse's terror of casual humancontacts assumedalmost pathologicalproportions. The Wodehouses were looking'S7odefor an apaftmentin New York, and as Mrs. housewas dbout to go out to continuethe search her husband calledher back."Get one on the ground floorr" he said. "\Vhy?" she

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Austrian comWOLF, Hugo (1850-1903), poser.A discipleof Wagner, he composed more thantwo hundredsongs, theoperaDer Corregidor (1895),and a number of instrumental works.
I In 1897, \U7olfwent mad and was committed to an asylum. He was still sane enough, however, to be aware of his condition. "Is that clock right?" he once asked,pointing to a large clock that hung in the dining room of the asylum. "As far as I knowr" replied one of the attendants. "Then what's it doing here?" inquired \Ufolf.

6r, -8 (1727-59),Britishsoldier WOLFE, James who diedleadingthe attackon Quebec in whichBritain seizedthe city from tbe Frenchduring the Seuen YeArs' War. | \7olfe's energy and self-confidence did nor endear him to his fellow commanders. One of themcomplained to KingGeorge II that tUfolfe was mad. "Mad, is he?" said the monarch.

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Parker'sposition in American letters is such as to make shamefulthe petty refusalswhich she and Alan haveencounteredat many hotels,restaurants, and department stores. \fhat if you never get paid?\ilfhy shouldn't you stand your shareof the expense?" 3 Woollcott was constantlyreferredto in the Broadway and literary columns. At one stage, the popular columnist Walter \Tinchell quoted a whole seriesof jokes and wisecrackshe attributed to Woollcott. In fact, they had been made up by Inring Mansfield,whom Woollcott had hired for the pu{pose.Mansfield,who later became a well-known television producer, soon ran out of funny things to sdl, and \7inchell's column no longer contained bons mots attributed to Woollcott. After a couple of weeks \Toollcott sent Mansfield a telegram: "Dear Inring, whatever happenedto my sense of humor?" playwright Moss Hart's sumptu4 On seeing grounds, ous country mansionand landscaped lilToollcott remarked, 'Just what God would have done if he had the money." 5 The writer Ludwig Lewisoht, of Jewish to Woollcott about getting stock, complained 'Woollcott remarked, "Ludwig a bad review. thinks he gets bad reviews becausethe critics are anti-Semitic.Actually it's becauseLudwig has halitosis." 6 While \(/oollcott was a regularcontributor rc The New Yorker, he attendeda dinner party in London at which the guestof honor was the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII. The ladieshad left the room and the gentlemenhad started on their port and cigars, when the prince intimated that he would like a few words in private with Mr. I7oollcott. The gentlemen withdrew after the ladies, leaving rilToollcott tOte-i-tte with royalty, his head filled with visions of splendid commissions from the prince. "l understand, Mr. Woollcott, that you have something to do with that States,The New Yorker," m gazinefrom the 'Woollcott admitted that he began the prince. had. "Then why the devil don't I get it more regularly?"demandedHis Highness."Do look inio it, will you?" Then they ioined the rest of the party.

\"Then I wish he'd bite some of my other jgenerals." I {See UryssES S. GneNr 5 for Lincoln's remarkabout his general.) Ar, e8 WOODBRIDGE, FrederickJamesEugene (L857-1940),US professor, born in Canada. professor He became of philosophy at Columin L902and wts alsodeanof the bia Uniuersity philosophy,and facultiesof political science, (1912-29). purescience formerstudents recI Oneof Woodbridge's with the distinollectsstrollingon the campus guished philosopher. The deanremarked re"The Cathedral flectively, of Chartres wasbuilt of by the spirit of the Virgin; the University Virginiawasbuilt by the visionof Thomas Jefferson;Columbiawas built by McKim, Mead and'White."
4., q8 US WOOLLCOTT, Alexander (1887- 1,943), writer, drama critic, broadctster, and New York wit. 'War I, I In his early yearsof servicein \U7orld as a sergeantin the Medical Corps, Woollcott and his outfit camped at Le Mans in appalling conditions. The tents leaked,and the men were obliged to put up their rickety beds in muddy pools of rainwater. Shortly aftenvard, \7oollcott was transferred to the Paris office of The Stars and Stripes, the US army newspaper.He spent the remaining war years in luxury, fre' quenting the boulevard cafesand dining at the Ritz each evening.After the Armistice he h"ppened to meet one of his former colleagues from the Medical Corps. "You made an awful mistake leaving our unit when you didr" said the soldier."The week afteryou went, they put wooden floors in our tents." 2 Opening an account at a New York department store, Dorothy Parker and her new husband, Alan Campbell, cited \Toollcott as a refThey were erencefor their financialreliability. 'Woollcott's ensoon to regret their choice. dorsement read: "Mr. Alan Campbell, the presenthusband of Dorothy Parker, has given his attempt to open my name as a rcferencein'We all hope you will an account at your store. extend this credit to him. Surely Dorothy

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7 After \Toollcott gave a lecture in a midwestern town, 4D elderly lady approached him and told him that his lecture had given her much pleasure."Andr" she went otr, "I was encouraged to speak to you becauseyou said that you loved old ladies." "Yes, I do," replied lilToollcott, "but I also like them your age." 8 Childless himself, the redoubtable Alexander Woollcott was, on nineteen occasions, godparent to the children of friends. At the baptism of Mary MacArthur, daughter of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes, tilToollcott was heard to exclaim with characteristic gusto: "Always a godfather, never a god!" Ar, 48

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WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850), English Romantic poet. After leauing Cambridgehe went on a walking tour in Europe. While in France(1791-92),he had an affair girl; AnnetteVallon,by whom he with a French had a daughter. At that time he was fired with idealsof the FrenchReuolutbe enthusiasm for Wordsworth,markinga new era tion. In 1,795 in Englishpoetry, met Coleridge. The Lyrical (1798) Ballads wAstheoutcom'e of theircollaboration. Vordsworth senledwith his wife and his sisterin the EnglishLake district, wherehe liued the rest of his life. Here he wrote The Prelude, not published until afterhis death. I As Wordsworth's poeticarteries hardened, he became an ardentpatriot and an establishmentfigure. At a gathering at which the youthful JohnKeats waspresent, Keats attempted to breakinto Wordsworth'smonologue with an enthusiastic agreement with what the older poetwassaying. Mrs. lilTordsworth leaned over and checked him. "Mr. \Wordsworth is never interruptedr"shewhispered. 2 Wordsworth boastedin CharlesLamb's hearing, "I couldwrite like Shakespeare if I had a mind to." "So it's only the mind that'slackingr"murmuredLamb. 3 At the time when \ilTordsworth and Tom Moore werethe heroes of London literarysociety,both wereinvitedro a reception at which Moore promptlybecame the centerof attraction, monopolizing the guests' artentionwith

his wit and gaiety.The hostessnoticed Wordsworth standing on the fringes of the group, looking a little sour. "Oh, Mr. \Wordsworth," she said, thinking to draw him into the fun, "isn't Mr. Moore amusing? He sayssuch entertaining things." "Very amusing; very entertainingr" said Wordsworth glumly. "You know I have only once in my life ever said anything very amusing." The hostess clappedher handsfor silence and asked \Tordsworth to repeat that mot for the guests,who all fell silent and waited expectantly. "l was walking along near Grasmerer" Wordsworth began, "when I met a dalesman who appeared to be looking for something,and when he saw me the man hurried over and asked me if I had seenhis wife an) Mhere along the road. And you know what I said?I said,'My good man, I didn't even know that you had a wife.' That was the one time in my life that I have ever said anything very amusing."

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I In 1,963 the New York Rangers traded Worsley to the Montreal Canadiens for Jacques Plante. A television producer called both men to ask them ro appear on a spofts show to discussthe controversial deal. Plante asked how much he would be paid. The producer said that guestson the show were not usually paid, but he was prepared to make a payment to each man of fifty dollars. Planre 'Worsley. then telephoned "Are they paying you a hundred dollars too?" he demandedsus'Sforsley. piciously. "Yeahr" said Plante then telephoned the producer again. "'W'hy are you paying Gump a hundred bucks and me only fifty?" he asked. The producer protested that he was not, and managed to convince Plante that each man was gerring only fifty dollars. Planteshowed up for the program, \il7orsley did not. Plante then gor in touch with'V7orsley ro ask why he had not appeared."'Why should I?" exclaimed !7orsley. "They were paying you a hundred dollars and me only fifty." Ar, '.S WREN, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), British architect, mAthematician, and astronomer. He designedmany new buildings, the greatestbeing St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

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594 theymadethefirst powered 1903 flightat Kitty Hawb North Carolina. | \Vearyof explaining of their the principles Flyer's performanceto the inquisitive, the Wright brothers said simply, "The airplane it doesn't havethe time to staysup because fall." Ar, ..6 BritWYCHERLEY, William (1640-171,5), comedies, such ish playwright.His scintillating As The Country Wife (1573)and The Plain Dealer (?1574),satirized the manners and moralsof Restoration society. anda friendwere I Onedty when\Tycherley a fashionable in a bookstorethey overheard if he had bookseller the young lady asking 'sfycherley's friend at once The Plain Dealer. to the ladyandsaid,"Here, him across pushed himself."The lady is the PlainDealer madam, of turned out to be the widowed Countess Drogheda. She and Wycherley exchanged and as they partedshesaid,"I compliments, Acting on this love plain dealingbest of a11." wooed her in the manneraphint, \Tycherley andthey of his comedies provedby the heroes marriedin 1,580. Ar, qE US poet and WYLIE, Elinor (1885-L928), nouelist. writer Katherandshort-story I The novelist ine Anne Porterwasrousedfrom sleepby the On the stepwas Elinor doorbellat 4:00
Wylie, who announced, "I have stood the of the world as long as I can and I am crassness going to kill myself. You are the only person in ihe world to whom I wish to say goodbye." Since at the time Elinor Wylie was richly endowed with all the material advantages her friend lacked, Katherine Anne Porter was not disposed to be sympathetic. "Elinorr" she said, "it was good of you to think of me. Goodbye."

the insideof Wind| \ilhen Wren designed sor Town Hall, his ceilingwas supportedby felt he had not pillars.The buildinginspectors He put in Wren felt differently. put up enough. four more pillars that did not actuallytouch theyonly lookedasif theydid.The the ceiling; werefooled, and the four fake pilinspectors larssdll stand. Ar, ..6 arWRIGHT, FrankLloyd (1869-1955),US chitect.He producedstrikingly originaldesigns and public buildings, for both priuatedwellings includingthe lmperial Hotel, Tokyo, and the GugenheimMuseumof Art, New York. in Wisconsin I In 1937,Wrightbuilt a house and his famHibbardJohnson for industrialist entertainwas ily. One rainy evening Johnson guests for dinnerwhen ing somedistinguished the roof began to leak. The water seeped through the ceiling directly above Johnson himself,drippingsteadilyonto the top of his Irate,heput a callthroughto Wright baldhead. in Phoenix,Arizona. "Frankr" he said,"yo,t built this beautifulhousefor me and we enjoy it verymuch.But I havetold you theroof leaks, and right now I am with somefriendsand disguests and it is leakingright on top tinguished of my head."Wright's replywasheardby all. "Well, Hibr" he said,"*hy don't you move your chair?" {This anecdoteis told by SamuelC. famof the Johnson x member Johnsoo, It apily, famous wax manufacturers. issued by theJohnson in a brochure pears Foundation.) RexStoutbuilt a fourteen2 In 1930novelist on a hilltop in with hisown hands, room house, Laterhe invitedFrank Danbue/,Connecticut. it andwaitedpatiently Lloyd \Tright out to see it carefully Wright examined for hisevaluation. should "A superb spot.Someone andthensaid, build a househere." Al, {S and Wilbur WRIGHT, Orville (1871-L948) I n D ecember auiators. (I8 67 -L9L2) rUSpioneer

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XERXES (died 465 nc), King of Persia (455-455 nc), who led the great Persian expedition against Greece in 480 nc. The Bible calls him Abasuerus. it was overloaded with Persianswho had accompanied Xerxes.The king asked the pilot if there was any hope of safety. The man replied that there was none, unlessthe ship's load was substantiallylightened. Xerxes then turned to the Persians on deck and said,"lt is on you that my safetydepends.Now let some of you show your regardfor your king." A number of those who heard him made obeisance to him and then threw themselvesoverboard. Thus lightened, the ship came safely to harbor. After he landed Xerxes immediately ordered that a golden crown be presentedto the pilot for presenringthe king's life; however, he also commandedthat the man's head should be cut off, as he had causedthe loss of so many Persian lives.

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I Xerxes, surveying the great army he had assembledfor the invasion of Greece,seemed at first very h"ppy, but presently began to weep, "I am moved to pityr" he said, "when I think of the brevity of human life, seeingthat of all this host of men not one will still be alive in a hundred years'time."

2 On his retreat from GreeceXerxes boarded a Phoenicianship to transport him back to Asia Minor. On the way a fearful storm blew up and the ship seemedlikely to founder, especially as

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YEATS, William Butler (18d5-I939),Irish poetandplaywright.His earlypoems reflect the decadent romanticmood of 1890s poetry,but his maturework, much of which appeared in The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair (1929),dealspowerfullywith tragic themesold dge,the impermanence of humanendean)or, and tbe biner choicesin Irish history. With I-,adyGregoryhe founded (1904) the Abbey Theatre,Dublin, and wrote many playsfor it. | (Yeats had a lifelonginterestin the occult. The conversation centered on this topic when LouisMacNeice professor andE. R. Dodds, of Greek at Oxford, went to tea with him in 1934.) "He talkeda greatdealabout the spiritsto whom his wife, being a medium, had introducedhim. 'Haveyou everseen them?' Dodds asked (Dodds could never keep back such questions). Yeatswas a little piqued.No, he said grudgingly,he had never actually seen them . . but - with a flashof triumph- he had often smeltthem." 2 In the 1930s Dr. Steinach a certain claimed to be ableto rejuvenate agingmen by implanting new sex glands.Yeats read a pamphlet about this treatment and was impressed enough to askhisphysician asto the advisability of the operation.\il7hen the physicianrefusedto commithimself, Yeats went ahead and had the operationin London in May t934. Back in Dublin he was fully convinced of the His friend Oliver St. success of the treatment. John Gogarty,also a doctor by training,was Yeats andquestioned closely appalled aboutit. "What was wrong with you?" Gogarty inquired."f usedto fall asleepafterlunchr" replied Yeats. Fr, -6 YOSHIDA, Shigeru(1878-1967), Japanese politiciAn.Hauingsented in a numberof foreign capitals beforeWorldWar II, hebecame foreign minister in 1945and prime minister in May 1945,as the new headof the Liberalparty. I Yoshida wasambassador to England in the late1930s. Anxiousto avoida certain Japanese cabinetministerwho wasvisitingLondon, he told his staff:"\U7henever that manphones, tell him I'm out." The orderwasobeyed; the ministertried in vainon several to reach occasions the ambassador. Suspicious, he decided to call at the embassy in person. He happened to pass Yoshidain the foyerandasked him if he might speakto the ambassador. "No, sirr" replied Yoshida. "The ambassador is out." The minisflashof recogter lookedat him with a sudden nition. "But aren't you the ambassador?" he "I amr" saidYoshida. "And, sir, when asked. you hearfrom Yoshidahimselfthat Yoshidais it!" out, you can believe 1. alsoSclptoNesIce SEnePIo See Ar, -.6 YUSUPOV, Prince Feliks (datesunknown), Russian noblemAn. He wasoneof thecbiefconspiratorsin the murderof Rasputinin 7975. I In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Raspu\ tin and theEmpress the studiosoughtto avoid , \ trouble with PrinceYusupovby changing to \ | PrinceChegodieff the name of the character U who played his role in the story. They had , I reckoned proprietary without the prince's arri- \ [ tude to the murder.He suedthe studio in a r I London court for deprivinghim of the credit I for hisactions. He won hiscase andthe studio I had to pay a considerable sum in damages. I Then a real PrinceChegodieff cameforward t and suedfor the libeloususeof his name.He I also won his caseand MGM paid off once J more.

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BritishnouZA N GWILL, Israel(L864-1,926), He elist and playwright of Jewish parentage. beginof nouels, depicted ]ewish life in a series The Childrenof ningwith thehighlysuccessful He followedTheodor Herzl the Ghetto(1592). as leaderof the Zionist mouement. I Zangwill was watching a tedious Sardou melodrama.Halfway through he remarked, part of my body;it "My legis the only sensible hasgoneto sleep,"
2 Zangwill, tired and careless of his surrounditrBS,yawned in the face of the lady sitting next to him at dinner. "Mind your Jewish o'I nr"-nn.rsr" said she. thought you *.ti going to swallow me." | "Have no fear, madam," replied Zangwill. "My religion prohibits my doing that." \ I Andrew Lang wrote to inquire of his friend \lsrael Zangwill whether he planned to attend a [certain event. The reply came back: "If you, F"rg, will, l. Zangwill." 4 Anouueau-richepeer, whoseaccentdid not match his social position, was feeling the effects of a heavy drinking sessionof the night before. "Oh, my'ead! My'ead!" he moaned. "What you need is two aspiratsr" recommended Zangwill. 8l, ".6 ZENO (c. 335 -c.263 BC),Greekphilosopher, born at Citium (Cyprus). He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he established in Athens around 300 nc. I Zeno caught his slavestealing,and gavehim il a good beating. The slave,something of a phiil losopher himself, pleaded, "Bur it was fated
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painter. Greek ZEUXIS (c. 424-c.380 BC), painting of a boy holdinga dishof I Zeuxis's (see grapes SlnGoornsy KNELLER 2) wasexecuted by Zeuxisto provethat he could outdo his rival Parrhasius in trompe-l'oeil effects. When the birdsattackedthe grapes, it seemed certainthat victory would go to Zeuxis,who then calledupon Parrhasius to draw back the his own painting.But this curtain concealing supposed curtainwasitselfpainted, andZeuxis hadto concede that while he had beenableto had beenableto the birds,Parrhasius deceive him. deceive 6't ''8 -1932),U ZIE GFELD, Floren z (1867 Stheatrical producer.He createdthe famous Ziegfeld -32) and such sbows as Sally Follies (1907 (1920)and ShowBoat (1927),besides launching many starson their careers. 1 Ziegfeldonce offeredGracieAllen $750a in one of his London shows. week to appear Sheasked what he would offerif her husband and straight man, George Burns, were included."Five hundredr"wasthe answer. alsoGnoucHo MaRX 8. See &.' 48 ZOG I, King of Albania(1895-L95I), kingof Albaniafrom 1928to 1.939, forcedinto exileby Mussolini. I In 1940Zog,accompanied by hisroyalrerinue,arrived at the Ritz hotelin London.Some of the luggage seemed remarkably heavy, exciring the curiosityof George,the hall porter. George asked the kingwhethertheycontained anything very valuable."Yes," replied Zog, "gold."

lf t l that I should steal." {f "And that I should beat your" retorted tt 1! Zeno.
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Nicholas Mu rray Butler and ProfessorBrander Matthews of Columbia University were having a conversation and Professor Matthews was giving his ideas as to plagiarism, from an article of his own on that subject. "In the case of the first man to use an anecdote," he said, "there is originality; in the caseof the second,there is plagiarism; with the third, it is lack of originality; and with the fourth it is drawing from a common stock." "Yesr" broke in PresidentButler, "and in the caseof the fifth, it is research." - B. A. Botkin, A Treasury of American Anecdotes

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Callas.New York: Holt, Rinehart S( Winston, 1974. ARENDT, HANNAH.Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace,6c World, 1958. ARLEN, MICHAEL J. Exiles. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, L970. ARLoTr, JoHN.Cricket:The Great Ones.London: Pelham Books,1967. ARLorr, JoHN.John Arlott's Book of Cricketers. London:Sphere,1982. ARNoLD, THURMAN. Fair Fightsand Foul: A DissentingLawyer's Life. New York: Harcourr, Brace6c \U[rorld, 1965. ARVINE,KLzLrrr. Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 185L.Rpt., Gale Research Co., Detroit,1967. ASrMov,rsAAc.Asimou's BiographicalEncyclopediaof Science and Technolog. New York: Doubled"y, 1954.

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This index lists the nameof everypersonappearingin the book (exceptfor those in the boxed of their own. Boldfaceindicatesthosepersonswho havebiographiesand anecdotes anecdotes). asindicatedby any indented peoplemay be mentionedaswell in other persons'anecdotes, These nameslPeisonswhose namesare set in lightface type appearonly in other persons'anecdotes not pages.Thus: or biographies(denotedas bio). Numbers are those of anecdotes' Albert, Prince Coward 5 Disraeli 15 Victoria bio, 5-7,9 means that Prince Albert has anecdotesand a biography of his own, and is mentioned in anecdote5 for Noil Coward, anecdote 16 for Benjamin Disraeli, and the biography and anecdotes5-7 and 9 for QueenVictoria.

Aaron, Henry Louis ["Hank"] Abbott, Bud Abbey, Edwin A. Sargent, J. S., 1 Aberconway,Lady Walton 2 Abercrombie,Lascelles Abernethy,John Acheson, Dean [Gooderham] HolmeS, O. W., Jr.r9 Acton, Harold I7augh 2 Adam, rUfilliam Fox, C. J.r 2 Adams, Alexander Annan Adams, Ansel Adams, Franklin Pierce Marshall,T. R., 1 Ross9 Adams,John Adams, J. Q., bio Jeffersor,T., bio, 10 Adams,John Quincy Addams,Jane Addison,Joseph Steele &lo

Ade, George Adee, Alvey Augustus Adenauer,Konrad Adler, Hermann Adler, Mortimer Hutchins 3 Stein5 Adler, Stella Clurman t-2 Adolf, Crown Princeof Sweden Baker,J., 1 AE. SeeRussell, GeorgerU7illiam Aeschylus Porson2 Aesop La Fontarnebio Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agate,James Braithwaite2 Campbell, Mrs. P., 9 Agnew, Spiro Ford, G., bio Agoult, Comtesse d' Liszt bio Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Julia L

Agrippina Nero bio, I Aidan, Saint Albemarle,William Anne Keppel, 2d Earl of Albert, Prince Coward 5 Disraeli16 Victoria bio, 5-7, 9 Albert, Eugdned' Albert I, King of Belgium Elisabeth bio Leopol d lI 2 AlbertusMagnus Aquinas L Alcibiades Alcott, Abigail May Alcom,A. B., I Alcott, Amos Bronson Alcott, L. M., bio Eddy 1 Alcott, Louisa May Alcott,A.8., bio Eddy 1 Alcott, M"y Alcott, A. 8., I

INDEX

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652
Anaxagoras Anaximenes Anders,William A[lison] Andersen, Hans Christian Hugo 4 Anderson,Sherwood Andrew, Father Agnellus tilTiliam Anglesey, Hetrry, Marquess of S7ellingron 7 Anglin, Margaret Fiske1 Angoulme, Marie Th6rdse Charlotte,Duchesse d' Anjou, Duke of Stubbs1 Anne, Princess Anne, Queenof England Bolingbroke bio Marlborough,J. C., bio Anne of Austria Lenclosbio Mazarrn bio Anne of Cleves Henry VIII 2 Howard, C., bio Anson,Baron George Keppel bio Antheil, George Anthony, SusanB. AntiochusIII, King of Syria Hannibal bio, I Antisthenes Antony, Mark Augustusbio, I Cicero bio Apelles Aquinas,SaintThomas Arbuthnot,John Swift 1 Archelaus Archer, William Archimedes Arditi, Luigi Aretino, Pietro Tintoretto L Titian 1 Argyll, Duke of TennysonL Aristides Aristippus Diogenes 4 Aristogiton IphicratesL Aristotle Scott5 Thales2 Arlen, Michael [Dikran Kouyoumdjianl Coward 4 Armour, Philip Danforth Armour, Mrs. Philip Danforth Lillie 3 Armstrong,Louis ["Satchmo"] Smith,8., bio Armstrong, Neil Armstrong-Jones, Anthony. See Snowden Arne, Thomas Augustine Arnim, Harry Karl Kurt Eduard,Count von Arno, Peter[Curtis Arnoux Peters] Arnold, Matthew Empedocles I Arnould, [Madeline]Sophie Galiani 1 Arp, Jean Brown 2 Arria Arthur, King Edward III 1 Arundel,Earl of Bacon5 Asche,fiohn StangerHeiss] Oscar Ashcroft, Peggy Gielgud1 Ashe,Arthur [Robert] Asoka Asquith,Anthony Asquith,M., bio Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith Asquith,M., bio Asquith, Margot Balfour 1 Smith,F. E., bio Asquith,Violet Churchill,W., 5 Astaire,Fred [Frederick Austerlitzl Astaire,Phyllis Astaire3 Astor, John Jacob Astor, Mary Kaufman 20 Astor, Mary Dahlgren Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne, Viscountess 'Vf., 7 Churchill, Shaw,G. 8., L5 Stalin 1 Astor, Waldorf, Viscount Churchill,W., 7 Astor, rVilliam 17aldorf Astor,M. D., bio Astruc,Gabriel 1 Stravinsky

Alembert,Jeanle Rond d' du Deffand bio Hume 4 Voltaire 13 AlenEon, Duc d' AlenEon bio AlenEon,Sophie-Charlotte, Duchesse d' Alexander I, Czar Talleyrand 11 AlexanderII, Czar Muraviev 1 AlexanderIII, Czar Patti 1 AlexanderIII [Alexanderthe Great], King of Macedon Anaximenes L ApellesI de Gaulle3 Diogenes L, 3, 6 Gardner, I. S.,2 Maria Fedorovna, bio I Philip II bio, 1, Alexander VI, Pope Alexander,Sir George Alexander,Grover Cleveland Alexander,Harold, 1st Earl of Tunis] [Alexander Alexander,Samuel Alexandra,Queen Edward YII bio Alfano, Franco Toscanini5 Alfonso X Alfonso XIII Alfred [Alfred the Great] Ai, Muhammad [Cassius Clay] Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim L Allais, Alphonse Allen, Ethan Allen, Fred Allen, Gracie Burns L Ziegfeld I Allen, Walter PlomerL Allinghzffi,William Carlyle 2 Alma-Tadema,Sir Lawrence Altenbrg,Peter Alvanley,William Arden, 2d Baron Ambrose,Saint Alan Ameche, Unitas L Amory, Cleveland Hepburn 1 'Amr Ibn Al-as 'Omar L

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Atkinson, ChristopherThomas Atlas, Charles Attlee, Clement Bevin bio Churchill,W., 37 Gielgud5 Atwater, Edith Hart L Auber, Daniel FrangoisEsprit Aubernon, Euphrasie d' Aubign6,Frangoise Scarronbio Aubign6,Jean Henri Merle d' Aubrey,John Charlesll 2 Coke L Corbet 1 Raleigh4 L Shakespeare Louis Auchincloss, Marquand 3 Auchinleck,Claude \favell 1 Auden, Wystan Hugh Eliot, T. S., 5 Plomer L Auerbach,Arnold Jacob ["Red"] Augustineof Hippo, Saint Augustus[GaiusJulius Caesar Octavianus] Juliabio,2-4 Aumale, Henri, Duc d' FerdinandI, King, 1 Austin, Alfred 1 Salisbury Austin, Warren Robinson M. d' Auteroches, Hay I Avempace[Abu Bekr Ibn Baija] Avery, Oswald Aym6, Marcel Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marchesed' Babbage,Charles Bacall, Lauren Bogart bio Salvatore Baccaloni, Bing 1 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,Johann Sebastian Bach,C. P. 8., bio Cortot L Enescobio Landowska1 Bacon, Francis,lst Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Bader,Sir DouglasRobertStuart Baeyer,Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, Lydia BaeyerL Bahr, Hermann Baignidres, Mme AubernonL Baillie,Joanna Byron 2 Bailly, Jean Sylvain Baker, Josephine Lillie 7 Baker,Newton D. Ross2 Baker,Russell L. B.r 2 Johnsotr, Bakst, L6on Balanchine,George Astaire bio Diaghilevbio L2 Stravinsky Baldwin, Stanl.y, lst Earl Barrie 2 Churchill,\Uf.,10 Balfour, Arthur James,lst Earl of 9 Clemenceau WeizmannL Balmain, Pierre Balsan,Consuelo Balsan,Colonel Lieutenant Jacques Balsanblo Balzac,Honord de Bancroft, Sir Squire Bankhead,Tallulah \WilliamBrockman Bankhead, ad 9 Bankhe Banks,SarahSophia Banks,Sir Joseph Banksbio Barber,Robert Reynolds1 Barbirolli, Sir John Barentin,M. de Louis XVIII 1 (Abulfarai) Bar-Hebraeus 'Omar L Barham, Richard Harris Baring-Gould, Sabine Trollope, F., 2 Barnes, Dr. Albert Picasso 3 Barnes,Diuna Barnum, PhineasTaylor Barr, Stringfellow Barrie, Sir J[ames]M[atthew] Beerbohm2 Bernard2

INDEX

OF NAMES

Betty 1 Thomsoo,J., 1, Barrow, Isaac Barry, George Eddy 1 Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, M., bio Connelly2 Barrymore,John 8., bio Barrymore, Barrymore, M., bio, 2-3 Cowl L Barrymore,Lionel E., bio Barrymore, M., bio Barrymore, Barrymore, Maurice Bart6k, B6la Barton, Clara Baruch,BernardMannes Barzun, Jacques Trilling 1 Basie,"Count" [William] Basire, James Blake,W., 2 Batista,Fulgencio 2 Weissmuller Baugh,Sammy Baum, L[yman] Frank Baylis,Lilian de Valois bio Baylor, Elgin Hundley 2 Achille FranEois, Bazaine, General Aumale 3 Lady Beaconsfield, Edward VII 3 Bean,Roy Bean,Russell A., 2 Jackson, Beaton,Sir Cecil de Gaulle 1 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 9 Losch L Beatty,David Beatty, lst Earl de Beauharnais, Jos6phine I bio,2, 5 Napoleon Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, Caron de Beaumont,Francis Coward 8 Keats3 Beauvoir,Roger de Dumas fils 3 Beaverbrook,William Maxwell Aitken, lst Baron L Castlerosse Churchill,R. F. E. S.r2 Luce,C. 8., L

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Bellows, GeorgeWesley Belloy,Dormont de Voltaire14 Belmont,August Belmont,Mrs. August Marquand 3 Bembo,Pietro Benchley, Marjorie O'Hara 2 Benchley, Nathaniel Benchley 15 Benchley,Robert Charles O'Hara 2 Ben6t,tilTilliamRose Morley, C., 1 Ben-Gurion,David Eshkol bio Bennett,[Enoch]Arnold Caine1 Herford 5 Shaw,G. 8., 15 Bennett,JamesGordon Benny,Jack Allen, F., bio Burns2 Bentley,Richard Barham2 Pope,Alexander,2 Benton,Thomas Hart A., 6 Jackson, Beresford, Lord Charles Edward VII 1 Bergen,Edgar [fohn] Bergman, Ingrid Bogart bio Hitchcock 2 Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich Berkeley, George Johnsor,S., 1,7 Berkeley, Lennox Boulangr, N., bio Berle,Milton Berlioz,Hector Heine 4 Bernadotte, JeanBaptisteJules Bernard, Tristan Berners,Gerald TyrwhittWilson, l4th Baron Bernhardt, Sarah Bernoulli, Jacques Bernoulli,Jean Newton 10 Bernstein,Henri Bernstein,Leonard Bernstein,Robert Berra, Lawrence["Yogi"] Aaron I Bers,Sonya Tolstoy bio Betterton,Thomas Cibber1 Betty, William Henry West Beuno,Saint Bevan,Aneurin ["Nye"] Bevin1, 3 Bevin,Ernest Bewick, Thomas Bialik, Chaim Nachman Biddle,ColonelJames Edward VII 5 Bilia Gelon 1 Billingsl.y,Sherman 2 Jessel Billington,Elizabeth Haydn 4 Bing, Sir Rudolf Kennedy, I. F., 7 Nilsson 1, 3 Bion Bismarck,Otto Eduard Leopold, Princevon Arnim 1 Virchow bio, 1, tilTilliamI (Prussia) bio Black, Hugo Blacklock, Thomas Hume 3 Blackwell, Alexander Blackwell,Elizabeth Blackwell bio Blake,Catherine Blake,V., I Blake, Eubie fiamesHubert Blakel Blake, William Constable 2 Blakeway, Alan Clark, A. C., I Blanchard, Laman Dickens4 Bland-Sutton, Sir John Blech, Leo Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of Orsay bio Blondel Richard I 1 Blondel,Luisa Azeglio 1 Blondin,Charles Dumaspire 7 Bloomingdale, Alfred Kaufman 7 Bloy, Leon Huysmans1 Blticher,GebhardLeberecht von \Tellington bio

Beckett,Samuel 10 Joyce, James, Beckett,Suzanne Beckett5 Beckett,Thomasi Henri II 1 Beckford, William Becquerel, Henri Curie bio Bee,GeneralBarnard T. J., I Jacksotr, Bee,Clair Luisetti 2 Beebe, Lucius Mellon 1 til(illiam Beebe, Roosevelt, T., 3 Beecham, Thomas Beecham, Sir Thomas Beecham, T., bio Cortot 1 Edward VII 9 HessL Saint-Sadns I Beecher, Henry Ward Beerboh-, Julius Beerbohm, 4 Beerbohm,Sir Max Archer 1 Drew 1 Harris, F., 2 H., I James, Pater 2 Tree bio, 3 Beeston, Sir Hugh Raleigh7 Beethoven, Ludwig van Albert, E., bio Brahms5 Cortot 1 Elman 1 Furnryinglerbio Paderewski 3 Previn2 Schnab el bio \U(ellington 9 Begin, Menachem Behan,Brendan Behrman, S. N. Archer 1 Beerbohm5 Coward 7 Belinsky,Robert ["8o"] Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Joseph Bell, Mabel (Hubbard) Bell,A. G., 2 Belloc, floseph] Hilaire [Pierre] Chesterton5

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Blume,Jody Blumenthal,Oskar Boas,Franz Bogarde,Dirk Bogart,Humphrey Bacallbio, 2 Huston L Bohr, Niels Henrik David Einstein5 Thomson,G., L Nicolas Boileau [-Despr6aux], Boleyn,Anne I bio Elizabeth Bolingbroke,Henry St. John, Viscount Bolt, Tommy Bonaparte, Marie Louise Francisll bio Napoleon.See Bonaparte, NapoleonI Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Asquith,M., 3 Fry 1 BonifaceVIII, Pope Giotto 1 Margueritede Bonnemain, G., 1 Boulangr, Bonner,John de Bonneuil,Countess AlexanderI 1 Boone,Daniel Booth, Edwin Howe, J. V., 1 Booth, John Wilkes Booth,J.8., bio Booth, JuniusBrutus Boothby,R. M., 5 Sargent, Borge, Victor Borges,Jorge Luis Leonor Acevedode Borges, BorgesL PrinceCamillo Borghese, bio Borghese Marie Princess Borghese, Pauline Borgia,Cesare Alexander Yl bio Borgia,Lucrezia AlexanderVI 1 Borgia,Rodrigo.SeeAlexander VI Borodin, Alexander Borromeo,Saint Charles Bosquet,PierreFrangoisJoseph B6nigne Bossuet, Jacques Boswell,James Johnsor,S., bio ll, 13-14, t7-19 rilTilkes 4 Boswell,Margaret Boswell2 Bothwell, Earl of bio Mary, Queenof Scots, Botticelli, Sandro[Alessandro di Mariano Filipepil Bottoml.y, Horatio William Bougainville, Jean-Pierre Duclos 1 General Bougenel, Mathilde 2 Bouhours,Dominique Boulangr,GeorgesErnestJean Marie Nadia fiuliette] Boulangr, Boulay de la Meurthe, Count Antoine NapoleonI 5 Boult, Sir Adrian of Bourbon,Duchess Franklin 9 Bourget,Paul Mugnier 3 Louis Antoine Bourrienne, Fauvelet de NapoleonI 5 Bowen, ElizabethDorothea Cole Bowen, Louise de Koven Bowles,William Lisle Bowra, C. Maurice GladstoneL Boyle,Kay Lowell, A., 4 Bradford, John Bradley, Henry Brady, William A. Brahe,Tycho Kepler bio Brahms,Johannes Biilow bio Richter bio Braithwaite,Dame [Florence] Lilian Brakhage,Stan Bramante Raphaelbio Branca,Ralph Thomson,R., I Brancusi,Constantin John, 2 Joyce, Modigliani bio Brandeis,Louis Dembitz Brando,Marlon Graziano 2 Brandt, Willy Brantley, John rU7ashington 4 Braque,Georges

INDEX

OF NAMES

bio Picasso Brawne,Fanny Keats bio Bremer,Fredrika F., 2 Kemble, Catherine Breshkovskaya, Breuer, Josef Freudbio Brian Boru De Valera4 Briand, Aristide Bridger,Jim Bridges,Robert Bright, John Disraeli13 Bright, R. Goulding Shaw,G. B., 4 Brillat-Savarin,Anthelme Brin, Admiral 1 \Tilliam II (Germany), Arthur Brisbane, Hearst 3 de Duc and Duchesse Brissac, NapoleonI 8 Britannicus Nero bio, 1 Britten, Benjamin Plomerbio Brodie, Sir BeniaminCollins Brodie, Steve Brodie, William Broglie,Louis Victor, Princede Thomson,G., bio Bromfield,Louis Goldwyn 15 Bront,Anne BrontE bio Brontd,Branwell Bront bio Bront, Charlotte Bront6,Emily Bronte bio Brooke,Alan Montgomery,B. L.r 2 Brooke,Rupert Firbank2 Sitwell,G. R., 2 Brookfield, CharlesHallam Elton Brooks,Emily Margaret Frith 1 Brooks,Mel Brooks, Phillips Brooks,Van lU7yck Webster, D., 8
Broughflffi, Lady

Edward VII 7 Broughoffi, Lord Cunard2

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Bunn,John Luisetti 1 Bunsen,Robert Wilhelm Kirchhoff bio Bufruel,Luis Dali 1 Burbage, Richard Shakes peare 2 Burdett,Sir Francis Russell, J., I Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Victoria 1,4 Burghley, Sfilliam Cecil,Lord Coke 1 Spenser 1 Burgoyne, John Stark 1 Burke, Edmund Reynol ds bio Sheridar, R. B., 9-10 Burke,Maud. SeeCunard, Emerald, Lady Burnett, Carol Burney,Charles Handel2 Burns,Arthur Eisenhower 3 Burns, George Benny3 Ziegfeld 1 Burr, Aaron Hamilton bio Marshall,J., bio Burton,IsabelArundell Burton,Sir R., bio, 2 Burton, Richard Lawson1 Taylor,8., bio Burton, Sir Richard Busby,Richard Busch,Fritz Butler, BenjaminFranklin Butler, Henry Montagu Butler,NicholasMurray Addamsbio Boas1 Kelland2 Butler, Richard Austen ["Rab"] Churchill,W., 34 Butler, Samuel Liszt 1 Butterworth,Charles Benchley 7 BuzzelLCharles Millay 1 Byrg, John Byrd, William Byron, GeorgeGordon, Lord Bowlesbio Lamb, Carolin e, bio Lewis,M. G., 1 Melbourne bio Shelley, M., 1, Cabell,JamesBranch Cadbury,Elizabeth Cadbury1 Cadbury,George Caen,Herbert Eugene Caesar, GaiusJulius Augustus bio Cicero bio, 2 Murray, Sir George,1 William I 1 Cagliostro,Alessandro Cagney, James Caine,Hall Calhern,Louis Chase, I., I Calhoun,John C. Clay,H., 5 Caligula[GaiusCaesar] Callas,Maria Bing 9-10 Gabor3 Onassi s bio Callisthenes Diogenes 3 Calverley,CharlesStuart Calvin,John Sumner1 Cambridge,GeorgeWilliam FrederickCharles,2d Duke of Cambronne,Pierre-Jacques, Baron de Cambyses II CyrusII 1 Camden,tUfilliam Stubbs, J., 1 Cameron, Julia Margaret Cameron, Donald Cameronof Lochiel 1 Cameron, Sir Simon Dana 1 Stevens 2 Cameronof Lochiel,Sir Ewan Campbell, Alan Parker, D., 5, 17 \(/oollc ott 2 Campbell,Donald Campbell, Lady Jeanne Luce,C. B., 1 Campbell, Sir Malcolm Campbell, D., bio
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick [Beatrice Stella Campb ell, nde

Broughtffi, Henry Peter,Baron Brougham and Vaux Broun, [Matthew] Heywood Campbell Marx, C., 3 Brown, Charles Armitage Keats1, 2 Brown, John Mason Brown, Sir Thomas Gosse bio Browne, Lewis Brownirg, ElizabethBarrett Brownitrg,R., bio, 3 Brownirg, Oscar Tennyson5 Brownirg, Robert Brownitrg,E. 8., bio, I Jerrold 1 Bruce,David Donovan I Bruce,Harold Anson Thorpe 3 Bruce,James Brummell, GeorgeBryan ["Beau"] Brunelleschi, Filippo Columbus 2 Victoria 9 Bruno, Giordano Brutus,MarcusJunius Caesar 5, 10 Bryan,Bear Namath 1 Bryan, William Jennings Buchanan, James Buchwald,Art Mitford, N., 2 Buck,Jack Berra5 Buckingham,GeorgeVilliers, 2d Duke of Buckland, William Buckley,William F[rank] Galbraith 1 Buddha,Gautama Hideyoshi1 Bud6,Guillaume Budge,J. Donald Buffalmacco,Buonamico Bull, John Bull, Steve Nixon 8 Buller, Sir Redvers Henry Bullitt, William Steffens 1 Btilow, Cosimavon Biilow bio Biilow, FlansGuido, Baron von Liszt bio

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Tanner] Barrymore, J., 3 Shaw,G. B., 8 Campbell,Thomas Cane,Facino Canfield,Cass BalsanL Canfield,Michael Kennedyr l. F., 3 Canning,George Cannon,CorneliaJames B. Cannon,\U(alter Cannon bio Canova,Antonio 1. Borghese Cantor, Eddie Durante L Canute [Cnut] Capa,Robert Capone,Al Capra,Frank Cohn 4 Capus,Alfred Cardano,Girolamo Cardozo,Beniamin Carleton, Henry Guy Carlos I, King of Portugal Carlson,Tom Nash,O., I Carlyle,JaneS7elsh Carlylebio, 4 Carlyle,Thomas Babbage2 Camerotr, J. M., 1 Emerson bio, 3 Fuller,Margaret,1 Lord Carmarthen, Foote 5 Carne,Michael Gabin bio Andrew Carnegie, Morgatr,J. P., 7 Carol II, King of Rum ania Caroline,Duchesse de Berri Carolineof Ansbach Carolineof Brunswick GeorgelY bio Caroto, Giovanni Francesco Carpendale, Charles Boult 1 Carrington,Dora Strachey 3 Carroll, James Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgsonl Carroll, Madeleine Hitchcock 8 Carson,Johnny Mountbatten 2 Carswell,G. Harrold Hruska L Carter, A*y Carter t, 3-4 Carter, Jimmy 4 Reagan Carter, Rosalynn Carter 2 Carteret, Lady Swift 5 Cartland, Barbara Cartwright, Peter Lincoln,A., 9 Caruso,Enrico Chaplin4 Louis,J., 3 1 Schumann-Heink Tetrazzini 1 Carvaial, John de FerdinandIV 1 Cawajal, Peterde FerdinandIV 1 Carver, GeorgeWashington Pablo Casals, Thibaud bio GiovanniGiacomo Casanova, Voltaire 10 Case, Frank Faulkner3 Casement, Sir Roger Srnith,F. 8., bio AlexanderJ. Cassatt, Westinghouse 1 Cassatt,Mary Casson, Sir Lewis Thorndike 2 Castiglione,Nicchia Countessdi Castlerosse, Valentine Browne, Lord Castracani,Castruccio Fidel Castro, 's7eissmuller 2 Robert Catesby, Fawkes1" Cather,Villa Faulkner5 Catherineof Aragon Boleynbio, 1 Cranm er bio Henry Ylll bio Latimerbio Mary I bio CatherineII [Catherinethe Greatl AlexanderI 1 Diderot 1 Cato [the Censor] Catton, [Charles] Bruce Fuseli1

INDEX

OF NAMES

Cavalieri,Lina Chaloner1 Cavell, Edith Louisa Bellows1 Henry Cavendish, Herschel1 F. A. Cazals, VerlaineL Cecil,Lord David Asquith,M., 4 H., I James, Cecil, William Cerf, Bennett Edman3 La Guardia 1. Miguel de CervantesSaavedra, Cetewayo Paul C1zanne, Fry 1 Modigliani bio Chaffee,Nancy Kiner L Chagall,Marc Korda 5 Chagall,Mme Korda 5 Chain, Ernst Fleming, A., bio Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich Thomas Chalmers, Aubign6 1 Chaloner,John Armstrong Chamberlain,[Arthur] Neville bio Churchill,'W., Halifax, E., bio Chamberlain,Joseph Chamberlain,Sir [foseph] Austen Chamberlain,Wilt Russell, Bill, 2 Champm6l6, Marie Desmares Racine1 Chanel,Coco [GabrielleChanel] Channirg, Carol Gielgud4 Channon,Henry ("Chips") Cunard 1 Chapin,CharlesE. Cobb 1 Chaplin, Charlie Doyle 1 Shor 3 Chapman,John Chapman,John Jay Charlemagne Charles,Princeof Wales Diana bio, I I of Ausria Charles Otto bio

INDEX

OF NAMES

668
Chaulnes, Duc de Beaumarchais 1 Chauvelin, M. de Louis XV 5 Chegodieff,Prince Yusupov 1 Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich Cherubini, Maria Luigi Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Heidegger1 Chesterton, 'S7est, Cecil R., 2 Chesterton, G[ilbert] K[eith] Dickens7 '$7est, R., 2 Chevalier,Maurice Susann 3 ChiangKai-shek Luce,H. R., I Chigi, Agostino Chigi, Fabio Marie de M6dicis 1 Chilly, CharlesMarie de Bernha rdt 2 Choate,JosephHodges Reed 1 Cholmondley,Lord Bottomley 1 Chopin, Fr6d6ric Adams,Ansel, L Cortot bio Field,1., bio Pachmann bio, 2 Rubinstein, Arthur, bio ChristianIX, King of Denmark Maria Fddorovnabio Christian X, King of Denmark Christie, Dame Agatha Gabor 3 Christie,John Christina, Queenof Sweden Descartes bio, I Churchill, Clementine Churchill,W., 4 de Gaulle 1 Churchill, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Acheson2 Churchill,W., 35 tU7augh L Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, Sarah Churchill,UI., 27 Churchill, Sir Winston Acheson2 Astor, N., 2, 5 Ben-Gurion,David, 1 Bevin bio Churchill,R. F. E. 5., bio Churchill, R. H.5., bio Clemen ceau7 de Gaulle2 Grey 2 Herbert L Lindemannbio, 1. Montgomery,B. L., bio Onassi s bio Pfitain 2 Smith,F. E., 5 Stalin2 Taylor, M., I tUfavell1 Chwolson, Daniel Abramovich. Ciano, Count Galeazzo Churchill,W., 27 Cibber, Colley Cicero,Marcus Tullius Caesar 5 Clark, A. C., bio Cimabue, Giovanni Giotto 2 Cimon Cinque,Joseph Claire, Ina Clairmont,Claire Shelley, M., I Clarence, Duke of . See William IV Clark, Afibert] C[urtis] Clark, Bobby Connelly2 Clark, Sir CasparPurdon Morgan 4 Clark, GeorgeRogers Clark, Sir James Victoria 8 Clark, Mark Wayne Clarke, CharlesCowden Barham2 Clarke, Creston Field,E., I Claudel,Paul Gide 1 Claudius, Emperor Agrippina bio Nero bio, 1, Clay,Cassius. Ali, See Muhammad Clay, Cassius Marcellus,Sr. Clay, Henry C l a y ,C . M . , I Reed2 Clemenceau, Georges Paderewski 5 Clemens, JamesRoss Twain 14

CharlesI, King of England Coke bio Cromwellbio, 1,4 Davenantbio Davies, E., I Denham 1 Holles bio, I Jonson1 Milton bio,2 Quin 1 Shaftesbury bio Vlaller bio Charles[, Kirg of England Buckinghambio, I BusbyL Davenantbio Dryden bio Gwyn 1 Shaftesbury bio, 2 \ilfaller bio, I CharlesII, King of Spain Philip Y bio, I CharlesV, King of Spain CharlesV, Holy Roman Emperor FrancisI bio CharlesX, King of France Caroline,Duc[resse de Berri, bio Michelet 1 CharlesXII, King of Sweden OscarII 1 CharlesXIII, King of Sweden Bernad otte bio CharlesFerdinand,Duc de Berri Caroline,Duchesse de Berri, bio, 1 CharlesFrancisJosephfCharles I of Austrial Charlotte of MecklenburgStrelitz Charolais,Comte de Louis XV 3 Charondas Chase,Ilka Chase,SalmonPortland Chasins, Abram Paderewski 5 Chastellux,Frangois Jeande Necker 1 Chateaubriand,FrangoisRen6, Vicomte de Chatelet,Mme du Voltaire bio Chatfield,Alfred, 1st Baron Beatty 1 Chatham,Earl of Pitt bio Chatterton, Thomas

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Clemens, Olivia Langdon Twain 4, 5, 8, 12, 18 Samuel. SeeTwain, Clemens, Mark SusyL. Clemens, Twain 8 ClementVII, Pope 2 Michelangelo Cleveland,FrancesFolsom G., I Cleveland, Grover Cleveland,[Stephen] F., bio Cleveland, Lamar bio F. D., 1 Roosevelt, Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey Clodius,Publius 2 Caesar Clurman, Harold Coates,Robert M. Ross10 Cobb, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Alexander Cochrane, A., 3 Jackson, Cockcroft, Sir John Thomson,G., L Cocteau,Jean Chanel3 2,3 Diaghilev Coghill, Nevill Lewis,C. S.,2 Cohalan,Daniel F. I7ilson,'W.,4 Cohan, GeorgeM. Cohen, Morris Raphael Cohn, Harry Mankiewicz I Marx, G., 9 Cohn, Jack Cohn 214 Coke,Desmond Ouida 1 Coke, Sir Edward Colbert, Claudette Coward 11 Cole, Dr. Harry Coleridge,SamuelTaylor bio Emerson Green, J. H., bio 8 Lamb, Charles, Wordsworth bio rUfilliam Coleridge, Bowlesbio Colette [SidonieGabrielleClaudine Colettel Collins, Joan Collins, Michael Collins, tU7ilkie Lytton L Colte,Jane More, T., I Colte,John More, T., 1 Colum, Mary Hemingway4 Columbus,Christopher tU7ilde 3 Comte, Auguste Compton, Arthur Fermi 2 ConanDoyle.SeeDoyle Conant,JamesBryant Fermi 2 rU7hiteh ead2 Condorcet,Marie Jean Antoine de Caritat, Marquis de Confucius Congreve,William Gossebio Hyde, C., bio Conn, Billy Louis,J., 1, 5 Connelly, Marc Kaufman 8 Connolly, Cyril Conrad,Barnaby Coward 14 1 Margaret, Princess, Conrad,Joseph Caine 1 Mencken L Constable,John the Constantine[Constantine Greatl LearieNicholas, Constantine, Baron Conti, PrinceLouis-Armand II de Cook, Thomas Cooke, Alistair Eden,A., 1 Stevenson, A. 8., 4 Coolidge,[John] Calvin Hoover L, 3 Coolidge,Mrs. Calvin Coolidge5, 9-I0, 14 Cooper,Alfred Duff (Viscount Norwich) Cooper,D., bio,2-3 Cooper, Lady Diana Coward 5 ElizabethII 4 Lowell, R., 1 Cooper,Doris Cooper,Gladys,I Cooper,Duff Lowell, R., 1 Cooper, Gary

INDEX

OF NAMES

Cooper, Dame Gladys Coote L Cooper, Sir William Cooper,Lady (Mrs. tU7illiam) Cooper,W., 1 Coote, Robert Cope, Edward Drinker Copeland,CharlesTownsend Copernicus, Nicolaus Galileo bio Kepler bio Copland, Aaron Boulangr, N., bio Copley,John Singleton Fuseli1 Lyndhurst bio Copp6e,FrangoisEdouard Joachim Corbet, Richard Corbett,Jim Brodie,S., 1 Corday, Charlotte Corelli, Franco Nilsson 1 Corelli, Marie Victoria ll Corneille,Pierre Dumaspire I Rachel3 Corneille,Thomas Dumaspire I Cornelia Cornwallis,GeneralCharles, lst Marquis \U(Iashin gton bio Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corrigan, Douglas Cortez,Hernando Charles V of Spain2 Cortot, Alfred Thibaud 1 CosimoIII, Archduke Fagiuoli 1 Costello,Lou Coster,Dirk Hevesy, Georg,bio Cottin, Emile Clemenceau 10 Courteline,Georges[Georges Moineaux] Courtneidge,Dame Cicely Coward, Sir Nol Churchill,R. F. E. S., I Elizabeththe QueenMother 7 Olivier bio, 2 Ross14 West, R., 3 Cowdray, Lord Poole1

INDEX

OF NAMES

670
1 Castlerosse Moore, G. A.r 4 Cunctator,Quintus Fabius Hannibal bio Cunningham, J. If. Trollop, F., 1, CunninghameGraham, Robert Bontine Curchod,Suzanne. SeeNecker, Suzanne Curie, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie bio Curley, JamesMichael Curran,C. P. Joyce,James,3 Curran, John Philpot Roche2 Curtiz, Michael Curzon, Lord l,loyd George5 Cushman,Charlotte Cuvier, GeorgesL6opold, Baron Cuzzoni,Francesca Handel 3 Cyrus II [Cyrus the Great] Cambyses II bio Cyrus of Panopolis Czolgosz, Leon McKinley 2 Dahlgren, Mrs. J. H. Lamar L Dahn, Felix Dale, Valentine ElizabethI 3 Dali, Gala Dali 4 Dali, Salvador Niarchos L Dalton, Hugh BevanL Churchill,W., 24 Dalton, John Daly, Augustin Rehanblo Dana, Richard Henry Daniel, Clifton Gulbenkian3 Lillie 8 D'Annunzio, Gabriele Dusebio Dante Alighieri Blake,\1., bio Giotto 3 Vega 1 Danton, Georges Jacques Darius, King of Persia AlexanderIII 5 Darius I, King of Persia Darnley, Lord Mary, Queenof Scots,bio Darrow, ClarenceSeward Darwin, CharlesRobert Agassizbio Darwin, E., bio Huxley, T. H., bio, I Darwin, Emma Darwin,C., 2 Darwin, Erasmus Daudet,Alphonse Daumier,Honor6 Corot L Davenant,Sir William Davenpoft,Guy Barnes1, David, Sir Edgeworth Davidson, Jo Gandhi,M., 4 Davies,Lady Eleanor Davies,Sir John Davies,8., bio Davies,Marion Hearst4 Parker,D., I Davies,Peter Barrie 5 Davies, Tom Boswell 1 da Vin ci. SeeLeonardoda Vinci Davis, Bette \ilarner 3 Davis, George Sttrhldreher L Davis,Jefferson Lincoln,A., 19 Davis,Sam Duse L Davy, Sir Humphry Faradaybio Dawes,CharlesGates Fletcher1 Dawson,Lord Asquith,M., 4 Dawson,Joe De PalmaL Day, Dr. Kelvin 1 Dayan, Moshe Dayrolles, Solomon Chesterfield 5 Dean, Jay Hanna f"Dizzy"f Dean,Paul Dean bio Debs,EugeneVictor Debussy, Claude Bart5k 1 Maeterlinck bio

Cowell, Henry Ruggles1 Cowl, Jane Cox, ChanningH. Coolidge4 Cox, JacobD. Sherman 2 Crabbe,George Melbourne4 Cramm, Baron Gottfried von Budge1 Cranmer, Thomas Cole bio Crawford, Cheryl Clurman 1 Crawford, Joan Creighton,Bishop Butler 4 Crescendi, Girolamo Grassini1 Crick, Francis Avery bio Cripps, Sir Stafford Churchill, W., 25 Crockett, Davy Crockford, William Croesus Croll, James Cromwell, Oliver Aubign6 bio Carolineof Ansbach1 Holles &ro \U7aller bio, I Cromwell, Thomas Henry VIII 2 Crosby,Bing [Harry Lillis] Hope bio Crosby,Caresse Joyce,John, 2 Crosby,Harry Joyce,John, 2 Crouse,Russel Graziano 2 O'Neill 2 Cukor, GeorgeDewey Culbertson, Ely Culpeper,Thomas Howard, C., 1 Cumberland,Duke of Foote 2 Cumberland,Richard Sheridao, R. 8., 12 Cummings,E[dward] Elstlin] Barnes1 Cummings,Marion Cummings1 Cunard, Emerald,Lady Maugham2 Moore, G. A.r 4 Cunard, Nancy

6 71
Satie2 Toscanini10 Degas,[Hilaire Germain]Edgar Cassattbio de Gaulle,Anne de Gaulle5 de Gaulle, CharlesAndr6 JosephMarie Churchill,W., 24 Kennedy, J. F., 13 Montgomery,B. L., 1" Palewskibio P1tain 2 A. 8., 6 Stevenson, de Gaulle,Yvonne de Gaulle5, 10-12 Dfiiazet, Pauline Virginie de la Mare, Walter Delibes,Leo 1 Hellmesberger De Lisio, Mike Auden 2 Delon,Alain Burton, R., 1 De Moivre, Abraham Demosthenes Dempsey, Jack lWilliam Harrison] Denbigh,Earl of Denham, Sir John Denis, Marie-Louise Denis,Saint du Deffand 1 Dennis,John DePalma,Ralph
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell Choate 3-4 Smith, F. E., 9 Derby, Lord George V 5 Dereham, Francis Howard, C., L Descartes, Ren6 Fonten elle bio Deschanel, Paul Clemenceau 4 de Seversky, Alexander Procofieff Deslion, Anna Napoleoh, J. C. P., 1. Desnos, Robert Picasso 1.5 Detourbey, Jeanne De Valera, Eamon de Valois, Dame Ninette Baylis bio de Vere, Edward Elizabeth I 2 Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of

INDEX

OF NAMES

Baldwin 3 Gibbon2 De Vries, Peter Ross11 Dewey,Fred Dewey,J., 1, Dewey,John Dewey,ThomasE. Dewey,Mrs. T. E., bio, I Gallup 1 Longworth 2 Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E. E. Hutt] [Frances de tU7ilde, Brandon Lillie 5 de Wolfe, Elsie Astor, N., 1 Diaghilev,Sergei[Pavlovich] Bakst bio, 1 au bio Cockte Karsavinabio Monteux bio Nijinskybio,2 Stravinsky bio of Wales fnde Diana, Princess Spencer] Cartland L e, bio Charles,Princ Dickens,Charles Anders en 2 Carlyle 5 Forsterbio tU7ilde 9 Dickens, John Dickens1 Dickinson,Charles A., 1 Jackson, Dickinson,Emily Coolidge7 Diderot, Denis Alembertbio Dietrich, Marlene [Maria Magdalenevon Losch] Dietz, Howard Digby, Sir Everard Dillinghaffi, Charles Houdini 2 DiMaggio, Joseph Diogenes Antisthenes2 Plato 3 Dionysiusthe Elder Aristippus 2-3 DionysiusI DionysiusII bro DionysiusII Diophantus Fermat 1 Dirichlet, PeterGustav Leieune Disney,Walt[er Elias]

Disraeli,Beniamin,1st Earl of Beaconsfield Bismarck8 Devonshire 1 Gladstonebio Mill 1 Napoleon,E. L. J. J., 3 tUfilkes5 Disraeli,Mary Anne Disraeli3-4 Divine, Father Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dixwell, Mrs. HolmeS, J., 2 Dmitri, Grand Duke Romanoff 1 Doane,William Croswell Twain 15 Dodds,E. R. Yeats 1 Dodge, Mary Mapes Doherty, John Dolin, Anton Bakst 1 Donaldson,Frances Lonsdale2 Donat, Robert Hitchcock 8 Donatello Donne,John Gossebio Donovan, William Joseph ["\rild Bill"] Dooley, Thomas Anthony Dorset,CharlesSackville Dryden 3 Dorsey,Jimmy Goodman 1 Dos Passos, John Faulkner5 Double d^y, Frank 4 Carnegie Douglas,Lord Alfred tUfildebio, 13 Douglas,Charles Hyde, C., bio A. Douglas,Stephen Lincoln,A., 10-11, 13 SewardL Douglas-Home. SeeHome Douglass,Frederick Douro, Lord \U7ellington 13 Dowson, Ernest I7ilde 15 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Bell,J., bio Drake, Sir Francis Drake,John GatesL

INDEX OF NAMES

572
Durocher,Leo Shor 2 Duse,Eleonora Duval, Claude Duveen,Henry Morgan I Duveen,Joseph,Baron Duveen of Millbank Morgan I Dvoi6k, Anronin Richter2 Dvorsky,Michael Hofmann bio Dyson, Sir Cyril Eaton,John A., 5 Jackson, Eaton,Peggy A., 5 Jackson, Eckermann, JohannPeter Goethe5 E{dington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddy, Mary Baker Eden,[Robert] Anthotry, lst Earl of Avon Churchill,R. F. E. S.,4 Eden bio Khrushchev2 Eden,Sir William Edison,Charles r Edison,ThomasAlva Edison, C., bio ; Edman, Irwin Edward I, King of England Robert I I EdwardII, King of England EdwardI 1 Edward III bio RobertII bia Edward III, King of England Henry IY bio EdwardVI, King of England and lreland Cardano1 Cole bio Mary I bio Edward WI, King of the United Kingdom Alexandra bio, 1. Campbell, Mrs. P., 2 CarlosI 1 GeorgeV 1 Langtry bio, l Latime r bio Sargent, J. S., I Victoria 10 Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom Baldwi n bio Elizabeth the QueenMother bio GeorgeV 5 GeorgeYI bio Ross14 I7oollc ott 6 Edward the Black Prince Edward I 1 Edward lll 2 Edward the Confessor S7illiamI (England)bio Edwards, Blake Sellers 3 Egerton, Sir Thomas Donne 1, Einstein,Albert Chaplin 1 Schweitzer 5 Szilardbio Einstein,Elsa (Mrs. Albert) 'l,l-12, Einstein 17 Eisenhower, Dwight David Bing 4 Dulles blo Kennedy, J. F., 12 Lincoln,A., 10 Ir{acArthur,D., 3 Nixon bio, 1, 3 Patton2 Stevens on bio, 2, 4 Wilson,C. E., I Eisenhower, Julie Meir 2 Eldon, Lady GeorgeIII 3 Knox, R., 5 Eldon, Lord GeorgeIII 3 Eleanorof Aquitaine Henry ll bio Hepbu rn 2 Elgar,Sir Edward Kreisle r bio Eliot, CharlesWilliam rU7hiteh ead2 Eliot, John Eliot, T[homas]S[tearns] Acton 1 Elisabeth, Queenof Belgium ElizabethI, Queen of England and Ireland Bacon2, 3 Bull 1 Cole bio, I Dale 1 Drake bio Gladstone 3 I bio James Mary, Queenof Scot s, bio

Dreiser,Theodore Drew, John Dreyfus,Alfred Francebio Dreyschock, Alexander Drogheda, Countess of S7ycherley 1 Dryden,John du Barry, Marie JeanneB6cu, Comtesse Duchitel, Comte Rachel4 Duckett, Al Horne 1 Duclos,CharlesPinot du Deffand,Marie Anne, Marquise Dudley, John William Ward, lst Earl of Metternich,K., I Rogers, S., 3 Duff, Lady Juliet Nifinsky 2 Dufferin, Lord MacDonald 1 Duke, Vernon fVladimir Dukelskyl Dulles,John Foster Dumas,Adolphe Dumaspire I Dumas,Alexandrelpirel Dumas, Alexandre tfilsl Dumaspire 2 Peard1 Rachel5 Dumas,Ida Dumas fils 3 Dumfries,Countess of Taylor,J., I Duncan,David Douglas Picasso 17 Duncan,Isadora D'Annunzio 1, Shaw,G. 8., 9 Tamiris 1 Dunsany,Edward John Moreton Drax Plunket, 18th Baron Duperr6,Baron Victor Guy Mathilde 2 Du Pont,PierreS. Coolidge 6 Du Pont, Thomas Coleman Duquesnel, Felix Bernha rdt 2 Durante,Bartolomeo Durante3 Durante,Jimmy ["Schnozzola,'f Lederer1

573
Raleighbio, l-2, 4, 6 peare4 Shakes Spenser 1 Stubbs1 Elizabeth II, Queenof the United Kingdom Anne, Princes s, bio Charles, Prince,bio Churchill,Ul., 26 Coolidge11 Elizabeth the Queen Mother bio, 4-s Hartnell bio Margaret,Princess, bio Philip, Prince,bio, I Elizabeththe QueenMother GeorgeYl bio, 3 Hartnell bio Ellenborough, Edward Law, lst Baron Napier 1" Ellington, Duke Fitzgerald, 8., bio Ruth 4 Elliot, Hugh Elliston, Robert William Ellsworth,Annie Morse 1 Elman, Mischa Godowsky 1 Kreisler3 Emerson,Ralph Waldo Dodge L Thoreau4 Empedocles Enesco,Georges Engels,Friedrich Engheim, Louis Antoine Henri de BourbonCond6,duc d' NapoleonI 5 Englund,George Collins,J., 1 Ennius,Quintus ScipioNasicaSerapio1 Epictetus Epstein,Sir Jacob Epstein, Joseph tU7augh 5-5 Erasmus,Desiderius Eric the Red Erne,Lord Norbury 3 Erskine,John Erskine,Thomas, lst Baron Esher,Lord Alexandra 1 Eshkol, Levi Esparb6s, Mme d' Louis XV 1 Esposito,Phil Essex, Earl of Elizabeth I bio Este,Alfonso d' Alexander VI 1 Este,Borso d' Esterhdzy, Prince Haydn 2 Euclid Pascal1 Eugdnie Castiglione bio Euler, Leonhard Diderot 1 Euripides Porsonbio, 2 Eusebius of Caesarea Constantine[the Great] | Evans,Sir Arthur [John] Evans,Dame Edith Coward 8 Gielgud 1 Thorndike 3 Evans,Peter Sellers 4 Evarts,William Maxwell Hayes,R. 8., L Everett,Edward Ewell, Richard S. T. J., 3 Jacksotr, Fabian ShawG , ,8.r 26 Fadiman,Clifton Dali 3 Durante2 Goldwyn 15 Gunther 1,2 Kaufman 6 Rubinstein, Arthur, 1 Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista Fairbanks,Douglas FaisalIbn Abdul Aziz Falla, Manuel de FalliEres, [Clement]Armand GeorgeV 1 Fangio,Juan Manuel Faraday,Michael Farouk I Nasserbio Farquhar,Sir Walter Farragut,David Glasgow Faulkner,William Anders on bio Hemingway6 Faur6,Gabriel Urbain Favras, ThomasdeMahay, Marquis de

INDEX

OF NAMES

Fawkes,Guy Felecki Molndr 3 F6lix, Elisa.SeeRachel Ferber,Edna Coward 4 Ferdinand, King of Spain Columbusbio FerdinandI, Emperor of Austria FerdinandI, King of Bulgaria FerdinandIV, King of Castile FergusI, King of Scotland Gardner, I. S.,2 Fergusson, George,Lord Hermand Fermat, Pierrede Fermi, Enrico Rabi 1 Szilard1 Fernandel[FernandJosephD6sir6 Contandinl Ferrara,Duke of AlexanderVI 1 Ferrell,Robert H. Truman 7 Michael Festing, Arne 1 F6tis,Frangois-Joseph Rossini2 Feydeau, Georges Field, Eugene Field, John Field, Marshall, III Fielding,Henry T. Fields, James Thackeray1 Fields, W. C. fU7illiam Claude Dukenfieldl Connelly2 Fier,Jack tU7elles 2 Fifield,rU7illiam Cocteau4 Marceau 1 Fillmore, Millard Firbank, Ronald Fisher,Eddie Kaufman2l Fisher,Sir Admiral John M"ry, QueenConsort, I Fiske,Jim Vanderbilt, C., 3 Fiske,Minnie Maddern Fitzgerald,Ella Fitzgerald, F[rancis]Scott [Key] Campbell, Mrs. P., 5 Fitzgerald, 2., bio, I Hemingway4 Parker,D., 15

INDEX OF NAMES

674
Ford,Jack ElizabethII 5 Ford, John Fordyce,George Forgy, Howell Maurice Forrest,Nathan Bedford Forster,John Fosdick,Harry Emerson Foster,Lady Elizabeth Gibbon 2 Foster,StephenCollins Fouch6, Jacques AlexanderI 1 Fouch6, Joseph,Duc d'Otrante NapoleonI 5 Fouiita Noailles1 Fowler, Gene Cooper,Gary, 1. Fox, CharlesJames Selwyn2 Sheridatr, R. B., 10 Thurlow bio Fox, George Fraguier,Claude FranEois France,Anatole Harris, F., 1 FrancisI, King of France Charles V (Spain)1 Henry VIII 1 FrancisII, Holy Roman Emperor FrancisII, King of France Mary, Queenof Scots, bio FrancisFerdinand,Archduke of Austria FrancisJosephbio FrancisJoseph,Emperor of Austria CharlesI (Austria) bio Dreyschock1 Ferdina nd I bio FrancisFerdinand bio Schwarzenberg bio Francisof Assisi,Saint Franck,James 1 Oppenheimer Franco,Francisco Frangois d'Orl6ans, Princede Joinville Rachel1 Franiu,Georges Godard 1 Frank,Philipp Einstein3 Franken,Rose Golden 1 Franklin, Beniamin T., 3 Jefferson, Paine1 Pringle1 Franks,Sir Oliver Shewell di Frasso, Countess Cooper,Gary, L (Victoria) Frederick, theEmpress of Prussia Victoria "l,l FrederickII [Frederickthe Greatl Bach,C. P. E., 1 Franklin 5 Elliot 1 Euler bio FredericktUfilliamL a bio Maria Theres Voltaire bio FrederickAugustusI, King of Saxony NapoleonI 4 11 Talleyrand FrederickWilliam I, King of Prussia FrederickX7illiam,Crown Prince Pdtain1 FrederickWilliam IV, King of Prussia French,David Chester Emerson 5 Freud, Sigmund Frick, Henry Clay Friedman, Benny Nagurski 2 Frisco,Joe Frith, Isabelle Frith 1 Frith, William Powell Frohman,Charles Barrymore, J., 3 Frost,David Nixon 9 Perot 1 Frost, Robert Lee Thomas,lP.l E., bio Fry, Roger Fugger, Johann Fuller, Margaret,Marchioness d'Ossoli Peabody bio Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fullerton,Villiam 1 Shelburne Fulton, Robert Furtwingler, Wilhelm Prokofiev1, Fuseli,Henry [fohann Heinrich Ftisslil

Fitzgerald, Zelda F. 5., bio Fitzgerald, Fitzsimmons,Robert Flaherty, Robert Flaman,Fernie Henry, C., 1 Flanner,Janet Flaubert,Gustave Fleetwood,Sir William Fleming,Sir Alexander Shor 1 Fleming,Ian Fletcher,Grace \7ebster,D., 5 Fletcher,Henry Prather Fletcher, John Beaumontbio Coward 8 Keats3 Florey,Sir Howard Fleming,A., bio Flynn, Errol Curtiz l-z Foch, Ferdinand Fokine,Michel Bernhardt13 Diaghilev bio Foley,Admiral Victoria 13 Fonda,Henry Fontaine, Joan Cohn I Fontanne,Lynn Connelly2 Lunt bio, l, 2, 3 Fontenelle, Bernard de du Deffand bio Voltaire7, ll Fonteyn,Dame Margot Foote,Henry S. Benton2 Foote,Samuel Garrick 1 Wilkes 5 Forain,Jean-Louis Degasl, 3 Forbes, Bryan Evans, E., 5 Ford, Betty Elizabeth II 5 Ford, Edsel DuveenI Ford, Gerald R. Elizabeth II 5 Nixon bio Reagan 4 Ford, Henry Duveen5 Edison , T., 7

675
Gabin, Jean Gable,Clark Faulkner5 Goldwyn t2 Thalberg3 Gabor, Eva Coward 14 Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gainsborough,Thomas Gaisford, Thomas Galbraith, John Kenneth Galen Galento,Tony Louis,I., 4 Galiani, Abb6 Ferdinando Raynal 1 Galileo [GalileoGalilei] Galli-Curci, Amelita Grange 1" Gallup, peorge Horace Galois, Evariste Galvani, Luigi Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand fMahatma] Halifax, E., bio Garbo, Greta [Greta Louisa Gustafsson] Garcia,Manuel Malibran bio Gardner,Erle Stanley Gardner,IsabellaStewart ["Mrs. Jack"] Garfield,JamesAbram Lincoln, R. T., I Garibaldi,Giuseppe Peardbio, I RochefortL Garland,Judy [Frances Gumm] Hayward bio Garner,John Nance Garrickr'David Arne 2 Foote 8 S., 19, 24 Johnsoo, Reynol ds bio rU7offin gton bio Garrison,C. K. Vanderbilt,C., 1 Garrison, William Lloyd Garrod, HeathcoteWilliam Garth, Sir Samuel Pope,Alexander,I Garvey,RichardC. Coolidge5 Gates,John Warne Gatti-C as^zz^,Giulio Gaucher,Lolotte Albemarle1 Gauguin,Paul Fry1 Gaulle, de.Seede Gaulle Gauss,Karl Friedrich Gaxton, I7illiam Kaufman L Gty, John Hyde, C., bio Gehrig, [Henry] Lou[is] Gelon Genet.SeeFlanner,Janet Geoffrin, Marie-Th6rdse George,Grace Brady bio George,Mlle (Marguerite-Josephine Weimar) rUfellington L5 GeorgeI, King of Great Britain and Ireland Bolingbroke bio GeorgeII, King of Great Britain and Ireland Carolineof Ansbachbio, 2 Chesterfield bio FrederickWilliam I 2 Pope,Alexander,3 Selwyn3 tU7ashin gton 2 rUfolfe2 GeorgeIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland Burke bio Charlottebio Franklin 5 GeorgeIY bio Gibbon 3 Hancock 1 Hersch el bio Hunter bio M"ry, QueenConsort,bio Nelson L North 3 Pringle1 Selwyn3 Wilkes 5 GeorgeIV, King of Great Britain and Ireland Brummellbio, 3, 4 Carolineof Brunswickbio, l, 3-4 Georgelll bio, 3 North 3 Sheridan 16 Victoria L tUTilkes 5 GeorgeV, King of the United Kingdom Asquith,M., 5 Cadbury L

INDEX OF NAMES

Mary, QueenConsort,bio Sargent1 GeorgeVI, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Armstrong,L.r Z Bennett, 4., 3 ElizabethII 1 Elizabeththe QueenMother bio, 5-7 M"ry, QueenConsortr2 Montgomery,B. L.r z George-Brown,Baron Gerard,JamesWatson Gerguson, Harry F. SeeRomanoff, Mike Gerry, Elbridge Harrison,B., 1 Gershwin,George Gershwin,1.,bio Kaufman bio Levant bio Marx, G., 5 Gershwin,Ira Gest,Morris Cooper,D., I Gesvres, Bernard Frangois Potier, Marquis de Getty,J[ean]Paul Dempsey 3 Ghiberti, Lorenzo Michelangelo6 Giampetro,Joseph Gibbon, Edward Necker bio Gibbs,JosiahWillard Gide, Andre Gielgud, $ir John Gieseking, Valter Enesco1 Gifford, tVilliam Hazlitt 2 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, John Claire 1 Lillie 9 Gilbert, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Dreyschock1 Sullivan, A. 5., bio Giles, Frank Thomas Robertson Gill, Brendan Liebling 1 Gilot, Frangoise Giolitti, Giovanni Giorgione[Giorgioneda Castelfranco] Giotto [Giotto di Bondone] Gipp, George Gerard,Stephen

INDEX

OF NAMES

676
Goldwyn18, 22 Warner 2 Goldwyn, Samuel Arlen 1 Ford,J., I Korda 2 Marx, G., 14 Mayer bio, 5 Shaw,G. B., 1,9 Thurber 2 Warner 2 Goldwyn,Samuel, Jr. Goldwyn 17 Gomez,Vernon ["Lefty"] Goncourt,Edmondde Balzac6 Goodhart, Charles tUfilde13 Goodman,Benny [Benjamin Davidl Goodman,Dodie Goodwin, Nat Carleton1 Gordon, Lord George Gordon,John Brown Lee 3 Gordon, Richard Gordon,Ruth Kaufm an 15 Parker, D.r 20 Gore-Booth,Paul Henry, Baron Gorki, Maksim [AlekseiMaksimovich Peshkovl Caine1 Gossage, Howard Steinbeck 3 Gosse, Sir Edmund H.r 2, 4 James, Maugham I Gould, Jay Grable,Betty Gracchus, Gaius Cornelia1 Gracchus, Tiberius CorneliaI ScipioNasicaSerapio bio Gracchus, TiberiusSempronius Corneliabio Grace,Princess Kelly, G., bio Rainierbio Grace,W[illiam] G[ilbert] Graham,Billy Evans, E., I Graham,Frank Rice 1 Grahamof Claverhouse Cameron, E., bio Grainger,PercyAldridg. Gramont,Comtede Louis XIV 7 Grange,Red [Harold] Nagurski 1 Grant, Cary [Archibald Leach] Grant,Julia Dent Grant,U. S., l, 13 Simpson Grant, Ulysses Benchley 5 Greeleybio Lee,R. E., 3 Mizner,'W., 3 Twain 11 Grasset, Bernard Cocteau 5 Grassini,Giuseppina Graves, Amy GravesL Graves,Robert Ranke Lawrence, T. E., 112 Murray, Gilbert, 2 Gray, Thomas Blake,VI., bio Graziano,Rocky fThomas RoccoBarbellal Greeley, Horace Greeley, Mrs. Horace Fuller,Margaret,2 Green,Hetty [Henrietta Howlandl Green,JosephHenry Greene, Graham Greenwood,Frederick Gregory I, Saint Gregory,Lady Augusta Yeatsbio Grenfell,JoyceIrene Greville,Mrs. Ronald [Maggie] Chamberlain, H.,2 Grey, Edward, lst Viscount Grey of Fallodon Grieg, Edvard Hagerup Cortot L Grainger1 Rachmaninoff 1 'W. Griffith, D. Previn1 Tree 4 Grimaldi,Joseph Abernethy5 Grimm, Charlie Gromyko, Andrei 1" Kissinger '$Talter Gropius, \Xlefiel bio Grote, George Grote bio

Gerard (continued) Greeley3 Girardi Francis JosephI Giraudoux,Jean Giroux, Robert Elioq T. S., 8 Girtin, Thomas Turner 5 Gladstone, Catherine 2 Gladstone Gladstone, William Ewart Chamberlain, J., bio Disraeli 5-7, 15 Faraday1 Labouchere 4 Napoleon, E. L. J. J., 3 Tennyson 5 Victori a bio \X/ilkes5 Gleason, Jackie \ilfilliam Henry, Gloucester, Duke of Gibbon 3 Gluck, ChristophWillibald Arnould bio Gluck-Sandor Tamiris L Glyn, Elinor Gobbo,Il Michelangelo 1 Godard,Jean-Luc Godiva, Lady Godowsky,Leopold Pachmann L Godwin, \Uflilliam Shelley, M., bio Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Baker,I.r 2 Goethe,August Goethe4 Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von Beethoven L Hugo 5 Reinha rdt bio Gogarty,Oliver IJoseph]St. John Yeats2 Gogol Pushkin1 Goldberg,Arthur J[oseph] Golden,John Goldsmith,Oliver Boswell1 R. 8., 12 Sheridan, Goldwater,Barry Kennedy, I. F., L0 Goldwyn, Frances

677
Grote, Harriet Guggenheim, Peggy Guiche,Comte de Louis XIV 4 Guimard, Marie Arnould l. Guimond, Esther Guinan,Texas Edward VIII 1 Guines,Adrien-Louisde Bonniires, Duke of Guinness,Sir Alec Guinness, Gloria Cooper, D., 2 Loel Guinness, Cooper,D., 2 Guitry, Lucien Bernhardt15 Guitry, 5., bio Guitry, Sacha Guitry, L., bio Guizot, FranEois Lieven 1 Sarkis Calouste Gulbenkian, Gulbenkian bio Gulbenkian,Nubar Sarkis Gunther,Frances Gunther 3 Gunther,John La Guardia2 Gunther,Johnny Gunther 3 GustavV, King of Sweden Thorpe 1 Adolphus,King of Gustavus Sweden Christina bio OscarII 1 Vasa,King of Gustavus Sweden OscarII 1 Gwenn, Edmund Gwyn, Nell [Eleanor] Charlesll 9 Haas,Bob Edman 1 Haddad,William Kennedy, I. F., t7 Hadrian Haeseler,Count Gottlieb
YOn Hagen, Walter Sarazen L Hailsham, Lord Marten 1 Halbe, Max

INDEX

OF NAMES

Halberstam, David Johnsor,L. B.r 2 Haldane, J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldan,R. 8., bio Haldane, John Scott Knox, R., 4 Haldane, Richard Burdon, ViscountHaldane Hale, Edward Everett Howe, J. W., 2 Hale, Nathan Hal6vy,Jacques FranEois Rossini1 Haley, Alex Halifax, CharlesMontague, lst Earl of Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of Halkett, Colonel Hugh Cambronne1. Hall, Sir Beniamin Hall, Donald Thomas,D., 2 Hall, Radclyffe Goldwyn 5 Hallam, Arthur . Tennysonbio Haller, Albrechtvon Voltaire 10 Halsey,William Frederick,Jr. Hamid II, Abdul, Sultanof Turkey John,A., 1 Hamilton, Alexander Burr bio Hamilton, Lady Emma Nelsonbio, 5, 7 Hamilton, Sir \U7illiam Nelson 5 Hamilton, \U(Iillie H., 2 S7ilson, Hammarskjold, Dag Khrushchev1 Hammerstein, Dorothy Hammerstein 2 HammersteinII, Oscar Rodgersbio, I Hammett, Dashiell Bankhead 1 Hampshire, Susan Charles,Prince,L Hamsun, Knut Hancock,John Franklin 3 Handel, GeorgeFrideric BroughamL Georgell bio, 1,

Hannibal Hanska,Evelina Balzac t Harcourt, Sir Ifilliam Devonshire 2 Tennyson9 Hardie, fiames]Keir Harding, Chester BooneL 'S7arren Harding, G. Debs1 Lardner 3 Hardy, G[odfrey]H[arold] Ramanujan bio, I Russell, Bertrand,2-3 Hardy, Thomas Barrie 2 Caine1 Hardy, ThomasMasterman Nelson6-7 Harlow, Jean Asquith,M., 1, Harmodius IphicratesL Harold, King William I bio Harriman,E. H. Muir 1 Harriman, W[illiam] Averell Harris, Frank fiamesThomas] Bennett,A., 1 Wilde 4 Harris, George Harris, Jarnes TownshendL Harris, Jed Kaufman 9 Harris, Roy N., I Boulanger, Harris, Sam Marx, G., 8 Harrison, Beniamin ("Signer") Harrison, Beniamin (Pres.) Harrison, George Harrison, I7illiam Henry bio Harrisoo,B. (Pres.), bio, t Tecumseh Hart, Lorenz Rodgersbio, I Hart, Moss Brooks,M., 3 Harris,J., bio Kaufman bio \U7oollcott 4 Harte, [Francis]Bret Hartington, Lord Lamb, Caroline,2 Hartleben, Otto Erich

INDEX

OF NAMES

678
Heidegger, John James Heifetz, Jascha Godowsky 1 Kreisler3 PerlmanL Heine,Eugenie Heine2 Heine, Heinrich Meyerbeer1, '$Terner Heisenberg, Einstein5 Helen,Princess of Greece Carol lI bio Albert, Prince,3 Hellman, Lillian Bankhead 1 Hammett 4 Parker, D., 17 Hellmesberger, Joseph Helpmann,Robert Berners 4 Helprin, Mark Helv6tius,Mme Franklin 1 Hemingway, Ernest Anders on bio Berra 3 Faulkner5 Hayward bio O'Hara 1 RossL0 Stein2 Hemingway, Hadley Hemingway2 Hemingway,Patrick Hemingway7 Hemingway, Pauline Hemingway2 Henderson, Fletcher Smith,8., bio Hendrick L Johnson,'W., Henri III, King of France Henri IY bio Henri IV, King of France Marie de M6dicis bio Henry, Duke of Gloucester Victoria 1.7 Henry I, King of England Henry Il bio Henry II, King of England Eleanorof Aquirainebio, 1 Henry IV, King of England Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Fugger1 Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor RichardI bio Henry VIII, King of England Boleyn bio, 1,2 Catherineof Aragon bio, 1 Churchill,V/., 34 Cole bio Cranm er bio Elizabeth I bio Howard, C., bio, 1 Kingsalebio Latime r bio Mary I bia More, T., bio Skelton, J., bio, I Henry, Camille Henry, O. Henson,Josiah Stowe L Henze,Hans Werner Christi,J., 1, Hepburn, Katharine Barrymore, J., 5 Bogart bio Tracy bio, 2 Hepburn,Ralph Shaw,W., 1 Hepburn,Dr. Thomas Hepburn L Herbert, A[lan] P[atrick] Montgomery,B. L., 1 Sargent, M., 5 Herbert, tUTilliam [3rd Earl of Pembrokel Pembroke bio, I Herford, Oliver HermBs, Emile-Maurice Dietrich 2 Herodotus Thales1 Herrmann,Bernard Levant 3 Herrmann,Max Bunsen1, Herschel,Caroline Hersch el bio Herschel,Sir William GeorgeIII 1 Hervey, Lord Pope,Alexander,3 Herzl, Theodor Zangwlll bio Ffess, Dame Myra Heth, Henry Lee,R. E., 2 Hevesy,Georg de Hewart, Gordon, lst Viscount Smith,F. E., 9 Heyerdahl,Thor Hicks, Seymour Lonsdale1

Hartley, David Burke 2 Hartnell, Norman 'Sfarren Hastings, Burke 4 Hatto Hatton, Lady Elizabeth Coke 1 Hatton, Sir Sfilliam Coke 1 Hauptmann,Gerhart Werfel I Havemeyer,Louisine Waldron Elder Hawkins, Anthony Hope Betty 1 Hawkes,Howard Faulkner5 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Melville 1 Peabody bio Hawtrey, Sir CharlesHenry H"y, Lord Charles H"y, John Harte 2 Hayakawa,S. I. Haydn, FranzJoseph Mozart 4 RegerL Hayes,Helen Connelly2 MacArthur, C., bio I7oollcott 8 Hayes,Rutherford B. Haymes,Dick Hayworth 1 Hayward, Sir John Bacon2 Hayward, Leland Faulkn er 2 Hayworth, Rita Hazlitt, William Hearst, William Randolph Bennett, J. G,, 2 Davies, M., bio Fowler 2 Parker,D., 4 Rogers,W., I Sfelles&io Heath, Edward Beaverbrook, I(/., 1, Hecht, Ben Lederer 1 MacArthur, C., bio Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie de Lincoln,A., 17 Heggen,Thomas

679
Hideyoshi Hiero I bio 1,r2 Archimedes Higgins,Joe Ross2 Thomas'U7entworth Higginson, Howe, J. V., 2 Higham,Thomas Knox, R., 3 Hilbert, David Hill, John Hill, Rowland Hillary, Sir Edmund Mallory 1 Hindemith, Paul Hindenburg,Paul von L Liebermann Hippias L Iphicrates Hitchcock, Sir Alfred 2 Simenon Hitler, Adolf Budge1 N., bio, 1 Chamberlain, Chaplin bio Forgy 1 Goeringbio P1tain bio Hoar, GeorgeFrisbie Hoare, Sir Samuel GeorgeV 6 Hobbs,Jack [Sir John Berry] Hobhouse, John Cam Byron 2 Hobson,Laura Z. Hobson,Thayer Hobson,L., I Hobson, Thomas Hocking, Agnes Hocking bio Hocking, William Ernest Hodson, Henrietta Gilbert,W. S., 5 Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hofmann, JosefCasimir Hogarth, William HeideggerL Hogg, ThomasJefferson Shelley, P. 8., I Hokusai Holbach,Baron d' Geoffrin 1 Holbein,Hans Henry VIII 2 Holding, Michael 2 Johnston,8., Holland, Lady Orsay2 Holland, George Holland, Henry Fox, Lst Baron Selwyn1 Holles, Denzil Holles, lst Baron Holliday, Judy [Judith Tuvim] Cukor 1 Holmes, Fanny Dixwell Holmes,O. W., Jr.r4 Holmes,John Holmes,John Clellon KerouacL Holmes,Oliver Wendell,Sr. I HolmeS, J., bio, 'W., Holmes,O. Jr.r2, 4 Holmes,Oliver Wendell,Jr. Emerson5 Lincoln,A., 2l Holmes,F. D., bio, 213 Holmes,O. W., Sr., 8 Home, Alec Douglas-,Baron Home of the Hirsel Home, YI., bio Home, Lady DouglasHome, A., 1 Home, RachelDouglasHome, V., 1 Home, William DouglasMorley, R., I Homer Pope,Alexander,bio Homer, Winslow Hook, Theodore Edward Hooker, Joseph Lincoln,A., 24 Hooper, Admiral Fermi 1 Hoover, Herbert Long 2 Ruth 1 Hoover, Mrs. Herbert Horowitz 3 Hoover, J. Edgar Johnsor,L. B., 4 Hope, Bob [LeslieTownes] rU7hitelaw L Hopkinson,Charles Holmes,O. \(/., Jr., 5 Hoppner,John Porson3 Horace Porson1 Hore-Belisha, Leslie GeorgeV 9 Hornblow, Arthur, Jr. Mankiewicz2 Horne, Lena 2 Jessel Horowitz, Yladimir

INDEX

OF NAMES

Horthy de Nagybinya, Mikl6s Horton, Edward Everett Al Horwits, 'Winters L Hotham, Lady Gertrude 3 Chesterfield Houdini, Harry [Ehrich Weiss] Houghton, GeorgeH. Holland 1 House,Colonel L0 Clemenceau Housman,A[lfred] E[dward] Barrie I-2 Housman,Laurence Housman2 Howard of Effinghaffi,Lord Drake 2 Howard, Catherine Howarci,Lady Elizabeth Dryden 2 Howard, Frank Namath 1, Howard, Leslie Howard, Lady Lorna Baldwin 2 Howard, Lady Mary Murray, Gilbert, I Howarth, David Drake 2 Howarth, Humphrey Howe, Elias Howe, Gordie Ford, G., 1 Howe, Julia Ward Astor,J., 1 Howells, William Dean Stowe L Twain 9 Howells,Mrs. \Tilliam Dean Howells 2 Hruska, Roman Lee Hubbard, Cal Nagurski 1 Hughes,William Morris Hugo, Victor Hulbert,Jack Courtneidge bio, 1 Hulbert, Merritt Goldwyn 3 Hull, Cordell Hoover 3 Humboldt, FriedrichHbinrich Alexander,Baron von n, T ., 7 Jefferso Hume, David Hume, Paul Truman 2 Humes,John Humphry,Hubert Horatio

INDEX

OF NAMES

580
Isherwood, Christopher Auden bio, I Jacks,Arthur Lardner 2 Andrew Jackson, Adams, J. Q., bio Buchanan 1 Van Buren bio Charles Jackson, 'W'., Holmes,O. Sr., 4 Jackson, JudgeHowell Edmunds HolmeS, O. W., Jr.r4 Jackson, Joe Rachel Jackson, A., 1. Jackson, ThomasJonathan Jackson, ["Stonewall"] Jacobi, Karl GustavJacob M. H. Jacobi, K., 1 Jacobi, Jagel,Frederick Slezak1 Jakes, John Lewis,S., 2 JamesI, King of Englandand Ireland Bacon4 Coke bio Digby bio FawkesL GeorgeI bio Jonsonbio Mtry, Queenof Scots, bio Raleighbio, 8 II, King of England, James Scotland, and lreland CharlesII 5, 9 bio Jeffreys Milton 2 1 Sedley Valler bio tVilliam lll bio V, King of Scotland James bio Mary, Queenof Scots, d. See VI, King of Scotlan James I James Henry James, Alexander, G., 1 bio Gosse \U(/., bio, 3, 4 James, Peabody bio Jesse James, William James, Jarcy,Alfred Jefferson, Joseph Martha (Skelton) Jefferson, T., 2 Jefferson, Jefferson,Thomas Adams, J., 2 Burr bio Clay,H., 3 Franklin2 Kenned/, J. F., 15 tVoodbridge1 Jeffkins,Robert DePalma 1 Jeffrey,Francis Smith,S.,3 George,lst Baron Jeffreys, Jeffreysof Wem Jeffries, James J. Fitzsimmons L Jekyll,Dr. Hyde,'V(/'., 1. J6r6me,King of Westphalia Mathil de bio Jerome, Jennie R. H.5., bio Churchill, Jerrold, Douglas Barham2 George Jessel, Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joan of Arc Churchill,UI., 24 de Gaulle4 John XXIII, Pope Snead1 2 Spellman John III Sobieski,King of Poland John, Mr. Lee,G. R., 1 John, Augustus[Edwin] Firbank 1 John of the Cross,Saint Teresaof Avil a bio Johnson,Andrew Hibbard Johnson, Wright, F. L., I Johnson,Lyndon Baines Humphrey bio Oppenheimer 3 Johnson,Nunnally Cooper,Gary,2 Monroe 1 Johnson,Samuel Boswell bio, 1,2 Dennis2 Goldsmith bio, I Reynol ds bio 3 Siddons C. Samuel Johnson, F. L., 1 Wright, '$Talter Johnson, Ruth 5 Johnson,Sir William

Huncke, Herbert Kerouac1 Hundley, Rodney Hunt, Leigh Carlyle 5 Hunt, William Holman Rossettibio Hunter, John Hurst, Fannie Roosevelt, F. D., 3 Huston, John Hutchins, Robert Maynard Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley,1., bio Huxley, Sir Julian Huxley,A., 2 Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley,A., bio Huxley,J., I Huysmans,Joris Karl Hyde, Lady Catherine Hyde, William Hyde-White, Wilfrid Hylan, John F. Hynd, Dr. Samuel Sobhuza II 1 Hyrtl, Joseph Ibn Saud Ibrahim Pasha Ibsen,Henrik Archer bio Dusebio Fiskebio Gossebio rdt bio Reinha Ikku, Jippensha Inchbald, Elizabeth Inge, William Ralph Bridges2 BernhardSeverin Ingemann, Andersen1 Ingersoll,Robert Green Beecher 4 Brooks,P., I Ingyo of Duchess Inverness, Russell , J., 2 Iphicrates Irving, Sir Henry 2 Tennyson Twain 13 Irwin, Ben Laughton2 Isabella, QueenConsort Edward llI bio Isabella, Queenof Spain Columbusblo Isabey,Jean-Baptiste

68r
Johnston,AlexanderKeith Thomsotr,J., I Johnston,Brian [Alexander] Jolley, Smead Jolson,Al [Asa Yoelson] Jones,Dean Marlborough,J. C., 1 Jones,Henry Arthur Jones,Henry Festing Butler,S., I Jones,Inigo Jonsonbio Jones, James Jones,John Paul ThomasG. Jones, Gordon,J. B., 1 Jonson,Ben Corbet bio Shakespeare 3 Jordan,Dorothea Betty 1 JosephII, Holy Roman Emperor CatherineII 1 a bio Maria Theres Joule,JamesPrescott Kelvin 2 Ifilliam Jovanovich, Russell, Bertrand,1 Jowett, Beniamin Joyce,James Gogarty bio John, A., bio Joyce,John, bio, 2-3 Nerval L Joyce,John Grace Joynson-Hicks, 1 Joynson-Hicks Joynson-Hicks,William Juang-zu Julia Augustus5 Julian Juliana,Queen Vilhelmina bio Julius II, Pope Michelangelo bio Julius III, Pope Jullien, Louis Antoine Jurg, Carl Freud 1 Elisabeth Jungmann, Beerbohm 5, 6 Jusserand, JeanAdrien Antoine Jules Kac, Mark Kahn, Otto H. Kallio, Kytisti Kames,Henry Home, Lord Kanin, Garson Tracy 2 Kant, Immanuel Karajan,Herbert von Nilsson 2 Karl Alexander Karno, Fred Chaplin bio Karnow, Stanley Luce,H., I Karsavina,Tamara Karsh,Yousuf Armstrotrg,N., 2 Casals 4 Hemingway8 John XXIII 3 Shaw, G.8.r 24 Karsh,Mrs. Yousuf Armstroog,N., 2 Kasner,Edward Katte, Lieutenant FrederickI(rilliam I 1 Kaufman,Beatrice Adams,F. P., 213 Kaufman 4 Levant5r 6 Kaufman,GeorgeS[imon] Adams, F. P., 2 Harris,J., bio Levant 5 Marx, H.r 2 2 Thalberg Kaunitz-Rietburg,Wenzel Anton, Princevon Kaye,Danny ShawG , .8.r 27 Thurber 2 Kean,Edmund Macrea dy bio Keating,Fred Bankhe ad 4 Keats,John Lowell, A., bio Wordsworth L Kefauver,Estes Kennedy, J. F., 3 Keith, Lieutenant FredericktUfilliamI 1 Keith, Mrs. Murray Scott 3 Kekul6 von Stradonitz, [Friedrichl August Kelland, ClarenceBudington Keller, Helen Adams Kelly, George Kelly, Grace.SeeGrace, Princess Kelly, Michael

INDEX

OF NAMES

Kelly, tUfalt Perry 1 Kelvin, William Thomson, lst Baron Kemble,Charles Siddon s bio Kemble,Fanny [Frances Anne] Kemble, C., bio Kemble, J. P., bio Siddons bio Kemble,John Philip Kemble, 5., bio Siddons bio Kemble,Roger Siddons1 Kemble,Stephen Kendal,Madge Bernhardt5 Kennedy,Caroline Kennedy, J. F., L5 Kennedy,Edward M. Kennedyr l. P., bio Kennedy,Ethel Kennedy, J. P.r4 Kennedy, See Jacgueline. Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy,John Fitzgerald Galbraith bio, 2 Goldber92 Johnsor,L. 8., bio Kennedy, J. P., bio, 4 Khrushchev 4 Ledru-Rollin 1 Lyautey 1 Nixon3,4 Oppenheimer 3 Stevenson, A. E.r 9 Taylor,M., bio Thomas,N., 2 Kennedy, John F., Jr. Kennedy, J. F., "1,7 Kennedy,JosephPatrick Kennedy, J. F., 2, 16 Kennedy,Robert F. Kennedy, J. F., 8 Kennedy, J. P., bio, 4 Kent, Victoria, Duchess of Victoria 3 Kepler,Johannes Keppel,Alice Sitwell, E.,2 Keppel,AugustusKeppel,lst Viscount Ker, William Paton Gosse1. Sharp1 Kern, Jerome[David] Dietz bio Hammerstein 2

INDEX

OF NAMES

682
Korda, Zoli Korda 3 Kortright, C. J. Grace2 Sergei Koussevitzky, Toscanini1 Kranepool,Ed 3 Stengel Krasna,Norman Cohn 3 Kraus,Karl Altenberg1 Kreisler,Fritz Krementz, Jill FlannerL Krock, Arthur Kennedy, I. F., LL Kroll, Leon Homer L Kruger, Paul Rhodesbio Kurland, Bob
Landers, Ann [Esther Pauline Lederer, nde Friedman] Landis, Kenesaw Mountain Landor, Walter Savage Landowska, Wanda Landru, Henri D6sir6 Lang, Andrew Zangwill 3 Lang, Gregor Roosevelt, T., I Lang, [tU7illiam] Cosmo Gordon, Baron Lang of Lambeth Langdon, Charles J. Twain 4 Langdon, Olivia. See Clemens, Olivia Langdon Langevin, Sir Hector MacDonald 1 Langrishe, Sir Hercules Langtry, Lillie [Emilie Charlotte le Bretonl Lansdowne, Lord Rogers, S., 1 Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Henry Labouchere, Larbaud, Valery Laemmle,Carl Lafayette,Marie JosephGilbert Joyce, James, 7 Lardner, Jamgs du Motier, Marquis de O'Hara L Stanton,C. E., I Lardner, Ring [Ringgold Lafitte,Jacques Wilmerl NapoleonI 13 La Fontaine,Jean de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de Lagrange, Joseph-Louis Laplace 2 Louis XVI 2 La Guardia, Fiorello Larwood, Harold Laird, Melvin Latimer, Hugh Laudon, Gideon Ernst von Lais Frederick II 9 Lamar, Lucius Quintus Laughlin, James Cincinnatus Lamarr, Hedy Nabokov L Mature 2 Laughton, Charles Lauzun, Armand Louis de Lamb, Lady Caroline Melbournebio Gontaut, Duc de Lamb, Charles Laval, Pierre Coleridge3 George V 6 Elliston 2 Lavater, Johann \U7ordsworth Lichtenberg bio 2 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lamb, Mary Law, [Andrew] Bonar bio, 1, Lamb, Charles, Lamb,William. SeeMelbourne, Law, Isabel Bonar rU7illiam Law L Lamb, 2d Viscount Lawrence D[avid] H[erbert] Lambrino,Zizi Lawrence, Gertrude ll bio Carol'\trfard Elizabeth the Queen Lamon, Mother 7 Lincoln,A., 3 Lawrence, James Lamour,Dorothy Lawrence, Sir Thomas Hope bio Turner 3 Elsa Lanchester, Lawrence T[homas] E[dward] Laughton 1.

Kerouac,Jack K6rouaille,Louisede Gwyn L Ketchel,Stanley Mizner, V., 819 Keynes, John Maynard, lst Baron Galbraith bio Khrushchev,Nikita Sergeyevich Kennedy, J. F., 7, 14 Macmillan L Kieran, John Kiner, Ralph King, Alan Garland2 Kinglake, Alexander William Kingsale,Michael William de Courcy, Baron Kingsley,Charles 1 Seeley Kipling, fioseph] Rudyard Barrie 2 Bridges1 Dodge 1 Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Bunsenbio Kirstein,Lincoln Tamiris 1 Kissinger,Henry Meir 3 Kitchener,Horatio Herbert, lst Earl of Khartoum and Broome Asquith,M., 3 Kittredge, GeorgeLyman Klein, Charles Klemperer,Otto Kliipfer, Eugene Klopp, Onno Churchill,W., 35 Kneller, Sir Godfrey Knighton, Sir rUfilliam GeorgeIV 1 Knoblock, Edward Lubitsch 1 Knopf, Alfred A. Knox, PhilanderChase Knox, Ronald Knox-Johnston,Robin Koestler,Arthur Koo, Wellington Koppay, Joszi Arpid, Baron von Dr6toma Korda, Sir Alexander Korda, Michael Welles1 Korda, Vincent Mother 5 Elizabeththe Queen rUfelles 1

683
Lawrence,William Lawson,Wilfrid fWilfrid \Torsnop] Lazar,Irving Paul ["Swifty"] Lazzeri, Tony Alexander, G. C., L Leach,Elsie Grant, C., 1, Cloris Leachman, Collins, 1., 1 Don Leadbeter, Nixon 5 Leahy,William Daniel Lear, Edward Leblanc,Georgette Maeterlinck2 Leblanc,Leonide Aumale 1,-2 Adrienne Lecouvreur, Voltaire 3 Lederer,Charles MacArthur, C., 1 Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Auguste Lee,Gypty Rose[RoseLouise Hovickl Lee,Harry \Talker L Lee,GeneralHenry Washington9 Lee, Nathaniel Lee,Robert E[dward] Mizner, V., 3 Le Gallienne,Richard Thomas Legros,Alphonse Lehman,Herbert Smith,A. E., L Lehmann,Lilli Leibniz,Gottfried \Tilhelm Newton bio, 10 Earl of Leicester, I bio Elizabeth Leigh, Augusta Byron bio Leigh,Vivien 2 Richardson Leighton, Frederic,Baron Leighton of Stretton Lely, Peter Cromwell 1 Lemaitre,Jules Detourbeybio Lemierre,Antoine Voltaire 14 Lemmon,Jack Cukor L Gwenn L Hayworth 2 Lenclos,Ninon de Leng, Kyrle BeatonL Lenin,Vladimir Trotsky bio Stalin bio Lenya,Lotte Leo X, Pope Aretino bio Leofric, Earl of Mercia Godivabio Leon,Jean Baker,J.r 2 Leonardoda Vinci BellowsL Caroto bio Leonidas Leopold,Prince Bach,J. 5., bio Leopold II, King of the Belgians Lepka,Louie Lowell, R., 2 Theodor Leschetizky, Lessing,Gotthold Ephraim Levant,June Levant 8 Levant,Oscar G., L-2, 4,7 Gershwin, Hart L Marx, H.r 2 Albert Leventhal, R., L Bernstein, Ada Leverson, Wilde 15 Levi, Peter 1 Seferis Levick,M. B. Ross4 Levine,Joseph MastroianniL Ldvis,Duc GastonPierre Marc de Levy, Alan Nabokov 2 Lewin, Al Thalberg3 Lewis,Cflive] S[taples] Lewis,G. N. Cockcroft L Lewis,Joe E. Lewis, Matthew Gregory ["Monk"] Lewis, Robert Clurmanlr 2 Lewis, Sinclair 2 Susann Warner L Lewis,Wyndham Sickert3

INDEX

OF NAMES

Ludwig Lewisohn, \floollcott 5 Lexell Euler 2 Liberace,Wladziu Valentino ["Liberace"] Li Bo Lichtenberg,Georg Christoph Liddell, Alice Carroll bio Liddell,Dr. Henry George Carroll. L., bio Liddell Hart, B. H. Shaw,G. B., Lz Liebermann,Max Liebling, Abbott Joseph Lieven,Dariya Khristoforovna, de Princess Lieven,Khristofer de Lieven bio Liliencron, Detlev von Lillie, Beatrice E.r 2 Barrymore, Connelly2 Lincoln, Abraham Booth,J. W., bio, L an 2 Buchan S. P., bio Chase, Garfield 1 Grant, U. 2 Jessel 2 Labouchere Lincoln, R. T., bio Mitford, N., 2 A. U., I Pope, Sewardbio 2 Stevens A. E., 1 Stevenson, Stowe2 \Thitman L Lincoln, Robert Todd Lind, Jenny Lindbergh,Charles GeorgeV 4 Lindemann,FrederickAlexander, Viscount Cherwell Linowitz, Sol M. Root 1. Liouville,Joseph Kelvin 4 Lipchitz,Jacques Stein4 Li Si Shi Huangdi 1 Lister,Joseph,lst Baron Lister Liszt, Cosima Liszt bio Liszt, Franz Brahmsbio

INDEX

O F NAMES

684
Eleanorof Aquitaine bio, 1. Louis XI, King of France Louis XII, King of France Juliusll bio Louis XIII, King of France Louis XIV 1 Marie de M6dicis bio Louis XIV, King of France Boileau bio, 3, 4 2 Bossuet EdwardVII 2 t Fontenelle Lenclosbio Lully bio Maintenonbio Mansart 1 Mazarin bio Molidrebio Philip Y bio, 1 Scarronbio Vatel 1 Louis XV, King of France Du Barry bio, 1, Franklin 5 Maurep as bio Messie r bio Pompadour bio, I Quesnay1 Louis XU, King of France Angoul6me bio Favras bio Fouch61 Franklin 5 Louis XV 5 Maurepas bio Marie Antoin ettebio Maury 1 NapoleonI 8 Necker bio Louis XVII, King of France Louis XYIII bio Louis XVI[, King of France Charles X bio, 1,2 Laplacebio Louis Philipp e bio NapoleonI 13 Richeli eu bio Talleyrand2 Louis,Joe Louis,Rudolf Reger2 Louis Philippe, King of France Aumale bio Lafayette bio Michelet 1 Napoleonlll bio Rachel1 Talleyrand14-15 Louise,Princess Victoria 17 Lowe, Joseph Lowell, Abbott Lawrence Lowell,A., 1 Lowell, Amy Lowell, Robert 'sfalter Lowenfels, BeckettL Lubitsch,Ernst Luce,Clare Boothe Longworth 2 D., 18 Parker, Luce,Henry R. \f., 41 Churchill, Luce,C. B., bio, 1 Lucullus,Lucius Licinius Luisetti,Hank Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lunt, Alfred Connelly2 Fontanne1 Magda Lupescu, Carol Il bio Lushington, Dr. Corbet L Luther, Martin Adrian YI bio Lutyens,Sir Edwin Landseer Lyautey,Louis Hubert Gonzalve Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1 Lycurgus Lyndhurst,John Singleton Copley,Lord Lyons,Leonard Coward14 Lytton, Edward GeorgeEarle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, lst Baron Lytton, Rosina,Lady Lytton 1 Mably, Gabriel Bonnet,Abb6 de MacArthur, Charles Chaplin3 Hayes, H., 1 LedererL Woollcott 8 MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur, Mary Hayes, H., 1 \Toollcott 8 Macaul^y, Thomas Babington, lst Baron McAuliffe, Anthony Clement MacCarthy,Frank Coolidge5 McCarthy,JosephR[aymond] McClellan,GeneralGeorge Brinton

Liszt (continued) bio Reisenauer bio, 4 Rosenthal Littlewood, J. E. 1 Ramanuian Liveright, Horace AndersonL Livermore,Mary Ashton Rice Livia Drusilla Julia 3 David Livingston, Stanleybio, 1 Mary Livingstone, Benny 5-6 Burns2 Llewelynab Gruffydd Edward I 1 Llewelyn-Davies, Sylvia Barrie9 Lloyd, Chris[tine]Evert Lloyd George,David, lst Earl Asquith,H., 1, Chamberlain, A., I De Valera4 Grey 2 Reading1 1 Joynson-Hicks Simon, J. A., I Lobengula, King of the Matabele Locke,John Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce Carol II 1 Loew, Marcus Kennedy, J. P.r2 Lombardi, Vince Long, Huey Pierce Long, Russell B. Hayakawa2 Longfellow,Henry'$Tadsworth Dodge 1 Emerson10 Longstreet, James Lee,R. 8., 1 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt Connelly1 Coolidgebio Longworth, Nicholas Connelly L Lonsdale,Frederick Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl of Asquith, M., 2 Lonsdale, Lowther, lst James Earl of Sheridan, R. B., 10 Losch, Tilly Louis, the Child King Hatto bio Louis VII, King of France

585
Lincoln,A.r 23 McCormack, John Tetrazzini 1 McCormick, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Harold McCormick bio McCoy, Kid [Norman Selby] McCrea, Joel Goldwyn t6 McCullers, Carson MacDonald, Sir John Alexander MacDonald, Ramsay ad 6 Bankhe Barrie 2 McEwen, John Grevillebio McGinl.y, Phyllis Guinness1 McGrath, Leueen Kaufman 18 Machault, Comte de Maurepas1 Mack, Connie tU[addell1 McKinley, Ida McKinley 2 McKinlty, William B. Adee 1 Lincoln, R. T., 1 Mackintosh,Sir James Smith,S., 2 Macklin, Charles Foote 1 Maclaine, Shirley Goldwyn 22 5 Khrushchev Maclise,Daniel Turner 5 MacMahon, Marie Edm6 Patrice Maurice, Comte de McMein, Neysa Connelly2 Macmillan, [Maurice] Harold, lst Earl of Stockton Butler, R. A., L Churchill,W., 34 Macmillan, Maurice Macmillan 2 MacNamara,Ed Caruso3 McNam ara, Robert Johnsol, L. B., 5 Thomas,N., 2 MacNeice,Louis Yeats L McNulty, John Ross12 Macpherson, James S., 20 Johnson, Macready,William Charles Madison,James Maeterlinck, Maurice Goldwyn 9 Magruder, John B. Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland Mahler, Gustav tUferfelbio Mahony, Patrick ShawG , .8.r 22 Mailer, Norman Buckley2 Maillol, Aristide Renoir 2 Maintenon, Frangoise d'Aubign6, Madame de Nerval 2 Chr6tiende Malesherbes, Louis XVI 3 Malherbe, Frangoisde Malibran, Maria Felicia al-Malik al Kamil, Sultan Francis,Saint, L Mallarm6, St6phane Rops bio Villiers de L'Isle-Adam1 Mallory, GeorgeLeigh Mallowan, Max Christie,A., 1. Malthus, Thomas Trilling 1 Mancroft, Lord Churchill,W., L7 Mankiewicz, Herman J. Hearst L Mankiewicz,JosephL. F. S., L Fitzgerald, Mankiewicz,Sara Mankiewicz 3 Mann, Erika Auden 1 Mann, Frederic Brandt 1 Mann, Thomas Auden 1 Brandt L Faulkner5 Manners,Lady Diana. See Cooper,Lady Diana Manning, Hugh Gardner Mannix, EdgarJ. Mayer 2 Mansart, Frangois Mansfield,Irving Susann bio, 2, 3 Woollcott 3 Mansfield, William Murray, lst Earl of Norton 1 Mantegna,Andrea

INDEX

OF NAMES

Caroto bio Mantle, Mickey Stengel 5 Manzoni, Alessandro Yerdi bio Mao Zedong Marat, JeanPaul Corday bio Marbury, Elisabeth Shaw,G. 8., 5 Marbury, Elizabeth Astor, M. D., L Marceau, Marcel Marcellus 4 Archimedes Margaret [Rose],Princess Beaton2 Elizabeththe QueenMother

2, 4-s

Taylor, E., 1 Maria Fdorovna Maria Theresa,Empressof Austria Franklin 5 FrederickII 10 Josephll bio 1 Kaunitz-Rietburg Marie Antoinette Angoulilmebio Cagliostrobio Louis XV 5 Louis XYI bio Lutyens2 Mozart 2 Marie de M6dicis Marie Louise,Princess Disraeli15 Marie-Louiseof Austria Francisll bio NapoleonI bio Marini, Marino L Guggenheim Marivaux, PierreCarlet de Chamblainde Allais 2 Marks, Alfred Morley, R., 1 Marlborough, John Churchill, lst Duke of bio Churchill, \U7., Peterborough1 Marlborough, 9th Duke of Balsanblo Marlborough, John SpencerChurchill, 10th Duke of Marlowe, Christopher Coward 8 Marquand,Jlohn] P[hillips] Marquis, Don[ald Robert Perryl

TNDEX OF NAMES

686
Mason, Jeremiah D.,7 \7ebster, Massenet,Jules Massey, Raymond Coward 7 Kaufm an 19 Masters, Edgar Lee Mencken 3 Mastroianni, Marcello Mathews, Charles Hook 2 Mathilde, Princess Matilda Henry ll bio Matisse, Henri Diaghilev 3 Fry 1 Matthews, A[lfred] E[dward] Mature, Victor Maughoffi, Wfilliam] Somerset Parker, D., L6 MaurepaS, Jean-Fr 6d6ric Ph6lippeaux, Comte de Maurice, Frederick Denison Jowett 1 Maury, Jean Siffrein Mawby, Sir Joseph North 2 Mawson, Douglas David L Maxentius Constantine (the Great) 1 Maxwell, Robert'W. ["Tiny"] M"y, Phil[ip William] M"y, Samuel Anthony 1 Mayer, Louis B. Arlen I Garbo 1 Goldwyn 20 H a y e s ,H . , 2 Mayer, Milton Hutchins 5 Mayer, Sir Robert Elizabeth II 4 Mayo, Charles Horace Mayo, \Tilliam James Mayo bio Mayo, William Worrall Mayo bio, I Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal Mazzini, Giuseppe Fuller, Margar et, bio Rochefort 1 Medici, Lorenzo de' (the Magnificent) Leo X bio Megabates Agesilaus1 Mehmed II Mehta, Zubin Mehul, Etienne Cherubini 1 Meir, Golda Melanchthon, Philipp Luther 1 Melba, Dame Nellie [Helen Porter Armstr ong, nde Mitchelll Melbourne, William Lamb, 2d Viscount Churchill, \f., 34 Lamb, Caroline, bio, 1 Victoria 5 Melchior, Lauritz Slezak 1 Mellon, Andrew William Duveen 4 Melville, Herman Mencken, H[enry] Lfouis] Dreiser 1 Mendelssohn-Barthol dy, George de Klempe rer 2 Mendes, Catulle Scholl 1 Mendle, Sir Charles de \7ol fe bio Menelik II Menotti, Gian-Carlo Callas 2 Menshikov, Alexander Sergeievich, Prince Menuhin, Yehudi Perlman 1 Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon Churchill, !f., 45 Meredith, George Beerbohm 2 Merman, Ethel M6rode, Cl6o de Whistler 5 Merrill, Robert [Robert Millerl Messier, Charles Metaxas, Ioannis Metternich, Klemens, Prince von Auber 4 Francis ll bio Metternich, Prince Richard Metternich, P., bio Metternich, PrincessPauline lnee CountessSdndorl Meurisse, Paul Meyerbeer, Giacomo Liszt 1 Michael, King of Rumania Carol ll bio

Marsh, Edward 'Sf., 3-4 Churchill, Cunard 2 Firbank 2 Lawrence, T. E., 3 Marshall, Herbert Marshall, John Marshall, Thomas Riley Marten, Neil Martin, George Harrisotr, G., I Martin, Kingsley Martin, Mary Merman 1, Martinelli, Giovanni Marx, Chico [Leonardl Kaufman 12 Marx, G., 8-9 Perelman bio Thalberg I Marx, Groucho $ulius] Kaufman 1,2-13 Mature 2 Perelman bio Thalberg 1 Marx, Harpo [Arthur] Kaufman 12 Marx, G., 8, 12, 14 Perelman bio Thalberg 1 Marx, Karl Bonner L Engels bio Marx, Susan Marx, H., I Marx, Zeppo [Herbert] Kaufman 12 Marx, G., 8 Perelman bio Thalberg 1 Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland Catherine of Aragon bio, 1, Cole bio, 1, Cranm er bio Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland Sedley 1 Mary, Queen Consort of George V of Great Britain Budge 1 Cadbury I G e o r g eY b i o , 8 - 9 M"ry, Queen of Scots Cooper, D., 1, Elizabeth I bio, 1 James I bio Latimer bio Masaryk, Jan Mascagni, Pietro

687
MichelangeloBuonarroti Carlyle2 Ghiberti 1 Julius ll bio, I Medici 1 Michelet, Jules Michell, Louis Rhodes3 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Mikes, George Milanov, Zinka Bing 7 Milbanke,Anne Isabella Byron bio Mildmay, Audrey Christie, J., bio Miles, Sylvia I7illiams 2 Miil, John Stuart Carlyle L KoestlerL Millais, John Everett Rossettibio Millar, Andrew Fielding1 S., 3 Johnson, Millay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mrs. Henry Tolman Millay 1 Millay, Norma Millay 1 Miller, Arthur Harris, J., bio, I Monroe bio Miller, Jonathan Marx, H., 1 Millikan, Robert Andrews Milne, Allan] A[lexander] Courtneidge1 Milne, Christopher Courtneidge1 Milne L Milnes, Richard Monckton, lst Baron Houghton Hugo 3 Milo Milton, Elizabeth Milton L Milton, John Fuselibro Hobson , T., bio Porson4 Mirabeau, Flonor6 Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Maury 2 Mises, Ludwig von Mitchell, Sharon Mitchum, Robert Mitford, Diana Mitford, N., blo Mitford, Jesstca Mitford, N., bio Mitford, Nancy Cunard L Evans,E., 3 Mitford, T., bio Palewskibio Waugh 5 Mitford, Thomas Mitford, Unity Mitford, N., bio Mitterrand, Frangois Reagan5 Mitterrand, Mme 5 Reagan Mizner, Addison Mizner,V., 13, t4 Mizner, Wilson Coolidge27 Mizner,A., bio Modigliani, Amedeo Mohr, Franz Horowitz 2 MoliEre [Jean-Baptiste Poquelinl Allais 2 Lenclosblo rdt bio Reinha Moln6r, Ferenc Mommsen, Theodor Monboddo, Lord KamesL Moncey, Bon Adrien Jeannot de Napoleon| 7 Monet, Claude Cassattblo Monica, Saint Augustinebio Monmouth, Duke of Shaftesbwybio Monroe, Marilyn DiMaggio 1 Miller bio Montagu, Charles[Lst Earl of Halifaxl Pope,Alexander,1, Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, CharlesEdward Montaigueof Limoges MessierL Montebello,Count Bembo 1 Montecuccoli, Raimund, Count Montefiore, Sir Moses Montespan,Mme de Maintenon bio CharlesLouis de Montesquieu, Baron de Secondat, du Deffand bio

INDEX

OF NAMES

Voltaire 2 Monteux, Claude Monteux 3 Monteux, Pierre 9 Stravinsky Montgomery,BernardLaw, lst ViscountMontgomery of Alamein'W., 18 Churchill, \U7arner 2 Montgomery,James Anne, Duc de I\,[ontmorency, Moore, Bessie BowlesL Moore, Garry 1 Sheen Moore, GeorgeAugustus Moore, GeorgeEdward Moore, JiCohan4 Moore, Kate Edward VII 2 Moore, Thomas Byron 2 1 Bowles 'V7ordsworth 3 Moran, Edward Fillmore 1 More, Anne Donne L More, Hannah More, Margaret More, T., 2 More, Sir Thomas Moreau, Gustave Matissebio Morel, F6d6ric Morgan, Charles Vanderbilt,C., 1 Morgan, John Pierpont,Sr. Astor, M., 1 Bryan3 Morgan, John Pierpont,Jr. Green,H., 1 Morgan, John Hunt ForrestL Moriot, Cardinal J6r6me1 Morley, Christopher Morley, Robert Hartnell 1 Morris, Clara Morris, Sir Lewis Wilde 8 Morris, William Morrow, Dwight Cecil 1 Morse, SamuelFinley Breese Mortimer, Roger (IV) de Edward lll bio

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OF NAMES

588
Churchill,W., 27 Gandhi,M. K., 3 GeorgeV 5 Giolitti I Zog I bio Mussolini, Edda Churchill,W., 27 Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Borodin 1 Myron Lais 1 Mytton, John Nabokov,Nicholas Stravinsky 13 Nabokov, Vladimir Nagurski,Bronko Namath,Joe Napier, Sir CharlesJames NapoleonI AlexanderI bio, 2 Beethoven 3 Bernad otte bio Borghe se bio Campbell, T., I Carolineof Brunswick4 Chateaubriand 1 Churchill,\U7., 5 de Gaulle4 Edison , 7., 5 Fouch6 bio, 1,2 Fox, C. J., bio FrancisII bio, 1 Frederick Augustus I bio Georgelll bio Goethe2 Grassini1 J1r6mebio Lafayette bio Laplace1 Louis XVIII bio, I Napole on lll bio Pitt bio, 3-4 Richeli eu bio Staelbio, 1, 5 Talleyrand bio, 9,10, ll \Ufellington bio, 6, 15 NapoleonII NapoleonI bio NapoleonIII Auber bio Blessington I Btilow 2 Castiglione bio Eug6nie bio, 2 Feydeau 1 Jdrdmebio, 1 Metternich,P., bio MommsenI
Napoleon, E. L. J. J., bio, 3 Napoleon, J. C. P., bio Napoleon, EugEne Louis Jean Joseph Eug6nie bio Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, Prince Napoleon, E. L. J. J., 3 Narni, Erasmus da Donatello 1 Narviez, Ram6n Maria Nash, N. Richard Goldwyn 18 Nash, Ogden Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nast, Thomas Nathan, George Jean Russell,G. V., I Necker, Jacques Gibbon 1 Necker blo StaEl bio Necker, Suzanne Gibbon 1 Nehru, Jawaharlal Gandhi, I., bio, 1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Napoleon I bio Nelson, Lindsey Kiner 1 Nepos, Metullus Cicero 4 Nero Agripprna bio, "1. Petronius bio, I Senecabio, I Vespasian bio Nerval, G6rard de Nesbit, Evelyn Mizner, W., L0 Neugebauer, Otto Einstein 1 Nevers, Ernie Stuhldreher 1 'V7. Nevinson, H. Montague 1 Newcastle, Lord Pitt 2 Newman, Paul Graziano 2 Newton, Sir Isaac Beerbohm 5 Fonten elle bio Niarchos, Stavros Nicholas I, Czar SchwarzenbergL Nicklaus, Jack William Niewekerke, Count Mathilde 1

Morton, \trflilliam Holmes,O. W., Sr.,4 Moscard6,Jos6 Moser, Mary Fuseli1 Moses Mrs. P., 9 Campbell, Mosley, Sir Oswald Mitford, N., bio Moss, Howard Bowen,8., 1 Mott, Lucretia Coffin Mountbatten of Burma, Louis, Lst Earl Gandhi,M. K., 1 Moyers,Bill L. B.r 7 Johnsoo, Mozart, Leopold Mozart bio Mozart, Wolfg^ng Amadeus Brahms3 Christi, J., 1 Muggeridge,Malcolm Mugnier, Abb6 Arthur Muhammad ShahI Muir, Frank Norden bio Muir, John Mumbet T., I Sedgwick, Munsey,Frank Henry, O.r 2 Murad II, Sultan MehmedII 1 Muraviev, Count Mikhail Muraviev-Apostol, Sergei Muraviev 1 Murphy, Arthur Burke 1 Murphy, CharlesF. Murphy, Gerald Mrs. P., 5 Campbell, Fitzgerald, 2., I Murphy, Sara Campbell, Mrs. P., 5 Fitzgerald,2.,I Murray, Sir George Murray, [George]Gilbert IAim6] Einstein9 Murray, Sir James Bradley bio Murray, John Byron 4 Murray, Margaret Alice Musset,Alfred de Mussolini,Benito Baldwin bio N., bio Chamberlain,

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Nightingale, Florence Cambridge1 Niiinsky, Vaslav Bernhardt13 Diaghilevbio Karsavinabio Tamiris 1 Nilsson, Birgit Marta Bing 5 Nitocris, Queen Darius I 2 Niven, David Astaire2-3 Curtiz L Garbo 2 Huston L Khrushchev5 Nivernais, Louis JulesMancini Mazann, Duc de Nixon, Richard Milhous Armstrong,N., 1 Castro L Ford, G., bio Humphrey bio Hruska L er bio Kissing Laird 1 Landers2 Lazar I Meir 2-3 4 Reagan ComNoailles, Anna-Elisabeth, tesse de Nomad, Max SteffensL Norbury, John Toler, lst Earl of Carolineof Brunswick2 Norden, Denis Nordica, Lillian LehmannL Norgay, Tenzing Hillary L North, Frederick,Lord Fox, C. J.r 2 Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Kitchener 1 Northcote, James Duchess of Northumberland, Gray L Norton, Fletcher,lst Baron Grantley Noyes,John Humphrey Nuffield, William Richard Morris, lst Viscount Nureyev,Rudolf Astairebio Fonteynbio Nurmi, Paavo Oates,LawrenceEdward Grace O'Brien,Pat Warner L Ochs,Adolph S. Koppay 1 Ochs,Iphigene Koppay 1 O'Connell,Daniel Disraelil, 2 O'Connor, Edwin Curley bio Octavia Nero bio Odets,Clifford Clurman L Adam Gottlob Oehlenschliger, AndersenL Offenbach,Jacques O'Hara, John [Henry] Oldfield, Anne Oliphant Cockcroft 1 Oliver, Vic Churchill, Ul., 27 Olivier, Laurence[Kerr] Baron Coward 10 Gielgud5 2 Richardson Olivier, Tarquin Coward 10 Olympias AlexanderIII 1 'Omar Aristotle [Socrates] Onassis, Niarchos 1 Bouvier Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy Kennedy, J. F., L3 bio Onassis O'Neal, Tatum O'Neill, Eugene Cohan bio Oppenheimer, George Parker,D.r 20 Oppenheimer, J. Robert Orlando,V. E. Ifilson, W., 5 Orphen,I7illiam Lang 1 Orsay, Alfred-GuillaumeGabriel, Count d' Blessington 1 Orsini, Felice Eug6nie 2 OscarII, King of Sweden Ossian. SeeMacpherson, James

INDEX

OF NAMES

Ossoli,Marquis d' Fuller,Margarct,bio Oswin, King Aidan 1 O'Toole, Peter Ott, Mel Shor 1 L Stengel Otto Ouida [Marie Louisede la Ram6el Ovid PorsonL Owen, Robert Paar,Jack Allen, F., 3 Bankhead 8 Garland1 Goodman,D., bio, 1 Levant 8 Muggeridge1 Schweitzer2-3 Pachmann, Vladimir de IgnaceJatt Paderewski, Leschetizky bio Masaryk 1 Paetus, Cecina Arria bio, I. Marcel Pagnal, Simenon 3 Paige,Leroy Robert ["Satchel"] Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain 1 Paine,Thomas \U7atson bio Painter,GeorgeD. AubernonL Palewski,Gaston Paley,William Palm,Johann T., 1. Campbell, Palmer,Arnold Nicklaus 1 Palmer, BertheHonore Gardner,I. S., 4 Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3d Viscount Park, Mungo Parker,Dorothy Asquith,M., bio Bankhe ad 2 Benchley 9, 12 Coolidge 27 Kaufman LL Ross3 Woollcott 2 Parker,Henry Taylor

INDEX

O F NAMES

690
Penrose,Roland Braque 1" Picasso18 Perdiccas Alexander III 3 Perelman,S[idney] J[oseph] Ross 7 Pericles Alcibiades 1 Anaxag oras bio Perkins, Frances Roosevelt,F. D.r 2 Perkins, Maxwell Fitzgerald,F. S., 2 Hemingway 3-4 Roosevelt,F. D., 7 Perlman, Itzhak Per6n, Eva Duarte de Peron, Juan Borges 1 Peron bio, I Perot, H. Ross Perry, Oliver Hazard Pershing,John Joseph Fairbanks I Stanton, C. E., 1 Perugino, Pietro [Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci] Raffael bio P6tain, [Henri] Philippe Peter I [Peter the Gre at], Czar Peter Ill, Czar Alexander I 1 Catherine Il bio Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3d Earl of Peterson,Oscar Fitzgerald,E., bio Peterson,Verita Bogart t Petrie, Sir Flinders Murray, M., bio Petronius, Gaius ["Petronius Arbiter"] Pettit, Charles Rodgers 2 Phaedrus La Fontaine bio Pharnaces II Caesar 5 Phelps, William Lyon Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh Elizabeth II 2,, 5 Philip II, King of Macedon Alexander III bio, 1, 2 Demosthenesbio Dionysius II 1 Philip II, King of Spain Mary I bio, 1, Philip III, King of Spain 'l' Cervantes Saavedra Philip V, King of Spain Philip the Acarnanian Alexander III 5 Philip, John Woodward Philipp, Isidore Bart6k 1 Philippe,Duc d'Orl6ans Voltaire 1, Phillips, Captain Mark Anne, Princes s, bio Phillips, Wendell Phocion Demosthenes1 Piatigorsky, Gregor Furrwdngler 1 Heifetz 3 Picabia, Francis Picasso,Claude Gilot bio, 1 Picasso,Pablo Braque bio, 1 Diaghilev 3 Gilot bio Stein 7 Picasso,Paloma Gllot bio Piccard, Auguste Piccard,Jean Felix Piccard 1 Pickford, Mary Fairbanks bio, 1 Picon, Molly Pillet, Leon Meyerbeer 3 Pinckney, Charles C. Adams,I., 1, Pinza, Ezio Piper, John George VI 2 Pitt, William Fox, C. J., bio S7ilkes 5 Plante,Jacques 'Vforsley 1 Plasteras Churchill, W., 39 Plato Emerson 6 s bio Socrate Thales 3 Pliny [Pliny the Younger] Plomer, William Plon-Plon. SeeNapoleon Joseph Charles Paul Plotinus Plutarch

Parker, Sir Hyde Nelson 4 Parker, Quannah Parmenion Alexander III 6 Parr, Samuel Parrhasius Zeuxts "1, Parrish, Maxfield Parsons,John Norbury 1 Partridge, John Pascal,Blaise Pasteur,Louis Lister bio 'Walter Pate, Budge 1 Pater, Walter Patti, Adelina Rossini 3 Patton, George Slmith], Jt. Paul l, Czar Alexander I 1 Paul III, Pope Michelangelo 3 Paul IV, Pope Rizzuto 1 Pavlen, Adrian Nurmi 1 Pavlova, Anna Diaghil ev hio Payne, John Howard Peabody, Elizabeth Peard, John Whitehead Pearson,Hesketh Tree 5 Pearson,Richard Jones,J. P., 1-2 Peary, Robert Edwin Peck, Gregory Peel, Robert Byron 1 Peel, Sir Robert Llllie bio Pegler,Westbrook Truman 2 Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Smith, F. E., 8 Pembroke,'S7illiam, 3d Earl of Pembroke bio Penfield, \Tilder Galvani 1 Penn, \Tilliam Charles II 5 Fox, G., 1 Pennell,Joseph Bellows I

69r
4 Caesar Poe,Edgar Allan PoggioBracciolini, Gian Francesco Polidori,John M., L Shelley, Polignac,Cardinal de du Deffand, 1 K. Polk, James Buchanan1" Pollini Previn 2 Polya,George Hilbert!,2 Pompadour,Jeanne-Antoinette Marquise Poisson, d'Etoiles Louis XV 4 Maurepasbio Pompeia Caesar2 Pompey bio, 4 Caesar Pompidou,Georges Nixon 5 Poole,Oliver Brian Sanderson' lst Baron Pooleof Aldgate Pope,Alexander Bowlesbio Cibber bio Dennisbio Hyde, C., bio Kneller 1 Pope,Arthur UPham Pope,GeneralJohn Stuart L Porson,Richard HousmanL Porter,KatherineAnne \7ylie 1 Portland,Lord Devonshire1 Portman,Eric Evans,E., 5 Porus AlexanderIII 7 Pougnet, Jean Sir T., "l'2 Beecham, Ezra Pound, Abercrombie1 Melanie de PourtalEs, Eug6nie1 Poussin,Nicolas Powell,Anthony Vidal 1 Powell,ThomasReed Dewey, J., 2 Preminger,Erik Lee Lee,G. R., L Previn,Andr6 Monteux L Pringle,Sir John Prokofiev,Sergei Protogenes Apelles1 Proust,Marcel Mugnier bio PtolemyI Euclid 1 Puccini,Giacomo Toscanini4-5 Pulitzer,Joseph Hearst2 Purcell,Henry Dennis2 Purchas 2 Coleridge Pushkin,Alexander Putnam,Israel Pyl., ErnestTaylor Pyrrhus Pythagoras Quatigiani family CastracaniL Armand de Quatrefages, Virchow 2 William Douglas, Queensberry, 4th Duke of Marquis of Queensberry, rU7ilde 13 Quennell,Peter Fleming,I., 1 Quesnay,Frangois Quin, James Quincy,Josiah Livermore L Rabelais,Frangois Rabi, Isidor Isaac Rachel Rachmaninoff,Sergei Racine,Jean Allais 2 bio,23 Boileau Rachel3 Radiguet,Raymond Cocteau4 Raft, George Raglan,FitzRoy JamesHenry 1st Baron Somerset, Raikes,Alice Carroll, L., 2 Rainier III [RainierLouis Henri MaxenceBertrandde Grimaldil Raleigh,Sir Walter 'Vf., 34 Churchill,

INDEX

OF NAMES

Coke bio I bio Elizabeth Gilbert,H., bio Srinivasa Ramanuian, Ramsey,[Arthur] Michael Randolph, John C l a y ,H . , 2 Herbert Ransom, Adams,F. P., I Raper,Kenneth Bonner L Raphael[RaffaelloSanzio] Caroto bio Julius ll bio LeoXl 19 Picasso del Piombo Sebastiano bio Rasputin Yusupovbio Ravel,Maurice Gershwin,G., 5 R"y, Maud Thomson,G., L Raynal, Abb6 Guillaume Thomas Frangois Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Reading, of 1st Marquess g bio, I Readin Reading,Stella,Marchionessof Reagan,Ronald Dempsey1 3 Eisenhower FranEoise R6camier, Jeanne Julie Adelaide Stadl4 Talleyrand5 Reed, Ji- 'W. 'S7hite, A., L Reed,Thomas Brackett T., 4 Roosevelt, Rees,Llewellyn Morley, R., 2 Reger,Max Rehan,Ada Reiman,Donald H. Brougham2 Ramsay Reinagle, ConstableL Reincken, J. A. Bach,J. S., 1 Reiner,Carl Brooks,M., 3 Reinhardt, Max Coward 6 Alfred Reisenauer, Remington,Frederic Hearst L

INDEX

OF NAMES

592
Robert, L6opold Robespierre,MaximilienFranqois-Marie Isidore de Danton bio de Gaulle 4 Fouche bio Mirabeau 3 Paine bio Robey, George Dreyschock 1 Robinson, Edward G. Goldwvn 4 Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Sugar Rty L o u i s ,1 . , 2 Rochambeau,Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Latzun bio Roche, Sir Boyle Rochefort, Comtessede Nivernais 1 Rochefort, fVictor] Henri, Marquis de RochefortLuEay Daudet 1 Rochester,John Wilmot, Earl of Barrow 1" C h a r l e sI I b i o , 3 , 8 Rockefeller, John D[avison], Sr. McCormick bio Rockefeller, J., Jr., bio Rockefeller, \/., bio Rockefeller, John D[avison], Jr. Rockefeller, William Stillman bio Rockne, Knute Gipp 1, Rodgers, Richard Charles Hammerstein bio Rodin, Auguste ']., Brancusi Fallidres I Renoir 4 Shaw, G. B., 23 Rodzinski, Artur Roederer, Pierre Talleyrand 4 Roger of \ilTendover Godiva 1 Rogers, Ginger Astaire bio, 3 Hayward bio, 1 Rogers, John HolmeS,J., 4 Rogers, Samuel Byron 2 Porson 5 Rogers, Will Coolidge 13 Marshall, T. R., 1, Rohan-Chabot,Chevalier de Voltaire 3 Roland, Jean Roland bio Roland, Jeanne Manon Romanoff, Mike fHarry F. Gerguson] Bogart 1 Rommel, General Erwin Montgomery, B. L., bio Wavell bio Romney, George Fuseli 2 Roosevelt, [Anna] Eleanor Kaufman 17 Roosevelt,F. D.r 2, 4 Truman 1 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Churchill, lUU., 20,22 Einstein 10 George VI 3 Leahy bio Long 2 MacArthur, D.r 2 Mayer 1 Roosevelt, 8., bio Thomas, N., 1, Truman bio, 1 Roosevelt, Theodore Astor, N., 5 Holmes, F. D., I Hoover 2 Jusserand1,r2 Knox, P. C., 1, Longworth bio, 1 Morgan 9 Parker, Q., I Robinson, E. A., bio, 2 Roosevelt, T., Jr., bio Root bio Sargent,J. S., 4 Taft, W. H., 2 Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore Jusserand3 Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Root, Elihu Roper, til(illiam More, T., 2 Rops, F6licien Rorem, Ned Stein 7 Rose, Billy Stravinsky 5 Rosenbloom, Max Rosenthal, Moriz

Renoir,Jean Gabin bio Renoir, PierreAuguste Picasso t8 Repplier,Agnes Reuther,Walter Revilus, Caninius Cicero3 Reynolds, Sir Joshua Fuseli1 Gainsborough 2 Haydn 4 Siddons 2 RezaPahlavi, ShahMohammed Bacall1 Rhodes, CecilJohn Rice, Grantland Lardner3 Ruth 4 Rich, John Richard I, King of England [RichardCoeurde Lion (theLionheart)l Eleanorof Aquitarnebio RichardII, King of England Henry IV 1 Richards, I. A. Eliot, T. S., 1 RichardsonJonathan Carolin- of Ansbach1 Richardson, Sir Ralph Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jeandu Plessis, Duc de [Cardinal] Marie de M6dtcis bio, I Mazarin bio Richelieu, Louis FranEois Armand de Vignerot du Plessis,Duc de [Mar6chal] Louis XVI 1 Richter,Hans Riddell,George Allardice,Lord Greenwood1 Ridley,Nicholas Latimer 1 Rigaud, Hyacinthe Riley,JamesWhitcomb Rimbaud,Arthur Verlain e bio Ritchie,Anne Thackeray Butler,5., 2 Rivarol, Antoine de Rivera, Antonio Rizzuto, Phil Robbe-Grillet, Alain Nabokov 3 Robert I [Robert the Bruce], King of Scotland

693
2 Pachmann 2, 5 Paderewski Thibaud 1 Ross,Harold 2 Benchley Parker,D., 1 Thurber t-2 Ross, John Smith,S.,3 Rossetti,Dante Gabriel Rossini,GioacchinoAntonio Liszt 1 Malibran bio Meyerbeer2 Rostand,Edmond Guitry 3 Roth, Philip L Susann lU(lilliam Rothenstein, Wilde 4 Rothschild,Alfred Asquith,H., 1 Rothschild,Sir Nathan Meyer, lst Baron Rousseau, JeanJacques Voltaire 5 Raoul de Roussyde Sales, Goldwyn 14 Routh, Martin Rowland, Henry Augustus Royall, Anne Adams, J. Q., 1 Royce,Josiah 'W., 1" James, Rubinstein,Anton Rubinstein,Arthur Heifetz 3 Laughton3 Rachmaninoff1 Rudolf, Crown Prince FrancisFerdinandbio Ruggles,Carl Claude Rulhidres, Talleyrand5 Ruskin, John Buckland1 Beniamin Russell, Lawrence, J., L Russell,Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Belloc2 Eden,A., 1 Moore, G. E., 1 \Thiteh eadbio Russell,Bill Baylor 1 Russell,GeorgeWilliam 2 Joyce,James, Russell, John, lst Earl Arnim 1 Ruth, GeorgeHerman ["Babe"] Aaron bio Caruso2 Rutherford,Ernest,lst Baron Bohr bio Cockcroft bio, I Ryan, Paddy Sullivafi, J. L., bio Ryland,William Blake,W.r 2 Ryleyev,Kondraty NicholasI 1 Rysanek, Leoni Bing 10 Ryskind,Morrie Kaufman 12 Eero Saarinen, Lady Katherine Sackville, Giles 1 Edward Sackville-West, Charles,5th Baron Sadat,Anwar Begin bio Michael Sadleir, Trollope,A., 1 Russell Sage, CharlesAugustin Sainte-Beuve, Charlesde Saint-Evremond, Marguetelde Saint-Denis, de Seigneur Lenclosbio Saint-Sans, [Charles]Camille Bart6k 1 Duc de Saint-Simon, L Gesvres Salinger, J. D. of Countess Salisbury, Edward III 1 Salisbury,Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquessof Churchill,R. H. S., bio Salk,JonasE. Gilot bio Felix Salmond, Hofmann 1 SaloteTupou, Queen Churchill,W., 25 Samson Corday 1 Sand,George Chopin bio Mussetbio Carl Sandburg, Herford 2 Red Sanders, Lombardi1

INDEX

OF NAMES

Sandwich,John Montagu, 4th Earl of \Tarburton L rUfilkes 5 George Santayana, Pablo Sarasate [y Navascu6s], de Gene Sarazen, Sardou,Victorien Zangwill 1 Sargent, John Singer Sargent,Sir Malcolm GeorgeVI 1 Saroyan,William Arlen 3 Sartre, Jean-Paul de Gaulle 7 rUfilder5 Satie,Erik Diaghilev3 Satyrus 2 Demosthenes Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Albert, Prince,bio Saxton,May LivermoreL Can Grandedella Scala, Dante 1 Scarron,Paul Maintenon bio Scheffel, JosefVictor von FriedrichWilhelm Schelling, von Joseph bio Emerson Schick,Bela Schiller, JohannChristoph Friedrichvon Goethebio Hugo 5 Schillingr, Joseph Friedrich Schleiermacher, Daniel Ernst Arthur M., Jr. Schlesingr, CannonL Marian Cannon Schlesingr, Cannon1 Hocking 1 Heinrich Schliemann, Artur Schnabel, Horowitz I 2 Rosenthal Schonb erg2 Stefan Schnabel, el 2 Schnab Schiidl,Max Scholl,Aur6lien Christian Friedrich Schcinbein, Arnold Sch6nbrg, Arthur Schopenhauer,

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OF NAMES

694
Selznick, David O. Goldwyn 1,2 Semonville Talleyrand 7 Seneca, LuciusAnnaeus Senz, Eddie Chaliapin 3 Servetus, Michael Servilia Caesar 5 Seuss, Dr. [Theodore Seuss Geisell Severn, Joseph Keats3 S6vign6, Marie de RabutinChantal,Marquisede Sevitzky, Fabien Rodzinski1 Seward, William Henry Shackleton, Ernest David bio Lloyd George5 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,1st Earl of Shakespeare, John Shakespeare 1 Shakespeare, William Adams,F. P., 3 Allais 2 Arditi I Auden3 Bridger2 Copland1 Cushman 1 Fuselibio Gilbert,W. S.,2 5., bio Johnson, Jonsonbio Pembroke bio Porson4 Reinhardt1 Shelley, P. B., I Stein4 Tree4 Victoria 2 Sharif,Omar [Michel Shalhoubl Sharkey, Thomas Mizner,W., 7 Sharp,William Shaw,Charlotte S h a wG , .8.r22 Shaw,GeorgeBernard Barrie2, 8 Caine1 Chesterton 4, 5 Churchlll,UI., 29 Epstein1 John,A., bio Reinha rdt bio Skinner, C. O., I Terry 2 Thorndikebio Shaw,Irwin Shaw,Norman Whistler7 Shaw,Wilbur Shearer, Norma Hayes, H.r 2 Shearing, George[Albert] Sheean, Vincent O'Hara 1, \X/ilfred Sheed, Belloc3 Sheen, FultonJ[ohn] John XXIII 3 Shelburne, William Petty, Lst Marquis of Lansdowne Shelley, Harriet Shelley, M., bio Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, PercyBysshe Shelley, M., bio, 1-2 PercyFlorence Shelley, Shelley, M., 2 Sheridan, Philip Henry Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Fox, C. I., 4 Kelly, M., 1, Tooke 2 Sheridan, Tom Sheridan, R. B., 13-14 Tooke 2 Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherwood, Robert Benchley 13, 15 Mencken2 Shi Huangdi Shor,Toots Shorey, Paul Hutchins3 Short,Bob Hundley 1, Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitriyevich Rodzinski1 Shriver,Eunice de Gaulle10 Shuter,Edward Sibelius, Jean Sickert,Walter Richard Whistler 15 Siddal,Elizabeth Rossettibio, 2 Sarah Siddons, I Gainsborough Kemble, J. P., bio

Schubert, Franz Reger 1 Schumann, Robert Brahms bio Cortot 1 Schumann-Heink, Ernestine Schuster,Max L. Simon, R. L., bio Schwartz, Arthur Dretz bio Schwartz, Maurice Schwarzenberg, Felix, Prince Schweitzer, Albert Santayana1 Scipio Africanus Cornelia bio Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius Scopes,John T. Bryan bio Darrow 3 Scott, Lady Scott, W., 2 Scott, Sir Peter Norden 1 Scott, Robert Falcon Oates bio, I Scott, Sir Walter Byron 2 Robert I 1 Scribner, Charles Hemingway 3 Scripps, Edward Wyllis Seagrave,Sterling Luce, H. R., 1, Sebastiano del Piombo, Fra Secombe,Harry Sellers2 Sedgwick, A. C. Marquand 1 Sedgwick, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, John Sedgwick, Theodore Sedley,Catherine Sedley 1 Sedley, Sir Charles Seeley,Sir John Robert Seferis, George [George Seferiadesl Seligman,Mrs. Tosti 1 Sellers,Anne Sellers 1 Sellers, Peter Selwyn, Edgar Goldwyn 1 Selwyn, George Augustus Bruce 1

695
William Siddons, Siddons1 Sidney,Sir Philip Confucius2 r bio Spense Abbd Emmanuel-Joseph, Sieyds, de Sigismund,Holy Roman Emperor Sills, Beverly Al Silverman, Ali s Silverman,Fred Silvers,Phil Chevalier3 Simenon,Georges Gabin bio Samuel Simmons, Milton 1 Simon,John Allsebrook,lst Viscount Simon,Richard Leo Warfield Simpson,'Wallis Edward Ylll bio Sinatra,Frank Romanoff 2 Singer,IsaacBashevis Sitwell, Edith \U7alton bro 'Waterton L Sitwell,Sir GeorgeReresbY Sitwell,8., bio, I Sitwell,Sir Osbert Huxley,4., 4 Lutyens2 E., bio,2 Sitwell, Sitwell,G., bio, t-2 Strachey1 Swinburne1 Sitwell,Sacheverell DiaghilevL Sitwell,E., bio SixtusIV, Pope Juliusll bio Skeat,Walter rU7illiam 4 Gosse Skelton,John Skelton,Red [Richard] Cohn 1 Skinner,Cornelia Otis Skinnerbio, I Skinner,Otis Leo Slezak, Smith, Adam Smith,Alfred Emanuel Smith, Bessie Smith,Catherine Smith,S., 2 E[dwin], lst Smith,F[rederick] Earl of Birkenhead Collins,M., I Smith,GeneralArthur til(ravell1 Smith,H. Allen Fowler 3 Smith,LewisJ. Divine 2 Smith, Logan Pearsall Smith,MysteriousBilly Mizner,'W.,5 Smith, Robert Percy Smith,S., 13 Smith,Sir Sidney Smith,S.,2 Smith, Sydney am l-2 Brough CanningL L Ellenborough Grote L Macauley3 Russell , J., bio 4 Siddons \U7ebste r, D ., 9 Smuts,Jan Christi aan Smyth, Dame Ethel Edward VII 9 Sam Snead, Snow,C. P. tU(Iells 3 Antony Charles Snowden, Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Beaton2 SobhuzaII, King Socrates 2 Antisthenes Lydia Sokolova, Karsavina1 Solomon,King Solon Franklin 10 Thales4 CharlesSeymour, Somerset, 6th Duke of CharlotteFinch Somerset, L Somerset et, ElizabethPercy Somers 1. Somerset Beniamin Sonnenberg, Williams 4 Beniamin, Sonnenberg, Jr., \Tilliams 4 Henriette Sontag, Malibran L SophiaDorothea,Queen Euler 1 Sophocles Franklin10

INDEX

OF NAMES

Porson2 Sorel,Felicia Tamiris 1 Ted Sorenson, Nixon 4 Sothern,Edward Lincoln,A., 38 Soustelle, Jacques de Gaulle5 Henry Southampton, \ilfriothesley, 3rd Earl of 2 Spenser Thomas Southampton, Wriothesley,4th Earl of Cromwell 14 Robert Southey, Brontd 2 ge bio Colerid Nelson617 Porson4 Telford bio Marquis de Souvre, Louis XV 2 Spaak,Paul Henri Robert William Speaight, FrancisJoseph Spellman, Herbert Spencer, Raine, Lady Spencer, Cartland1 P. Selden Spencer, Coolidge12 Stephen Spender, Connolly 1 P.8., bio Shelley, Edmund Spenser, Olga Spessiva, Bakst 1 Mickey [Frank Spillane, Morrison] Spooner,William Archibald Spoto,Donald Williams 1 William M. Springer, Reed2 Sprott,Walter John KeynesL CharlesHaddon Spurgeon, Spurinna 9 Caesar Squire,Sir John Collings StaI,Anne Louise Germaine [Necker],Baronnede Gibbon 1 Necker blo Talleyrand5 Stafford,Jean Stair,John Dalrymple, Earl of Louis XIV 8

INDEX OF NAMES

696
Edward Stillingfleet, ll 7 Charles Stillman,JamesA. Stimson,Henry Lewis Stokowski,Leopold Stoppard,Tom Story,Joseph Marshall,J., 1, Story, Mrs. Marx, G., LL Stout,John Stout L Stout,Lucetta Stout L Stout,Rex !(rright, F. L., 2 Stowe,Harriet Beecher Beeche r bio Twain 18 Strachey, [Giles]Lytton Strasberg, Lee Clurman 1 Straus, Genevidve Haldvy Aubernon1 Strauss, Johann Brahms8-9 Strauss, Richard Stravinsky,Igor Dali 2 Nijinsky 1 Schonb erg2 Stresemann, Gustave Briand 1 Strong,GeorgeTempleton Dix 1 I7hitney 1 Stuart,Gilbert Washington9 Stuart,JamesEwell Brown T. 1., 6 Jackson, Stubbs, John Stuhldreher,Harry Stukeley, William Newton I Sudermann, Hermann Suetonius Agrippina 2 Nero 2 Sullivan, Anne Mansfield Keller I Sullivan,Sir Arthur Seymour 'W. Gilbert, 5., bio, 3 Sullivan,Ed Burns4 Sullivan,John Lawrence Sulzbergr, Iphigene Ochs . See Ochs,Iphigene Summerall,CharlesPelot Sumner,Charles
Grant, U. S., L0 Howe, J. W., I Susann, Jacqueline Sutherland, Donald Bankhead 12 Sutherland, Harriet, Duchess of Russell , J., 2 Victoria 4 Suvorov, Alexander Vasilievich Svyatopolk Swaffer, Hannen Coward 7 Swanson, Claude Augustus Swedenborg, Emanuel Swift, Jonathan Addison bio Partridge 1 Scipio Nasica Serapio 1, Swinbuffi, Algernon Charles Gosse bio, 2-3 Sykes, Christopher rUfaugh 5 Sykes, Sir Frederick Law 1 Sylvester, Robert Frisco &io Szell, George Szent-Gyrirgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt Szilard, Leo Rabi 1 Tacitus Bacon 2 Taft, Horace Dutton Taft, Lorado Taft, William Howard Beecham,Sir. T., 9 Hutchins 1 Lowell, A., 1 Robinson, E. A.r 2 Smith, F. E., 9 Taft, H. D., bio Taglioni, Marie Tamiris 1 Talleyrand-P6rigord, Charles Maurice de Alexander I 1 Charles X 2 Chateaubriand 2 Fouch6 2 Hamilton, A., I Isabey 1 Mirabe au 2 Napoleon I 5, 1,4 Richeli eu bio Stadl 2-3 Tamagno, Francesco Tamiris, Helen [Helen Becker]

Stalin,Josephfiosif Dzhugashvilil Beria bio, I Khrushchev4-5 O'Toole 2 F. D., 5 Roosevelt, Trotsky bio Clarkson Stanfield, 1 Constable Stanley,Sir Henry Morton T., 5 Edison, Leopol d lI bio Stanton,CharlesE. Stanton,Edwin Lincoln,A., 28 Stanton,ElizabethCady Maureen Stapleton, tUfilliams3 Stark,John Steele, Sir Richard Addisonbio Garth 1 Steell, Sir John S(reilingtonL1 Steffens, Lincoln Stein,Gertrude Balmain1 UI., 2 James, Picasso 2-4 Steinbeck, Elaine Steinbeck 5 Steinbeck, John Steinberg, William Steinm etz,CharlesProteus Stengel, Casey Shor 2 Thronberry 1 Stern,Isaac Ali 4 Perlman1 Sternaux, Ludwig Blumenthal1 Sterne, Laurence S., 2L Johnson, Stevens, Thaddeus 'Wallace Stevens, Levant4 Stevens, Mrs.'S7allace Levant4 Stevenson, Adlai E[wirg] Lincoln,A., 10 Stevenson, Robert Louis Arnold 3 Gossebio Spencer 1 Steyne, Geoffrey Broun 1 Stillingfl eet,Benjamin Vesey1

697
Taper,Bernard 1 Balanchine Tauber,Richard Moln6r 8 Taylor, A. J. P. I 1 Ferdinand Taylor, Elizabeth Burton,R., bio Taylor, Jeremy bio Gosse Taylor, John Taylor, Laurette Taylor, Maxwell D[avenport] Taylor, Paul Taylor, Rosemary Previn 3 'sfalter Taylor, Sickert2 Taylor, Zachary Fillmorebio L Sherman Tchaikovsky,Pyotr Ilich Cortot 1" 3 Rosenthal Rodgers2 Tecumseh Telford, Thomas Teller, Edward Szilard bio Temple, Frederick Temple,Sir lfilliam Swift bio Teng Shih Tennyson,Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson L Babbage Brownitg, R., 1 Cameroo, J. M., 1 Carlyle4 \7ilde 8 Teresaof Avila, Saint Terry, Dame Ellen Olivier L Tertia 5 Caesar Tetrazzini, Luisa Thacketay, William MakePeace Thalberg, Irving J. Cantor 2 Mayer 2 Thales Thatcher, Denis Thatcher,Margaret er bio, I Thatch Thaw, Harry K. Mizner,W., 10 Nesbit 1 Themistocles Aristides bio Theodoric [Theodoricthe Greatl I Theodosius Ambrose bio II Theodosius Cyrus of Panopolisbio Thibaud, Jacques Thiboust,Lambert Napoleoo, J. C. P., I Thiers, Louis Adolphe Thomas,Dylan John A., bio Thomas, [Philip] Edward Thomas,Norman Thompson,Dorothy Lewis,5., t-z 2 Susann Thompson,Elspeth Tennyson4 Thompson,I7illiam Hepworth L Seeley Thomson,Sir Basil Foch 3 Thomson, Sir GeorgePaget Lindemann bio Thomson,Joseph Thomsoo,J. J. Bohr bio G., bio Thomson, Thomson,Kenneth R. H., 1 ThomaS, Thomson, Robert Thomson,Roy Herbert' lst Baron Thomson of Fleet Thoreau, Henry David Dodge L Thorndike, Rev. A. J. \U(/. Thorndike L Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorold, A. L. 5 Labouchere Thorpe, JiThronbrry, Marv Thucydides Edman L Thurber, James Ross4-5, l2-I3 Thurber,Mary AgnesFisher Thurber 3 Thurlow, Edward, lst Baron Burke 5 R. B., 1 Sheridatr, Tichatschek, Joseph Slezak1 Ticknor, George Hamilton, A., L Tintoretto fiacopo Robusti] Titian Giorgionebio

INDEX

OF NAMES

Titus 2 Vespastan Toch-a-way P. H., I Sheridan, Todd, Ann Korda L Togo, Admiral Bryan 1" Toklas,Alice B. Balmain1 Steinbio, 5-7 Tolstoy, Leo [Nikolaevich], Count Tolstoy, Countess McCullersL Tooke, John Horne H. Tooker,Joseph CushmanL Toscanini, Arturo Paolo Tosti, Francesco Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Goldwyn 11" Townshend,Charles Toye, \fendy Coward 3 Tracy, Spencer Hepburn bio Traian Hadrian bio Trapp family Haydn 2 Traubel,Helen Durante4 Travers,Ben Hawtrey L Travers,William R. Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm ft I Bancro \ililde 10 Edward John Trelawtry, P. B., 2 Shelley, Trench, Richard Chenevix Trilling, Lionel Trollope, Anthony Trollope, F., bio Trollope, Frances Trotsky, Leon [Lev Davidovich Bronstein] Troy, Hugh Trudeau,Edward Livingston Trudeau, PierreElliott Truman, Bess Levant 8 Truman 317 Truman, Flarry S. Blake,E., bio Dewey,F., I Gallup 1 Leahy 1.

INDEX

OF NAMES

698
Urbino, Duke of Aretino I Titian 1 Ustinov, Peter Utrillo, Maurice Modigliani 1 Valdes,Ramiro Castro2 Valeriani,Richard Kissinger 2 Vallon, Annette Wordsworthbio Valois,Margueritede Nerval 2 Valois,Ninette de Baylis bio Van Buren, Martin Vanderbilt,Alice Vanderbilt,Cornelius Vanderbilt,V. H., bio Westinghouse 1 Vanderbilt,Cornelius, II Vanderbilt,A., bio Vanderbilt,Gloria Vanderbilt,A., 1, Vanderbilt,Grace Astor, N., 5 Vanderbilt,Reginald Vanderbilt, A., 1 Vanderbilt,Sophia Vanderbilt,C., 3 Vanderbilt, William Henry Van Doren,Mamie Belinsky1 Van Doren, Mark Van Dyck, Anthony Gainsborough bio, 2 Van Gogh, Vincent Fry 1 Troy 1 Van Vechten,Carl Stravinsky 2 Varah, Chad Vasari,Giorgio Columbus2 Michel angelo7 Vatel Vaucanson, de Jacques du Deffand 3 Vaughan,Herberr Alfred, Cardinal Adler 1 Vaughan-Thomas,'V7ynford SmutsI VaughanI7illiams, Ralph Beecham, Sir T., 4 Vega Carpio, Lope F6lix de Verdi, Giuseppe
Bing 10 Liszt 1 Tamagno bio Verlaine, Paul Verrall, Arthur Woollgar Vesey, Elizabeth Vespasian fTitus Flavius SabinusVespasianus] Victor Amadeus II Victoria, Queen Albert, Prince, bio, 1-2 Bismarck 8 Cambridge bio Carroll, L., 1, Cetewayo bio Coward 5 D i s r a e l i5 , 1 5 , 1 6 Edward YII bio, 3-5 Eug6nie bio George V 8 Grant, U. S., 13 Kingsale 1 Lear 1,-2 Melbou rne bio Mountbatten bio Paderewski I Palmerston 2 \ilTellington 1"4 Whewell I tilTilde 14 Vidal, Gore Vig6e-Lebrun, Marie-Louise Marie Antoinette 3 Villa, Pancho Villard, Oswald Garrison Frick 1 Villars, Claude-Louis-Hector Louis XIV 3 Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, Comte de Vinay, Ramon Bing 5 Virchow, Rudolf Visconti, Luchino Callas 2 Vitellius, Aulus Caligula 2 Vladimir, Saint Svyatop olk bio Voiture, Vincent Bossuet L Vollard, Ambroise Cezanne I Mallarm6 1 Rops I Volney, Constantin 'S7ashington L0 Voltaire [FranEois-Marie Arouetl

Truman (continued) Levant8 Nixon 2-3 Stevenson, A. E., I Truman, Margaret Truman217 Truth, Soiournerflsabella Van Wagenerl Tshombe, Moise Kennedl, J. F., 11 Tumulry,Joseph P. S7ilson, W., 4 Tunnard,Viola Grenfell1 Tunney,Gene Demps ey l-2 Tuohy, Patrick 5 Joyce, James, Turner, Glenn Johnston1 Turner, JosephMallord William I7histle r 15 Turner, Nancy Byrd Robinson, E. A., 1, Twain, Mark [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] Coolidge 7 Depew L Dodge 1 Truman 5 Ylard 2 Tweed,William Marcy ("Boss") Cushman1 Nast 1 Tyler, GeorgeC. Kaufman8 Tynan, Kenneth Carson2 Tyrawley,JamesO'H ara,2d Baron Chesterfield 4 Uccello, Paolo Udall, Stewart Khrushchev 3 Ulbricht, Walther Unamunoy Jugo,Miguel de De Val era2 Unitas,John Untermeyer,Louis Eliot, T. S.,2 Unzelmann,Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Urban, Joseph Mizner,W., 10 Urbino, Duchess of Titian 1

699
Allais 1 Bolingbroke1 Byng bio Condorcet bio CongreveL de Gaulle 7 Denisbio Diderotbio du Deffand bio Franklin 10 Frederi ck lI bio Lenclos5 Newton L Philip V 1 Talleyrand12 von Neumann,John Voroshilov,Kliment Beria L Voss,Richard 1 Sudermann Vukovich, Bill Rube Waddell, 'Sfagner, Cosima LehmannL 'Wagner, Richard Biilow bio Furnrri ngler bio LehmannL Liszt bio, 2 Meyerbeerbio, 3 Richter bio Wolf bio tU7aldegrave, Lady Macauley1 Waley, Arthur 3 Strachey Walker, James John rUfallace, Mike Perlman1 Wallach, Eli Alfred Wallenstein, \Talter t Waller, Edmund Waller, "Fats" Basiebio Waln, Nicholas Walpole,Hor ace,4th Earl of Orford du Def fand bio Macauley1 Selwynbio til(ralpole, Robert \falpole, Sir R., 1 Walpole, Sir Robert, lst Earl of Orford Selwyn3 Walter, Bruno Walton, E. T. S. Cockcroft bio 'Walton, Sir William [Turner] Sitwell bio Warburton, William Quin 1 Ward, Artemus [CharlesFarrar Browne] A., 25 Lincoln, 'Ward, JamesAllen 14 Churchill,'W., Warden,\(illiam Gray Mizner,A., 1 \U7arder, Betsy 'W., Holmes,O. Jr., 8 \7arhol, Andy Mascagni1 Warner,Glenn "Pop" Thorpe 3 Warner, Jack 'Warnod, Andr6 1" 6 Picasso 'Warren, Herbert Lewis,C. S., L 'Warren, Leonard Merrill 1 \Ufarwick,Lord Addison 4 Washington,George Adams, J., bio, I Coolidge20 Franklin 5 Lafayette bio Painebio A. E-, 4 Stevenson, rUfalker1. \U7ashington' Martha \(Ialker t \Tashington9 Charles Waterton, 'Watson, JamesDeweY Avery bio Richard Watson, 'Watson, ThomasAugustus Bell,A. G., L Watt, Frank William 5 Steinbeck Watt, James Watterson,Henry \7atts-Dunton,Theodore Vhistler 18 Waugh, Evelyn Wavell, Archibald Percival,lst Earl \[ebb, Beatrice \7ebb bio \(rebb, Clifton Coward 13 Webb, Sidney[ames], Baron

INDEX

OF NAMES

Passfield 'S7eber, Karl Maria von Ivleyerb eerbio Webster,Daniel Adams, J. Q., 2 Clay,H.r 7 Everettbio A., 5 Jackson, T., 10 Jeffersoo, \Uflebster, Ebenezer Captain 'Webster, L 'S7ebster, D., Ezekiel '$(rebster, D., L Webster,Noah I7edekind,Frank rdt bio Reinha \7eill, Kurt Lenya bio, 1 'S(eiss, Ottocaro 9 James, Joyce, Weissmuller, Johnny Chaim Weizmann, 'Weizsicker, Carl Friedrichvon Hutchins 5 \il7elk,Lawrence Heifetz 4 Welles,Orson Barrymore, J., 8 Hearst L Welles,Utica Sir T., 1 Beecham, Wellington, Arthur WellesleY, 1st Duke of Carolineof Brunswick3 GeorgelV 2 Isabey1 NapoleonI 14 L Palmerston Raglanbio, 1' tU7ilson, Harriette, L \Ufellington, 2d Duke of Grant,U. S., 9 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] Caine L Werfel, Alma Mahler \ilferfel , Franz Ylerfel bio \Wesley, Charles Wesleybio Wesley, '!7est, John Beniamin FuseliL West, Mae West, Dame Rebecca Westbury,Lord Lear 4 George Westinghouse, Duke of Westminster, Chanel2

INDEX

OF NAMES

700
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen Wilkes, John Willard, Francis Elizabeth Caroline Willes, Sir John \filley, Peter Johnston 2 Williarn I lsfilliam the Conqueror], King of England William I, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany Bismarck bio William II, Emperor of Germany Bismarck bio Btilow 1 Edward YII bio George V 7 StraussI Wilhelmina 1 William III, King of England Cameron bio Halifax, C. M., 1, \Tilliam IV, King of England Alvanley 3 Dalton 1, Northcote 1, Victoria bio, 1, 3 'Sfilliam of Orange Sedley 1 Williams, Tennessee[Thomas Lanier tilTilliamsl B a n k h e a d1 l Taylor, L., bio Wilson, A. N. Belloc 4 Wilson, Charles Erwin Wilson, Edmund Wilson, Sir Harold Bevan 1 Butler, R. A., 1, Macmillan 3 Wilson, Harriette ril7ilson, John Campbell, T., 3 Wilson, Richard Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow Bryan bio Clemenceau 8, 10 Garfield 1 Taft, W. H., 2 Winchell, Walter tU(oollcom3 \7inter, Ella Steinbeck 1 Winterfeldt, General von Frederick II 7 Winters, Shelley fShirley Schriftl Wise, Stephen Samuel 'V7ise, T. J. Gosse3 Iilfither, George Denham L Wodehouse,Sir P[elham] GIrenville] McCoy 2 \ilodehouse, Ethel \ilTodehouse 1-z Woffington, P.g \Tojechzleschki,Stanislaus Nixon 7 Wolf, Hugo Wolfe, Humbert Churchill, W., 10 Wolfe, James Wolfe, Thomas Fitzgerald,F. S., 2 \ilfolff, Umberto. SeeWolfe, Humberr \Tollstonecraft, Mary Shelley,M., bio \7olsey, Thomas Cardinal S k e l t o n ,1 . , 1 Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene \Toodhull, Victoria Vanderbilt, C., 3 \ilfoolf, Leonard Smyth 1 \7oolf, Virginia Smyth 1 Woollcott, Alexander Adams, F. P., 4 Bankhead 3 Chesterton 12 Dietz I Kaufman ll MacArthur 1 Ross 10 Wordsworth, Mary \Tordsworth I Wordsworth, William Coleridge bio Emerson bio Housman I Scott 5 Worsley, "Gump" [Lorne] Wren, Sir Christopher Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville and Wilbur Wyatt, James Beckford bio Wycherley, William Wyler, William

Wharton, Edith Newbold Astor,M., I Mugnier 2 \ilharton, Thomas'S7harton, Duke of Addison2 Wheatcroft, Harry N. Charles Wheeler, Ford, H.r Z Wheeler, Joseph Whewell,William S., 11 Smith, Whistler,JamesAbbott McNeill Buller 1 Leighton1 Wilde 6-7 W'hite,Andrew Dickson White, Sanford Mizner,W., 10 Nesbit 1 White, William Allen Whitefield,George Chesterfield 1 Whitehead,Alfred North Plato bio Russell, Bertra nd, bio Whitelrw, William [Stephen Ian], lst ViscountWhitelaw of Penrith Whitman, Walt rVhitney,Eli Whitney bio Whitney, Stephen IThittier,John Greenleaf Dodge 1 Emerson 7 \7hyte, L. L. Einstein5 'V(ridor, Charles-Marie Bart6k 1 Wieniawski,Henri \07ilberforce, Samuel Huxley, T. H., 1. Wild, Jonathan Wilde, Oscar Bernhardt9 Harris,F., I Ouida 1 Pater1,-2 Ruskin 1 Shaw, G. B., l, 18 Whistler14 Wilder, Billy [Samuel] Monroe 2 Wilding, Michael WilhelmII, Kaiser.See William
II, Emperor of Germ any

70r
Goldwyn3, 17 Wylie, Elinor Xantippe 2 Socrates Xenophon s bio Socrate Xerxes,King Yaroslov olk bio Svyatop Yasodhora,Princess Buddhabio Yeats,William Butler Mrs. P., 1 Campbell, Gogarty 2 2 Joyce,James, Moore, G. A.r 2 tWrilde 15 Yerkes,Myra Moore Mizner,'W.,12 Yoshida, Shigeru Young, Edward Swift 6 Young, Sir John Jonson2 Yusupov, PrinceFeliks Zangwill, Israel Zanuck, Darryl Goldwyn 2 Zeno Zeuxis Kneller 2 Zhao Gao Shi Huangdi 1

INDEX

OF NAMES

Ziegfeld, Florenz Houdini 2 Zimmerman, Arthur Gerard 1 Zimmermann, Georg von II 11 Frederick Zog I, King Zola, Emile Holmes,O. \U(/., Jt., 3 Zukofsky, Louis Barnes1 Zukor, Adolph Kaufman15 Zuloaga, Ignacio Falla 1 Zuppke, Bob Grange1

a24 $--'INDEX OF SUBJECTS

abolitionists Anthony 1 Garrison 1 Phillips 1,-2 Seealso absentmindedness. forgetfulness Bowlesl-2 Brodie,B. C., 1 Cecil 1 Chesterton9-ll Dewey, J., 2 Dudley 1 Edman 1-3 Hilbert l-2 3 Hofmann '!(/., 3 James, Lawson L LessingL Newton 11 RamseyL Schodl1 Smith,A., 1 Tennyson2 Thales3 ToscanimT Trollope, A., 1. Seealso scholars academics. Agassiz1 Atkinson 1 Auden 3 Bradley1 Cohen 1 Copeland1 Edman 1 Kittredge 1
Oppenheimer 1 Phelps 1 Trilling 1 accents, foreign Bevin 1 Chesterton 1 Choate 5 Curtiz 1 Heyerdahl 1

Meir 3 Shaw,G. B. 11 Thackeray2 accidents Adams,F. P., 2

Aeschylus 1 EdwardVII 11 Lewis,C. S., 5 L i l l i e2 , 9 Lindemann1 Mahafty I Nagurski 4 Napoleon,E., 3 Nixon 5 2 Richardson Routh 3 Smith,B., 1 Thales3 Twain 4 accomplishment Armstrotrg,N., 1 accountants O'Neal 1 accusations Jeffreys1 acrobats Dumaspire 7 Heiferz I acronyms Verdi 1 von Neumann 1. acting Barrie 10 Barrymore,J.r 2-S Hitchcock 2 Seealso actorsand actresses. theater movies;rehearsals; Astaire1, 3 10 Bankhead Barrymore,M., 3 Benchl ey ll Bernhardt2, 4, 6-7, 14-15 Booth,J. B., tr 34 Braithwaite1 Burton, R., 1 Calhern 1 Campbell,Mrs. P., 2 Capus1 Chaplin1 Cibber 1 Cohan 1 Cooper,D., 1 Cooper,Gary, 1 Cooper,Gladys,1

Courtneidge1 Coward 1-3, 5-5, 8, 11' Cowl 1 Crawford L Cukor 1 M., 1 Davies, Denis 2 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 7 Evans,8., t-2, 5 Faulkner5 Field,E., 1 Fiske 1 Fonda 1 Foote L Garbo I-2 Garrick l-2 Gielgud l-2, 5 Gilbert,J., I Gilbert,V. S., 5-5, 9 Goldwyn 4, 12 Graziano 2 Guitry 3 Gwenn 1 Hayes,H., l-2 Hitchcock2,8 Holland 1 Horton L Howard, L., 1 S., 19 Johnson, KaufmanL, 19 F., 2 Kemble, . Kemble, J. P., t-2 Kern L Klopfer L Korda 1 Lawson 1 Lincoln,A., 38 Lunt 1-3 dy 2 Macrea Manning 1 Matthews 1-2 Mature 1, 3 Merman L Merrill 1 Moliire 1 Monroe 2 Morley, R., 1 Morris, C., 1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

704
Weissmuller 2 adolescents Blume 1 advancement Ambrose1 advertising Martinelli 1 Pulitzer1 'W., Rogers, 3 advice Butler,S., 3 Clark,M.'W., 1 Curie 1 Eliot, T. S., 5 Emerson5 Foote 7 Gabor 5 Gaisford 1 Harris, G., I Hartleben L Hitchcock 2 Horowitz t Huxley, A., 5 Paige1 Root 1 Routh 2 Spellman 1 Swedenborg L Tracy 3 Truman 5 tUflright, F. L., 1. affectations. Seealsosnobbery Jowett 2 Lenclos2 Kern 1 tUThistler 18 afterlife Thomas, D., 2 Thoreau 1 ege Gabor 4 Sirwell, 8.,2 agents Hayward 1 Lazar I aging.Seealso old age Auber 2 Churchill,\f., 5 Grant, C., I Maugham 2 Niven 2 Picasso 2 Swift 5 Yeats2 agnostics Brooks,P., 1 Darrow 3 Fields6 agreements \U7ebb 1 airplanes. Seealso flying Corrigan 1 Metaxas L Philip, Prince,4 alibis Auerbach1 alliances, national Pfltain 2 Philip V t Talleyrand 11 ambiguity Croesus1. Darius I 1 Sheridan, R. 8., 1,1 ambition Agrippina 1 BeatonI BeckettL Bernstein1 Caesar7 Churchill,$(/.,5 Empedocles I GeorgeIII 3 Henry VIII 1 Herford 4 John XXIII 5 Kennedyr l. P., 3 Montgomery,B. L.r 2 Picasso 1 Renoir2 Rhodes 3 RichardI 2 Russell, Bill, I America Talleyrand3 rU7ilde 3 Americans Acheson2 Gorki 1 amputation Raglan 1 amusement parks Gorki 1 anagrams Davies, E., 1, ancestors Astor, N., 5 Gladstone 3 Kaufman10 LiliencronL ancestry Dumaspire 3 Gardner, I. S.,2 Iphicrates 1 Margaret L Smith,S., 7
anecdotes Harris, F., I

actors,actresse s (continued) Nabokov 3 Olivier 1-2 O'Neal 1 O'Toole 2 Parker, D., 8, ll Rachel3, 6 Racine 1. Rehan1 SchwartzI 4 Sellers Shakespeare l, 4 Shaw, G.8.r 22 Siddons1, 34 Skinner, C. O., 1 Skinner,O., L 1 Speaight Taylor, L., 1 Terry l-2 Thorndike 3 Tracy 1-3 Tree 1, 3-5 UnzelmannI Ustinov 2 rUfallachI rU[ilder1 Wilding 1 Woffington 1 Ziegfeld 1 Adam Smith,S.,9 admiration Churchill,W., 1,4 Goethe2 Modigliani 1 admirers Alcott, L. M., L Allen, F., 3 Anders L Bart6k 1 Bennett,A., 5 Brooks,M., 3 Cabell 1 Cantor 8 Carroll,J., 1 Galli-Curci1 Gray 1 Guinness 1 Hemingway9 Holmes,O. \U(/., Sr.r7 T. J., 5 Jacksotr, Joyce,James,8 Klein 1 Koussevitzky 1 Lind 1 Paderewski 5 ShawG , .8.r 22 4 Stengel 10 Stravinsky

705
Scott3 anger Hunter L Lincoln,A., 28 animals.Seealso cats; dogs; pets 1" Bland-Sutton Goering2 Grey 2 Ustinov 1 anonymity Newton 10 anticlericalism Greeley3 antiques France2 Mizner, W., 13 . Seealso Jews anti-Semitism Belmont L Chwolson 1 Disraeli 1 Hobson,L. 2., I Kaufman11 Marx, G., 3 Montefiore L 'Sfise 1 tU7oollcott 5 apologies Barrie 1 1 Beaverbrook Blackwell 1 Chesterton9 Choate5 Churchill,R. F. E. S., 3 Hope 1 Lowe L R. B., LL Sheridan, Skelton, I., t Toscanini1 Voltaire 1 apothecaries Macready 1 appeals Philip II 1 appearance Aquinas L ad 2 Bankhe Braque 1 Broun 2 Campbell,Mrs. P., 6 Charlotte 1 Chesterton2 Crockett 2 Darrow 1. Eden,A., 1 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 9 Hardie 1 Hayakawa 2 Home,A. D., 1 H., 1 James, JohnXXIII 3,7 Kelly, G., 1 Lais 1 Lardner L Lincoln,A., 18, 31 Longworth 2 Morley, R., 2 Rigaud 1 Roosevelt, F. D., 3 Ross9 M., 3 Sargent, Shaw,G. B., 217 Twain 20 'West, R., l-2 William III 1 appendixes Virchow 3 applause DiMaggio 1 3 Sheen apples John XXIII 1 Arabic language NasserL archaeologists Christie,A., 1 A., 1 Evans, 1 Schliemann architects/architecture Franklin14 Mies van der Rohe 1 Mizner, A., 1 Mizner,'W.,10 Wren 1 \7right, F. L., l-2 arguments Bing 6 Brummell 3 Cohn 4 Geoffrin 1 Goldwyn 3, 19-20 4 Gosse Hammett 4 N., 2 Johnson, Lincoln,A., 12 Louis,J., 3 Lubitsch 1 Mazarin 1 Modigliani 1 M o l n d r3 , 9 PeterI 2 ScarronL Shor 2 Smith,S., 1 Stein5 Toscanini4 Trollope,A., L

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Victoria 7 Voltaire 3 tUfalpole, H., 1 aristocrats.Seealso royalty Angyo 1 2 Chesterfield Condorcet 1 Cooper,D., 3 Jones, J. P.r 2 Korda 2 Lincoln,A.r 29 1 Sackville-West L Somerset Tennyson5 Armenians Arlen 3 arrest A., 2 Jackson, Orsay 1 arrogance Alcibiades1 Ali 2-3 Galbraith 2 Howe, J. V., 1 2, 6 Joyce,James, 4 Julia 4 Khrushchev Landers1. Macmillan 3 Parker,D., 3 1 Somerset arson Nero 2 art Beaton1 Beckford2 Brown 2 Caroto L DuveenL Fry 1 GeorgeVl 2 Matisse1 4, 6, l3-I4 Picasso Stillman1 Turner 3 art collections Beckford2 Frick 1 art dealers Duveen1-3, 5 MorgaD,J. P., arthritis Renoir34 artificial limbs Bader 1 1 de Seversky artists,visual.Seealso sculptors Apelles1 Bellows1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

705
Henry II 1 Lincoln,R. T., 1 McKinley 2 Reagan2-3 T., 5 Roosevelt, Wellington 8 asthma 'SV'., Sr., 2 Holmes,O. Astrodome RainierL astrologers CardanoL Louis XI 1 astrology Newton 3 astronauts Armstrong,N., I-2 astronomers Galileo 1 Herschel1 Kepler 1 Messier1. astronomy Alfonso X 1 Einstein14 GeorgeIII 1 Newton 1, 3 Roosevelt, T., 3 Thales1 asylums Wolf 1 atheists Bufruel1 Tolstoy 1 athletes . Seealso sports,specific sports Ali 5 Hundley 1 Nurmi 1 Russell, Bill, 2 Ruth 1 Thorpe 1-3 Thronberry 1 atomicweapons Koestler 3 Leahy 1 Oppenheimer 2-3 Thomas, N., 2 Atomic EnergyCommission Oppenheimer 3
atonement

artists,visual (continued) 3 Blaker'W., Brancusi1 Caroto 2 Cassatt1" Clzanne 1, Churchill, \Uf.,4344 Constablel-2 Corot 2-3 Dali 4-5 Degas2 Fry 1-2 Fuseli2 1 Gainsborough Gilot 1 Giotto 1-3 Hocking 1 Hokusai 1 Homer L Kneller2 Koppay L Leighton 1 Liebermann 1 Marie Antoinette3 May L Medici 1 Michelangelo 3, 5 Modigliani 1 Morse 2 Northcote 1 Parrish1 Perugino1 Picasso I-19 Poussin 1 Raphael1 Renoir 14 Reynolds1 Robert,L., I Rossetti1 Sargent, J. S., 1 Sickert3 Tintoretto 1, Titian 2 Turner 1,-6 Uccello1 \Thistler4, ll-"1.2, 15-17 tU7ilde 7 \Ufilson, R., 1, Zeuxis 1
ascetics Gandhi, M. K., l-2 assassinations. See also execution; murder Alfonso XII 1 Caesar 8, 10 Clemenceau 1"0 de Gaulle 12 Francis Ferdinand 1 Garfield 1

Gardner, I. S.,3 attention Vidal 1 auctions Cherubini2 Degas2 audacity

rrild 1

audiences Acton L Addison 1 Albert, Prince,I George,L Alexander, Antheil 1 Auden 3 10 Benchley 1, 3, 8 Bernhardt Berra 1 Bing4, 10 Blumenthal1 Borge 2-3 Btilow 2 Calhern1 Churchill,\f., 32 Clay,H.r 6 Coolidge8 Cooper,Gladys,1 1 Courtneidge Cowl 1 Dumaspire 8 EdwardVII 9 Erskine, J., 2 Feydeau 4 Frederick William lV 2 GarrisonL GeorgeII 1 Goldwyn 17 Hitchcock 5 Horton L Kaufman8, 1,6 Klemperer3 Lamb, Charles, 5 Nilsson5 Parker,D., 1, ProkofievI Rachel5 Rubinstein, Arthur, 2 Schleiermacher L Schnabel 3 Siddons 5 Stokowski2 Taylor,L., 1 Twain 7 Voltaire 2 Wallach 1, Wilde 5 auditions Astaire1 Gatti-C I asazza Australia Kemble, J. P., 2 Austrians FrancisFerdinand1 authority Allen, E.r 2 1.2 Chesterton auto racing

707
DePalma1 Fangio1 Shaw,W., 1 Vukovich 1 autobiography Parker,D., 20 autographs. Seealso inscriptions 2 Beerbohm A., 5 Bennett, Copland 1 Hoover 4 Hugo 4 Kipling 2 Lincoln,A., 30 Merrill 2 Nash L Nijinsky 2 Nixon 7 PaigeL 10-11 Picasso ProkofievL Rachel2 5 Schweitzer Shaw,G. 8., 20 automation ReutherL automobiles Arno L Gulbenkian1 Mizner,'W.,L5 ReutherL Silvers1 aviators Corrigan L awards Bismarck3 France3 GarrisonL 1 Sheen awkwardness Nixon 5 babies Churchill,W., 3 L bachelors Chevalier2 Hart 1. O. W., Ir.r 2 HolmeS, Nivernais L bailiffs Dumaspire 5 L Steele baldness L Aeschylus Burns4 Mrs. P., 8 Campbell, Connelly 1 Marx, G., 5 M"ry, Queenof Scots,I Philip, Prince,L rg 1 Steinbe ballet. Seealso dancers Bernhardt13 de Valois 1 Diaghilev 2-3 Nijinsky 1 12 Stravinsky banality 5-7, 21 Coolidge bandages Simon,R. L., L bankers Eliot, T. S., L NapoleonI 13 PooleL bankruptcy Hyde-White 1 Joyce,John, 3 banks Marx, G., 13 Thurber 8 barbers ArchelausL Fernandel1 FrederickAugustusI L Macaulay 4 bargaining L Clemenceau baseball Aaron 1. G. C., 1" Alexander, Berra 1. Dean I-2 Durocher L Eliot, C.r 2 Gehrig L-2 Grimm L J., 1 Jacksotr, Jolley 1 Rizzuto L Robinson, J., L F. D., 6 Roosevelt, Ruth 1.,3, 5 Shor 2 L-2, 4-5 Stengel Thomson,Robert,L Thronberry L Waddell 1 basketball AuerbachL Baylor L 'U7. Chamberlain, 1, Hundley 2 Kurland 1 Luisetti l-z bathrooms Caen L

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Maeterlinck1 NapoleonI 4 I Onassis Smith,F. 8., 7 tUfilder3 I(illiams 4 baths Hoffmann L battles Beatty 1. Caesar 3 Forgy L Jones, J. P., 1' McAuliffe 1 NapoleonI L1 Nelson 3-4 Perry L P6tain1 Stark 1 \Tellington 7 \U7heeler 1 beards AlexanderIII 8 Keppel 1 Piccard1 Shaw,G. B., 13 bears Nixon 8 BeatGeneration KerouacL beauty Charlotte L Dumas fils a Fuller,R. 8., 1. Henry VIII 2 Hyde, C., I Koppay 1 Lenya L Moore, G. A.r 4 Sharif1 3 Simenon Talleyrand5 manner bedside Temple 1 begging Altenberg1 Jerrold 4 beliefs Bertrand,5 Russell, bequests Benny5 Cooper,V., 1 Graves1 Nelson 5 bereavement. Seealso grief Coward 13 de Gaulle 5 Galois 1 MessierL

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

708
birth control Darrow 4 birthdays Adams,F. P., 3 Bismarck9 Lamb, Caroline,1, Stevenson, R. L., I Twain 15 birthpiaces Whistler3 blackmail Adams, J. Q., I Armstrong,L., I Brough am 2 Hogarth 1 Scripps1 Teng 1 \Ufilson, Harriette, I blacks.Seealso racisrn E., 1 Roosevelt, Robinson, J., 1 blessings Snead L blindness Huxley,A., 3 Keller 1 North 4 g l-2 Shearin Thurber 9 Blitz, the (World War II) Elizabeth the QueenMother 3-4 bluestockings Vesey1 bluffing Porson2 blunders de Seversky 1 Esposito1 Gesvres 1 Gielgud1 HeggenI Kipling 1 Lowell,R., 1 Metaxas1 Morgatr,J. P., Sr.,5 NapoleonI 5 Nixon 5 Norden L O'Toole 2 Previn1, 3 S i t w e l lG , .,2 Spooner 5 Talleyrand 8 Trench2 boasting Acheson 3 Ali 1-3 Archimedes 2 Aumale2 GerardL GrazianoL 2 Greeley A., 3 Jackson, Jarry 3 Kennedy, J. F., 16 McCullers1 I Mascagni Reed1 Taylor,1., I Twain 19 \Tilhelmina1 bombing Lunt 3 books Abercrombie 1 Carroll,J., I L3 Chesterton 14 Coolidge Cooper , Gary,2 Dicken s 2-3, 5 Dryden2 Duveen5 Hardy 1 Hazlitt 1 Menelik2 Omar 1 Routh 3 Shaw, G. B.r2l Thoreau2 Twain 10 borders 3 Jusserand PhilipV 1 boredom 'W. Austin, R., 2 Beerbohm 4 Cowar d 14 Darwin 2 Dumaspire 8 Edison, T., 8 EdwardVII 9 Frederick William lV 2 2 Gosse Guitry 1 Huxley, J., 2 1 La Fontaine 1 Queensberry 1" Richardson 1 Sandburg ShawG , . B.,10,18 bores Adams, F. P., 5 Anders en 2 Bernard 3 7 Bismarck 2 Browning Burke2

bets Brodie,S., I Cohn 2 Coolidge2, 1,3 GatesL Goldwyn 3 Guitry 2 HeideggerL S., 15 Johnson, Landers2 Marquis 2 Mozart 4 2 Schopenhauer Stout3 Unitas L Bible,the Byron 4 Cohn 2 Grant,U. S., 10 Menelik 2 Paine2 Racine1 \filde 1 bidets tUTilder 3 Big Ben Hall 1 bigamy Russell , J., 3 billiards Louis XIV 7 Spencer 1 bills Burns2 EdwardVIII 3 Houdini 1 Kennedy, I. P., 4 Lister 1 Steinm etz 2 biography Balanchine 1 Carlyle 2 Coolidge 20 Goethe5 Lee,R. E., 5 Parker, D., 20 Steinbeck 5 \Ufilson, Harriette, I birds Albert, Prince,3 Augustus3 Barrymore, M.r z Huxley,J., 2 Ker 1 Lillie 4 Norden 1. Victoria 17 birth announcements Dirichlet 1

709
Mrs. P., 3 Campbell, Canning2 CharlesII 3 Churchill,R. H. S., L Connelly4 Connolly 1 Herford 5 Jerrold 3 Selwyn4 Shaw,G. B., ll Smith,S., 9 Thomas,D., L Travers L Twain 13 Van Doren L rUilhistler 9 til(rilde4 borrowing. Seealsodebts; loans Hazlitt 1 Boston,Massachusetts Emerson7 I. S., 1-2 Gardner, boxers Ali 4 Dempseyl-4 L Fitzsimmons Graziano t-2 Louis,J., 1, 3-5 McCoy l-2 Mizner, W., 619 Rosenbloom1 Sullivan, I. L., I brandy Talleyrand13 Trollope,A.r 4 breakingwind ElizabethI 1 . Seealso d6colletage breasts Aubernon2 Churchill,W., 28 Dumas fils 2 LenclosL Louis XV 5 Mature 2 Parker,D., LL brevity. Seealso taciturnity Coolidge1, t9 3 Eisenhower Getty 1 Henri IV 6 Perry 1. Swift 4 bribery Dryden 3 J., 1 Jacksoo, bridges 2 Richelieu British,the Coote 1. Gabin t Broadway Chesterton14 Brocken specter GosseL brothers CharleslI 6 Holmes,J., 1 Jacobi1 Buddhism Asoka 1 Buddha1 bullfights Coward 14 bullies Swinburne1 bureau cracy Nelson 2 . Seealso funerals burials Darius I 2 Donovan 1. Dumaspire 5 Jonsonlr 2 Juang-zuI Molitsre L Nelson 7 Rossetti2 buses Plomer L mentality business Ford, H., 1 methods business H., 1 Alexander, 3-4 Carnegie Ford,H., 1, 6 Goldwyn 2, l0 Ross 4-5 ThalbergL-2 calamity Disraeli7 Napoleon,E., 3 callousness Evans,A., 1 2 Gauss 5 Labouchere Louis XV 5 McCormick 1 Marie Antoinette 1. Mayer 2 Morel 1 Nabokov L NapoleonI 11 Richelieu3 Rossini9 Routh 1 Bertrandr2 Russell, Vanderbilt,C., 3

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

\U7ilson, UI., 2 tilTylie1 calmness Carver L Casals 2 Green, J. H., 1 HolmeS, F. D., 3 Lunt 3 Montgomery,B. L., 4 Sheridan, R. 8., 15 Wellington 7-8 camouflage Picasso 4 cancer Dooley 1 candidates. Seeelections; politicians ; presidents cannibalism Smith,S., 8 cards/cardgames Adams.F. P., 1, D., 1 Campbell, Cole 1 Culbertson 1. Eliot, T. S., 5 Elliston 2 Foote 7 Gershwin,I., L Hull 1 Kaufman3, t4 Locke 1 Louis XV 5 MiznerrW., 2 Parr 3 Seealso employcareers. ment Beaton L Browne 1 GeorgeV 1 Kennedy, J. F., 3 Pope,Alexander,3 Root 1 Smith,S., 13 caricatures tUfellington13 cartoonists Nast 1 Ross13 castration Grassini1 Catholics Adler 1 Andrew 1 Fields5 cats Evans,E.r 2 Newton 5 Parker,D., 19 Twain 8

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

71 , 0
Owen 1 child prodigies Auber 1 Einstein1 GaussL Huxley, A., 1 I3 James Johnsor,S., 1 Knox, R., I Koestler1. Macaulay1 Mozart 1.,3 1 Pascal Rosenthal 3 child rearing ge 4 Colerid Picabia1 children.Seealso child prodigies;parents Andersen 3 Aubernon3 Barrie 3, 5,9 Basie1 Benny4 Betty 1 Caesar 10 Cantor 1 Carter 4 Chanel1 Clemenceau 5 Cornelia1 Courtneidge1 Coward1, 10, 13 CyrusII 1 de Gaulle5 Dewey, J., I Diana 1 Diogenes 5 Duse2 Einstein l, 19-20 Elizabeth II 5 Engels1 Feydeau 1 Field,M., 1 Fitzgerald, E., 1 Fry 2 GeorgeV 5 Gibbon 1 Giotto 3 Goethe4 Grable1 Grant, C., I Graves1 Gunther3 Hayes, H., I Huxley,J., I S., 6 Johnson, Julia 1 Kennedy, J. F., 1,6-17 Koestler1 Lamb, Charles , l, 4 Laughton3 Lillie 5 Lincoln,A., 8 Macaulay1 Macmillan 2 Marx, G., 11, Monteux 3 Mountbatten L Olivier 1 OscarII L Picasso 1.9 Raleigh5 1 Schonberg 2 Schumann-Heink Scott4 L Seuss SolomonL A. E.r 7 Stevenson, Themistocles 2 Truman 2 Wellington 12-13 tVhistler13 gallantry chivalry.See choreographers. Seealso ballet; dancers Diaghilev2-3 ChristianScience Eddy 1 Christianity.Seereligion churches Edison, T., 5 Voltaire 12 CIA Castro2 cigars Coolidge17 Freud2 Haeseler 1 Humes L Knopf 1 Laird 1 Marshall,T. R., I Marx, G., LL Stengel 1 Twain 17 circumcision Cantor 2 circuses Barnum2 Stravinsky 12 citizenship Einstein7 Legros 1. civil disobedience Thoreau4 civilization Gandhi,M., 5

cautlon LL Clemenceau Hoover 3 celebrations Cunard 1 celebrities Claire 1 DiMaggio 1 Telford L Twain 11 . Seefame celebrity celibacy E. C., 1 Stanton, censorship PompadourL Stubbs1 challenges F. F., 1 Cleveland, Mallory 1 champagne \(rilde 17 championships Louis,J., I change Lloyd George3 chariry Abernerhy4 Aidan 1 Bankhe ad 7 Beechaffi, T., 1 Benny2 Bernard10 Bright 1 Carlyle5 Carnegie 1 Fontenelle 2 Ford, H., 5 La Guardia 1 O'Hara 1. charlatans. Seefrauds charm Disraeli15 Kennedy, I. F., L3 chastiry Augustine1 cheating Culbertson1 Foote 7 Gates1 McCoy 2 Mizner,W., 11. chefs.Seecooks/chefs chess Begin1 Borromeo1 chickens Borge4 Coolidge9 child labor

7tr
Garrod 1 Park L classics, study of Gaisford 1 cleanliness Edison, T.r 7 Elliston 2 Fleming,A., I 'S7est, R., 2 clergy AmbroseL Andrew 1 Augustine 1 rdt 6-7 Bernha 2 Bossuet Browne L 1 Chesterfield Churchill,W., L5 Evans,E., 1 GeorgeIII 1 L George-Brown Grant,U. S., 14 Greeley3 Gregory I 1 Henry II 1 Hill, R.,2 Holmes,O. W., Sr., 1. Hume 2 JamesI 2 John XXIII 5-6 S., L8 Johnson, Lang 1 Luther 3 Marx, G.r 2 Morgao,J. P., Sr., 3 Mugnier 2, 5 Paley1 Phillips2 PoggioBracciolini 1 Sandwich1 L Schleiermacher Smith,S.,4, 8, L0 Swift 3 Temple 1. Thurlow 2-3 Trench 1 Voltaire 15 \U7esley 2 tU7ilkes 1 clocks Tree 2 clothing. Seealso costumes; fashion Acheson3 S., 1 Alexander, Astor, N., 4 Beecham, Sir T., 2 Bernard7 Mrs. P., 5 Campbell, Chanel4 Churchill, \f., 48 Coward 34 Darrow L Depew2 Eden,A., I Faisal1 Fuller, Margaret, 2 Gielgud2 Grote L GuinesL Harrison,G., 1. Julia 2 Montagu 1 Poe 1 Rhodes1 Ross9 Smyth 1 Taft, L., I TennysonL, 4-s Twain 18 clubs Adams,F. P., L Foote 5 Marx, G.r 3-4 Mature 1. clumsiness Jolley 1 Macaulay 4 Whistler 15 coaches Luisetti 1 coal miners Owen L cobblers Apelles1 Cockneyaccent Choate5 codes,secret Thomson,G., L coincidence Adams, J., 2 Churchill,\7., 1.2 Coleridge5 Divine 1 FerdinandIV 1 Hyder'W.,1. T., L0 Jefferson, Lincoln, R. T., 1 ck 2 Steinbe Thurber 4 Twain 23 Varah L coins Cromwell 5 collaboration Gilbert,W. S., 3 Porson5 Rodgers1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

collections Guitry, S., 2 colonials Elizabeththe Queen Mother 5 color blindness Dalton L colors Turner 2-3, 5 Seealso humorists comedians. Abbott 1 Abernethy5 Benny3 Burns 1. Carson2 Chaplin 1 Durante L Frisco L'W., 1 Rogers, Ustinov 2 tU7hitelaw 1 Seealso humor comedy. Chaplin3 Gwenn 1 comets Mazarin 2 Twain 23 comfort Hepburn2 'S(/'., Holmes,O. Jr.r4 Maria Theresa1. Suvorov1 communication Ruskin3 communism (Belgium)L Elisabeth Galbraith 1 Hutchins 4 Noyes 1 Steffens1 Communists 6 Clemenceau compassion Abernethy4 Aidan 1 Bader 1 Mencken4 NapoleonI 10 Philip,J. W., I compensation Gluck 1 Nelson 2 competitiveness Butler,R. A., 1. complaints Heifetz 4 compliments Abernethy6 Brahms8

INDEX OF SUBIECTS

712
Satie1 L Strauss Stravinsky 2, 5-5, 8, 10, t2 Verdi 1,-2 Walton 1 compromise Alvanley2 Russell, Bill, 1 comradeship Washington4 conceit . Seealso selfimportance Adams,F. P., 3 Alcibiades 1 L Antisthenes Asquith,M., 3 Astor, N., 4 Atlas 1 Bakst 1 Callas2 2 Carnegie I 1 Charles 2 Chateaubriand Churchill,W., 5 Clurman L Coolidge 25 Disraeli13 DreiserL Dulles1 Gabor 4 Gershwin, G., \, 5 Greville 1 GuinesL Gulbenkian 2 Isabey1 H., I James, Jarry 1 S., L5 Johnson, 2 Joyce, James, Kaufm an 19 Kittredge 1 Kneller 1 Lunt 1 Marx, G.r 6 Mazarin 1 Mugnier 4 Noailles1 Pachmann 1 Pompadour 2 R. 8., 16 Sheridan, 2 Spurgeon Stein4 Tree 8 Whistler 8-12, 14-1.5 Vilde 10-11 \Tilding 1 concentration Lloyd, C. E., L Seealso audiences; concerts. conductors; composers; rehearsals musicians; Albert, Prince,I Antheil L GeorgeVI 1 Grant,U. S., 11 Heath 1 Levant2, 5, 7 1-3 Pachmann Parker,H. T., 1. Rodzinski1 Arthur, 2 Rubinstein, Shaw,G. 8., L0 Stokowski1 2 Stravinsky tU7ellington 8 Vieniawski 1 condescension 1 Alcibiades L Angoulme I Tecumseh Seealso composconductors. rehearsals; ers;musicians; singers Barbirolli 2 Beecham, Sir T., 3-4, 5-7, 10-14, 16 Boult 1 Busch1 Casals1 Furrwdngler1 Hess1 Hindemith 1, Klemperer l-2 Koussevitsky 2 Levant3 Lully 1 Massenet L Mehta 1 Monteux l-Z Previn2 Richter l-z Rodzinski1 Rossini7 1 Saint-Sadns M., 2 Sargent, Stokowski2 1-3, 5-10 Toscanini \U7alter 1 ConeyIsland Gorki I confessions PeterI L TeresaI confidence Einstein 2 L Fitzsimmons Goldwyn7 Louis,J., 5

compliments(continued) Braithw aite 2 Bull 1 Chase, S. P., 1 Choate 1 Churchill,W., 12 Denis2 Dumaspire I Durante5 Fiske1 FranklinL, 11 Gielgud1 1 Guinness Haydn 4 Heifetz 2 Hofmann I HolmeS, J., 3 T., 3 Jefferson, Kennedy, J. F., 15 Lincoln,A., 2l Nijinsky 2 O'Hara 2 Pater L Rossini2-3, 6 2 Siddons Speaight 1 Thorpe 1 Thurber 5 Victoria 4 r$filde15 \U7oollc ott 7 composers. Seealso conductors; musicians; singers Auber 1 Antheil 1. Beethoven 2-3 Borodin 1 Brahms 11 Brilow 3 Cherubini 1,3 Cowell 1 Duke 1 Gershwin, G., 5, 7 Gilbert,\U(/. S., l, 5-6 Hammerstein 2 Handel2, 4 Haydn 1 Jullien2 Kelly,M., 1 Liszt 1 Mahler 1 Meyerbeer 1-3 Mozart 3 OffenbachL PayneL Rodgers2 Rossini l-2, 4,9 Ruggles1 1 Saint-Sadns

713
Rutherford 1 Turner 5 congratulations Alma-Tadema L Cantor 2 Congress Cleveland, G., L conquest Napier L Patton 2 conscience Talleyrand 7 Thoreau7 objectors conscientious 2 Strachey consolation Barbirolli 1 de Gaulle5 conspiracy AlexanderI L Fawkes1 constituents Clay, H.r 7 constitutions Talleyrand 4 contests Dryden 3 Einstein18 Greene1. contracts 2 Sheen conversation Abernethy5 Aubernon L 4 Berners Browni.g, R., 2 Euler L FrancisJoseph1 Heine 1 HerschelL 'S(/'., Holmes,O. Jr., 8 Jarry | Lewis,C. S., 1 Locke L Macaulay3 Maintenon 2 Marx, H., 1 NapoleonI 8 Necker L F. D.r 7 Roosevelt, 2 Schopenhauer Smith,F. E., L Whistler 14 2 Wodehouse cooking Alfred 1 du Barry I Hitchcock 5 cooks/chefs Hayes,H., 3 Hayworth 1 Homer'W.D., L Landor L Moore, G. H.r 2 Riley 1 Vatel 1 copyright Burke 1 corpses Rogers, S., 3 corruption. Seealso graft Clive 2 Nast L cosmetics Rigaud 1 costumes Astaire3 Coward 3 Mature 3 coughing Curran 4 courage Arria 1 Bruno L Byng L ChristianX L Churchill,W., L4 ceau7 Clemen Cranmer 1. Foch 2 FrederickII 5 Galois L Gunther 3 Jacksor,T. J., 3 J. P., 1 Jones, Kennedyr l. F., 1 MacArthur, D., 1 Moore, T., 3 Pyle 1 Roland 1 Seealso manners courtesy. Harriman 2 Hay 1 T., 8 Jefferson, Lincoln,A., 35 Twain L3 courtship Sir T., 1 Beecham, Burton, Sir R., 1 Gibbon 2 Grant, [.J.S., L T., 2 Jefferson, Lenya L Lewes2 Lewis,S., L-2 Raleigh2 Victoria 5 D., 5 Webster,

rNDEX

OF SUBJECTS

cowardice Clemenceau 4 Foch 2 T., J., 3 Jackson, cowboys Roosevelt, T., 1. Creation,the Alfonso X 1 Beecher 4 Knox, R., 4 creativity,nature of Balzac 6 Dali 5 Ford, H., 3 creditors Liliencron2 Lincoln,A., 4 tU7oollcott 2 credits Jullien2 LedererL Tracy 2 cricket L. N., L Constantine, GraceI-4 Hobbs L Johnstor,B., I-2 Larwood L crime.Seealso specificcrimes Hylan L Nixon 9 Solon2 criminals.Seealso murderers; thieves Chekhov2 CondorcetL A.r 2 Jackson, Kernble, J. P., 2 rurild 1 art criticism/critics, Apelles2 Beckford2 Davy 3 E.r 4 Evans, Fry 1 Fuseli2 Kneller 2 Leighton 1 RaphaelL Rossetti3 Ruskin 2 Sargent, J. S., 2-3 Taylor L rUThistle r 16 drama criticism/critics, Alexander, G. C., 1 Archer 1. Bankhead 3, 11 Behan3

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

71,4
Rosenthal 1 Rossini 9 Saint-Sadns1. Satie 2 S h a w ,G . 8 . , 3 , 1 0 Stravinsky 11 Truman 2 Wellington 9 criticism, political Acheson 2 critics B r o o k s ,M . , 2 cross-dressing Sharp 1 crossword puzzles Knox, R., 5 crowds Barnum 1 Berra 2 cures Charles lI 2 Cuvier 2 Galen 1 Gershwin, G.r 2 'Sf., HolmeS, O. Sr.r 2 Menelik II 2 Pembroke 1 'Vfaterton 1 Yeats 2 curfews Belinsky 1 Maxwell 1 curses Ferdinand IV 1 cursing. See swearing customs officials Slezak 2 rU7ilde2 cynicism Allen, F., I dancers . Seealso ballet; choreographers Arnould 1 Astaire 1, 3 Coward 3 Fonteyn l-2 Karsavina I Tamaris I Taylor, P., 1 dancing Belinsky 1 Sandwich 2 Darwinism Disraeli 11 Huxley, T., 1, daydreams Eliot, T. S., 7 D-Dav Taylor, M., 1 deadlines Parker, D., I deafness Bell, A. G., 2 Chateaubriand 2 Churchill, nf., 49 Harris, 1., 2 'Sf., Sr., 6 Holmes, O. McCoy 2 Napoleon I 8 Victori a 13 death. Seealso deathbeds; dying; last words A d a m s ,J . , 2 Addison 4 Aeschylus 1 Anaxagoras L Auber 4 Bennett, A.r 2 Caesar 8 Chatterton 1 Cohan 4 Coolidge 27 Disraeli75 Donne 2 Duncan 1 Empedocles I Evans, A., 1, Ferdinand IV 1 Fontenelle 5 Frohman 1 Gilbert, W. S., 1 Goethe 4 Green, J. H., 1, Greene 2 Gwenn I James,H., 3 Labouchere 6 LiBol Lincoln,A., 37 Louis XIV 10 McCormick 1 Mayer 3 Mencken 3 Montmorency 1. P a r k e r ,D . , 2 1 Philip III 1 Rizzuto 1 Russell, Bertrand, 5 Saroyan 1. Schwarzenberg3 Selwyn 1 Sobhuza II 1 Stevens3 Sumner 1" Thales 5 Thomas, D., 2-3 Twain 14

criticism, drama (continued) Bernhardt 1,2 Blumenthal 1 Broun 1. Coward 7 Field, 8., 1 Fonda 2 'W. S., 9 Gilbert, 2 Gosse Molndr "l'2 Sandburg 1 Shaw, G. B., 4 Victoria 2 tilTilde 5 Zangwill 1 criticism/critics, literary Arnold 3 Bahr 1. Boileau 2 Bridger 2 Brownitrg, R., 1, Eliot, T. S., 2, 4 Emerson 5 Frost 3 'V(/'. S., 2 Gilbert, Goldwyn 5 Herford 5 Holmes, O. W., Jt., 3 Jerrold 1 Johnson, S., 20 Maugham L Mommsen L Pope, Alexander, I Porson 4 Rivarol 1-2 'V7., 1' Russell, G. Tennyson 3 Voltaire 5, 7 Wilde 9 Woollcott 5 criticism/critics, movie Hepburn I Mankiewtcz I Marx, G., 9 Mature l-2 Thurber 7 criticism/critics, music Btilow 4 Cherubini 1, 3 Enesco 1 Fitzgerald, 8., 1. Heath 1 Klemperer 3 Liberace L Martinelli 2 Meyerbeer 1. Monteux 2 Rachmaninoff 1 Reger 2

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rU7ilde 17 tUfilkes5 death announcements NapoleonI 14 deathbeds. Seealso death; dying; last words Butler,S., 5 Carolineof Ansbach2 debates Huxley, T. H., I Nixon 3 debts.Seealso bills; creditors; loans Addison 3 Augustus5 BeanL Bing 8 Briand 1 Coolidge18 Fox, C. J., 1 GleasonL Halbe 1 Hayworth 2 Herford L J., 1 James, Liliencron2 Marx, C., 3 Orsay 1 1 Rabelais Scott 5 Sheridar,R. B., 5-8 1 Steele deception Columbus1 1 Crockford 'W., 2 Eliot, C. Shi Huangdi 1 Declarationof Independence Franklin 2-3 Hancock 1 Harrisor, B. ("Signer"),1 Seealso breasts d6colletage. Arnould 3 Charles,Prince,L Depew 2 Doherty 1 John XXIII 1 decorating Edward VII 8 dedications Armstrong,L.r 2 F. S., 2 Fitzgerald, Mascagni2 Scarron1 defeat Baugh 1 Buller 1 FrancisII 1 NapoleonI 12 Pitt 3 Stevenson, 'S(/. A. E., 4 Taft, H., 2 tU7ellington 10 defensiveness O'Hara 2 delicacy Connelly2 Palmerston 2 Ross1, 10 delusion of grandeur Churchill,W., 24 delusions GeorgelV 7-2 democracy Franklin 13 Jeffersor,T., 5, 7 Lycurgus L demonstrations Reagan1 desertion FrederickII 5 NapoleonI 12 detectives Hammett t-z Seealso determination. singlemindedness 3 Archimedes Arne L Avery 1. Flaherty 1 Perot L P6tain1 Robert I 1 Truth 1 Seealso cures; diagnoses. doctors Abernethy3, 5 Bell, J.,2 Brahms9 e, 4., 2 Christi Fordyce 1 Green, J. H., 1 Hartleben1 MacMahon 1 Morse 2 4 Pope,Alexander, diamonds Baker, J., I Greville 1 Taylor, E., 1 diaries Goldwyn 14 Kaufman 20 dictators Stalin1 dictionaries Twain 15 dieting

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Roosevelt, F. D., 3 dining habits Crockett 1 dinners Barrie 8 Byron 2 Clive 1 Coolidge22 Foster 1 Hitchcock 1 Necker 1 Orsay 2 Paderewski 4 Petronius1 Pliny 1 Porson5 Rossini5 1 Sarasate Susann 3 TraversL Trench 1 Trollope,A.r 2 diplomats/diplomacy Adee 1 Austin,'W.R., l-2 Bismarck4 Bryan'1. Carol II 1 CastroI-2 Churchill,W., 33 de Gaulle 8 ElizabethII 5 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 5 Elliot 1 Fletcher1 Franklin 10 Franks 1 Garner 1. 1 George-Brown Harriman 2 Humes L Keppel 1 Labouchere 2 Laird 1 Lincoln,A., t6 Roosevelt, F. D., 6-7 L Schwarzenberg Thorndike 3 directors.Seemovie directors and producers dirtiness \U7ebster, D., 3 tU7histler 13 disablement Nelson l-2 disappointment Cocteau2 Lincoln,A., 10

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

716
Lister 1 Mayo 1 Milliken 1 Morse 2 Napoleon, E., 2 Otto 1 Schick 1 Sills 1 Tennyson 8 Trudeau, E. L., 1, Virchow 3 dogs Campbell, Mrs. P., 4 Churchill, If., 42 Coward 10 Green, H.r 2 Nash I Newton 2 Nixon 1 Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra 1" donations Greeley 7 Hutchins 2, 5 Morgan 8 Untermeyer 1 double entendre Grenfell 1 double standards Nixon 9 dowries Scarron 2 dramatists. See playwrights drawing Fry 2 O'Toole 1 dreams Archer 1 Coleridge 2 Constantine L Howe, E., I Johnson, W., 1 Kekule von Stradon itz I Lincoln,A., 3I,37 Russell, Bertrand, 3 dress Clemenceau g Marx, G., 5 Poe L drinking. Seealso drunkenness; liquor Bankhead 2 Barrymore, J., 1 Benchley 7 Corbet 1 Fields 3-4 Frederick Augustus I 1 George IV 1 George VI 3

disciples Diogenes 5 Eddy 1 n, T ., 9 Jefferso Seealso inventions; discoveries. scientists Archimedes 1 Cuvier 2 Fermi 2 Fleming, A., t Galvani 1 'W., Sr., 4 Holmes, O. Kekul6 von Stradonitz I Newton 1, 4,9 Salk 1 discretion Baldwin 2 Lawrence, T. E.r 2 Morgan, J. P., Jr., 2 Seward 2 Shaftesbury 1 diseases. Seeillness; specific illnesses disguises Alfred 1 Edward VIII 1 'Wheatcroft 1 dismissals Greeley 5 disrespectfulness Cyrus II 1 divorce Eleanor of Aquitaine 1 Luce, C. 8., 1 Thorndike 2 doctors. Seealso cures, diagnoses Abernethy 1, 3-6 Adenauer 3 Alexander III 5 Asquith, M., 4 Bankhead 6 Bell, J., I-2 Benchley 4 Bland-sutton L Brahms 9 Farquhar I Fordyce 1 Frederick II 1 1 Galen 1 Garth 1 Gibbon 2 Gordon, R., I Grace 4 Grant, U. S., 14 Green, J. H., I Hartleben 1, Hepburn I Holmes,O.'W., Sr., 1

Grant,U. S.,5, L4 Hemingway8 Johnson,5.,24 1 Langrishe r 1-2 Lardne Lincoln,A., 1,I Magruder 1 Marquis 1 1 Marshall, -1., D., 2'1, Parker, Porson3 R. B., 1,7 Sheridan, 4 Stravinsky Tennys on 2 rUfhistler 7 drivers AlvanleyL-2 Huxley, T. H.,2 driving Dayan 1. drought Eshkol 1 drowning Korda 3 Shelley , P. 8., 2 Sickert2 drug addiction Bankhe ad 1 drunkenness. Seealso drinking; liquor Addison2 Alexander, G. C., L Alrna-Tadema 1 Benchley 5 BoothI ,.8., 4 Chamberlain, A.,2 Churchill, W., 38 Cooper,W., 1, Dionysius II 1 Fergusson 1 Fields2 Fordyce1 Fosdick1 George-Brown 1 MacArthur, C., 1 Mankiewicz 2 Pembroke 1 Philip II 1 A. S., 1, Sullivan, Thomas,D., I Verlaine1 \Talpol,R., 1 Ylard 2 duels Abercrombie 1 Alvanley1 I Beaumarchais Clay, C. M., 1 Clemenceau 34

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Courteline1 Dumaspdre 6 Fox, C. J.r 2 Howarth L A., I, 6 Jacksoo, Mirabeau L Putnam 1 1 Sainte-Beuve Scholl2 1 Shelburne Virchow 1 duty Victoria L rU7illiam Il 2 dying. Seealso death; deathbeds;last words Allen, E.r 4 Cannon t Croll 1 Cuvier2 Franco L Franklin 15 II 11 Frederick Frederick\(rilliam | 2-3 2 Gainsborough Galois 1 Goethe3 Guitry, S., 3 Keats2 4 Palmerston 4 Pope,Alexander, 2 Rabelais Rachmantnoff 2 eafthquakes Barrymore, J., I CarusoL Hideyoshi1 eavesdropping Baruch 1" L Beaumont city/eccentrics eccentri 5 Bankhead Banks1 Beckford1 Sir T., 2 Beecham, Bennett, J. G., 5 Booth,J. 8., 3 Buckland1 Byron 2 '1-,-3, 6 Dali Dudley 1 Horowitz 2 Mytton 1 Nerval I RossettiL 1 Schopenhauer 1 Selwyn 'Waterton 1 Wilde 12 eclipses Columbus3 L Pericles ThalesL economists Keynes2 Truman 4 economizing Churchill,R. F. E. S., 4 Tree 7 economy Eshkol 1" KennedyrJ.F.rTr9 editing/editors Allen, F., 4 '$(/., 30 Churchill, Dickens4 Dodge L Eliot, T. S., 8 Franklin 2 Glyn L Goethe5 3,7 Hemingway S., 7 Johnson, O'Neill 1 Ross7, Ll, t3 education Cohen 1 Eliot, C., 1 Franklin 7 Fuller,M.'W., 1. HensonL Hutchins 4 Plato 1 Rachel3 efficiency H., 1 Alexander, Ford, H., 6 egalitarianism 8 Emerson Pliny 1 TennysonL ego.Seeconceit;selfimportance Eiffel Tower Morris, V., 1 elections Addams1 Abernethy2 Baldwin 3 Baylor 1 Belloc1 Buckley1 Churchill,W., 23 Copp6e1 Dewey,F., 1 Fox, C. J., 5-5 Fuseli1

rNDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Gallup 1 I Harrisoo,B. (President), Kennedy, J. F., 2, 5-6 Landers2 Lincoln, A., 9-1,0 Long 1 MenziesL 3 Sherman A. E., 4-5 Stevenson, Taft,'W. H., 2 N., lr 3-4 Thomas, Van Buren 1 \filkes, J., I elephants Barnum2 embarrassment Channing1 Coolidgell | 2 Elizabeth 2 Eugdnie L Onassis Twain 11 embezzlement S., 7 Johnson, emblems Edward I 1 Edward III 1 emergencies Capa 1 Skelton,R., 1 emigration Rhodes2 employees 5 Clemenceau 2 Eug6nie Goldwyn 16 Greeley5 Northcliffe 1 T., L Roosevelt, employers Augustus4 Cobb 1 Gould 1 Seealso careers employment. AchesonL 1 Agassiz Arlen 1 2 Ellenborough er "1"-2 Faulkn Ford,H., 3 Philip, Prince,2-3 Twain 1 endorsements Kennedy, J. F., 5 W., 3 Rogers, enemies Bevin3 Carolineof Brunswick4 Castracani1

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71,8
esprit de corps Palmerston 2 esteem Paderewski 5 etiquette.Seemanners Eton Poole 1 eunuchs Behan3 euphemism Ashe 1 Churchill,W., 28 ElizabethII 5 Ross1 Evanston,Illinois Willard 1 Eve John XXIII 1 Smith,S., 9 evolution Huxley, T., 1, Mizner, W., 8 exaggeration Cagliostro1 Lincoln,A., 22 examinations V., 2 James, Oppenheimer L Phelps1 Whistler 2 tU7ilde 1 exclusivity Smith,F. 8., 7 excuses BarhamL Barrymore, J., 6 Dahn 1 Edward VII 1 Gielgud4 La Fontaine1 Louis XV 1 Marx, C., 1, Richardson1 Sheridan, R. B.r 2 executi on. Seealso assassination; murder Bailly 1 Blackwell1 Boleyn 1 Bradford 1 'S(/'., Brodie, 1, Bruno 1 Byng 1 Cavell1 Corday 1 Cromwell 4 Danton 1 Digby 1 FavrasL FrederickII 1 I 1 FredericktU7illiam Harrison,B. ("Signer"),1 Henry VIII 1 John,A., 1 Latimer lLauzun L Louis XVI 3 Marie Antoinette4 M"ry, Queenof Scots,I Milton 2 More, T., 3 Muraviev L NapoleonI 5 NicholasI L Quin 1 Raleigh7-8 Roland 1 Schwarzenberg 2 Selwyn2 Servetus 1 exercise l-2 Jusserand exhaustion Spaak1 exhibitionism Kaufman 9 exile Charles X 2 existentialisrn S7ilder5 expediency Chwolson1
expense accounts Fowler 2 experience Johnson,5., 22 \X/ellington 4 experiments Avery 1 Bacon 5 Bell, J., I Edison, T., 3 Hevesy 1 Ruskin 1 experts Rowland 1 explorers Charles V 2 Columbus 1-2 David 1 Eric the Red 1 Hillary 1 Lloyd George 5 Mallory 1 Oates I Park I Peary 1 Smith, S., 3

(continued) enemies Clay, H.r 2 FrederickII, 7, 9 Goldwyn 20 Hume 5 L. 8., 4 Johnsoh, J. P., 2 Jones, KhrushchevL Lamb, Charles, 5 Lincoln,A., 33 Lonsdale1 Louis XIV 3 Lowell, Amy, 2 NapoleonI 9-10 Narv6ez1 Perry 1 engagements Gabor 5 engineering Archimedes 2 Steinm etz 2 Englishlanguage Nasser1 Richter 3 English,the Beecher 3 S.,2 Johnson, Palmerston 3 Schopenhauer 2 Voltaire 4 entertainment Petronius1 entrepreneurs Bernhardt 11 Thales2 Thoreau5 envy.Seeiealousy epitaphs Benchley 3 Boulanger, G., 1, Carson2 S.,23 Johnson, Jonson2 Kaufman 23 Keats3 Lamb, Charles,1 Mencken4 Parker, D., 15 Parr 1. Riley 1 Sargent, J. S., 2 equaiiry Angoulme1 Bernard8 Diogenes 5 escapes Cetewayo1 Gogarty 2 Houdini 2

719
Stanley1 Thomsoo,J., 1, Wilde 3 extortion Themistocles L life extraterrestrial Knox, R., 4 Szilard1 extravagance Beecham, Sir T., 2 Bennett, J. G., 3-5 Churchill,R. F. E. S., 4 eyeglasses DavenantL Ibsen2 Lenya L eyesight Dayan L Peck 1 Robinson, E. A., 1 L Schonberg Thomson,Robert, L familiarity 'Sf., Churchill, 18 families Edison,C., 1 L6vis L Thales4 famine Lafayette 1 fans. Seeadmirers fantasies D'Annunzio 2 FraguierL Thorndike 1 farewells RepplierL RossL2 Thurlow 4 \U7ylie 1 farming Borge4 designers fashion/fashion Asquith,M., 3 BalmainL Brummell 7 Chanel 3-4 de Wolfe 1 Dietrich 2 Hartnell L Lee,G. R., L Napoleon| 2 fastidiousness Chopin 2 fasting L Erasmus fatalism 3 Caesar fate Bradford 1 Singer2 fathers . Seealso children; parents Carter 3 Cyrus II 1 Frederick\Tilliam I L Giotto 3 Kennedy, J. F., 16-17 Longworth 1 Macmillan 2 Scott4 Truman 2 faux pas Austin,'W.R., L Coolidge11 Grant,U. S., L3 J., 1 Jeffersoo,

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

fact Twain 3 failure Alexander,G., 1 Churchill,R. F. E. S., 1 Thomas,N., 34 fairness Lombardi2 faith France1 faith healing Thurber 3 fame Alcott, L. M., L Anders 1 Arlen 2 Auden 4 Balzac 4 ad 9 Bankhe Brahms7 Bridges1 Caine 1 Copland L Crawford 1 Curie L Davy L Disney 1 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 8 Fairbanks1 Faulkner 5 Holmes,J., 1 Holmes,O. V., Sr., 7 John XXIII 2 Kreisler3 Macauley 6 Miller 1 NapoleonI 5 Oldfield 1

Previn 2-3 ReadingL Reagan 5 Roosevelt, F. D., 5 favors Halifax, C. M., 1 Lincoln,A., 7, 20.30 Nagurski 1 1 Vespasian fear Boileau3 Clay,C. M., L LL Clemenceau Foch 2 Khrushchev 5 Mountbatten 1, Napoleon,E., L fees.Seealso salaries Benny2 Bing 9 Freud3 Holmes,O. W., Sr.,5 Hundley 3 Kemble,F., 1 Kreisler2 Mencken L Nilsson 2-3 4 Paderewski L Schnabel Shaw,G. B., 14 1. Spenser 2 Steinmetz Stravinsky7 Sfard L \Thistler 4 rU7orsley 1 feminism Astor, N., 2 Fonteyn1 Mahaffy 2 Montague L F. D.r 2 Roosevelt, Stael5 fiction/fi ctional characters Balzac 7 1 Saavedra Cervantes Dickens2 Ouida 1 Trollop A., 2-3 fights.Seealso duels Cohn 4 Henry, C., 1 McCoy L Mizner, W., 5 film. Seemovie directors and producers; movies fines Hundley 1 Lincoln,A., 5

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

720
Berra 5 Brahms9 Bucklandl-2 Burns2 Byron 2 Carter 2 Disraeli14 Dooley 1 EdwardVII 5 Field8 , .,2 Garland2 Grant,U. S.,4 Handel 1 Hayakawa1 Hevesy1 Hitchcock 1, 5 N., 2 Johnson, Lee,R. E., 4 Lewis,J. 8., 1 Milnes I MontecuccoliI Moore, G. A.r 2 Previn3 Rhodes 2 Roosevelt, F. D., 4 Schumann-Heink 1 Scott2 Smith,S., 5 Susann 3 Thackeray1 Turner 2" \U7elles t football Baugh1 Gipp I Grange1,-2 Lombardi 1 Maxwell 2-3 Nagurski 1-3 Namath 1 Stuhldreher 1 Thorpe 2 Unitas 1 'S7hite, A. D., I forgery Picasso 8 'Sf., Mizner, 13 forgetfulness. Seealso absentmindedness Beecham, Sir T., 9 II 3 Charles Disraeli10 Drew L Emerson10 Gilbert, J., 1 Matthews L-2 Monroe 2 Repplier1 forgiveness
Cavell 1 Frederick tU7illtam| 2 Luther 1 Marie de M6dicis L formality Bismarck 5 fortitude Napoleon, E., 2 Roosevelt, T., 5 fossils Albert 2 Fourteen Points Clemenceau 8 France Aumale 3-4 Caen 1 de Gaulle 9 frauds Ingyo 1 Johnson, S., 20 Kahn 1 Mizner, W., 13 Taylor, John, 1 free will Singer 2 freedom Aym6 1 Confucius L Jefferson,T., 7 French, the Foch 5 Gabin 1 Johnson, S., 2 Palmerston 3 Voltaire 4 French Resistance B a k e r ,J . , 2 Boswell 1 friendship Addison 3 Boswell 1 Byron 1 Castracani I Cimon 1 Cohan 4 Colerid ge 5 de Gaulle 5 Frith 1 Goldwyn 20 Heine 4 Julia 3 Korda 1 Levant L Lincoln, A., 33 Lyndhurst L North 4 Ruskin 2 frivoliry Cunard L

fingerprints ShawG , .8.r 26 fires Benton 1. Bernard13 Bud6 1 CocteauL Flaherty1 Nero 2 Newton 2 R. B., 15 Sheridan, fireworks CushmanL 2 Richardson fishing Coolidge"1,6 Twain 19 flattery Alexander | 2 Allen, F., 3 Armstroog,L., 3 Augustus3 Bacon3 Caligula2 Chase, S. P., 1, Clay, H.r 4 Elizabeththe Queen Mother L Gilot 1 Holmes,O. W.oSr., 5 Parr L-2 Sharif 1 Tree 3 flirtation Alexander | 2 4 Bismarck Byron 3 de Gaulle10 Depew 2 Elliston 1 4 Fontenelle Fowler L Johnsor,S., 15 Sargent, J. S.,5 flops Kaufman 7-8 Lamb, Charles, 5 flowers de la Mare 1 Meurisse1 Shaw,G. B., L5 flutes Cherubini4 flying LL Clemenceau CorriganL rU7right Brothers L food Barrie8-9

721
frugality Boult 1 Socrates 1 funeral s. Seealso burials Allen, E., 3 Andersen 3 Asquith,M., 3 Auber 4 Barrie 2 Barrymore, M., 317 Black 1 Chesterfield 5 Cohn L Degas3 Holland L Holmes,O. W., Sr., 8 Houdini 2 Ikku 1 Mayer 5 Norbury 2 D., L5 Parker, Thomas,D., 3 Voltaire 9 furniture Baldwin 2 Benchley1 Mizner,'W.,13 gallantry Acheson3 5 Chesterton Edward III 1 Franklin L Herford 3 Jarry 2 Maugham 3 RaleighL Tracy 2 tU7oollcott 7 gambling Bernard4 T., 3 Campbell, Crockford L Fox, C. I., 4 Hyde-White 1 Korda 2 2 Mencken 'W., LL Mizner, games. Seealso card gamesand other specificgames Churchill,R. H. S., 2 NapoleonI 1 L Spencer gangsters CaponeL gardening Emerson2 Russell, Bertrand, 7 gardens Beerbohm 5 ge 4 Colerid genealogists Smith,S.r7 GeneralMotors Vilson, C. E., 1, generosity AlexanderIII 3 Bernard10 Brahms1 Bright 1 Corot L Ford, H., 5 Gandhi,M., 5 Hume 3 Ibn Saud2 Lafayette 1 Nelson5 Noyes 1 genius Apelles1 AquinasL H., 1, Bernstein, Gershwin,G., 4 Hugo 2 Mansart 1 L Paderewski 2 Sarasate StaelL Ifhistler 8 \filde 2 gentlemen Eden,A., 1 Germans AdenauerL Albert 2 Dliazet 1 ghost stories M., 1 Shelley, ghosts du Def fand 2 gifts Albermarle1 Armour 1 Arnould 3 Baker,J., I Caesar 5 Camerofl, J. M., 1 Carroll, L., 1, 1Clemenceau Coolidge17 Corot L Courtneidge1 Dali 3 FranksL Gray 1 Humes L Ibn Saud'W., 2 I Johnson,

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Lamb, Caroline,I Lawrence, T. E., 1 Mastroianni1, MeurisseL Park 1 Patti 1, Perot L Rachel4-5 1Reisenauer Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1 3 Shakespeare Shaw,G. 8., 2L SilversL Smith,S., 10 Toscanini4 Vanderbilt,A., 1 gluttony PrnzaL Ruth 2 1 Schumann-Heink Tetrazzini 1 goads 4 Gosse God. Seealso clergy; religion Bolt 1 Haldan, J. B. S., I Howe, J. W., 1 L John III Sobieski Ker L Owen L Arthur, 3 Rubinstein, 3 Sellers 1 Stravinsky1" Thoreau7 tU7aln L godfathers Jullien 1 \Toollcott 8 gods AlexanderIII 1 gold Kirchhoff 1 golf Ali 3 AscheL Bolt 1 L Castlerosse 4 Eisenhower Ford,G., 1 Grant,U. S., 12 Marquis 2 Mayer 4 L Sarazen Snead1 golfers Nicklaus L Gordian knot AlexanderIII 4

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

722
L Vespasian II 1 Victor Amadeus Greenland Eric the Red 1 greetings Hemingway9 Lillie 8 Marx, G., L4 L Stanley L Wodehouse grief. Seealso bereavement Cohan4 Rossetti2 Thales4 growing up Allen,F., I grudges Barton 1 guarantees \(/ilson, W., 1, guards Curante3 guests Anders en 2 Arnold 1 Bembo1 Bernard1r 9 Bismarck 7 Brodie,B., I Brummell4 Byron 2 Chamberlain, Austen, 2 Chopin 1 Churchill,W., 40 Disrael i 1,4 Edison,T., 8 Edman3 EdwardVII 8 Einstein5 Fleming,I., 1, Foster1 Francis Joseph1 Gleason1 Golden1 Herford 2 Hitchcock 1, 4 Holmes, O. W., Sr.,3 Home,'W'. D., 1 Hook 3 Huxley,A., 4 T. 1., 5 Jackson, Kreisler2 Levant5 Maeterlinck1 Mankiewicz2 Maugh am 2 Previn3 Rogers, W., I Sheridan, R. B., I Sickert1 1 Strachey 3 Susann Trench 2 tilTaugh 5 habit Hilbert 1 halitosis Gelon 1 Woollcott 5 Halley'sComet Twain 23 handicaps BernhardtL1 hands Rachmaninoff 2 handwriting Courteline1 Greeley 5-5 Macrea dy I hanging Fleetwood1 happiness Russell, Bertra nd, 7 harems North I Harvard Eliot, C.'W., 1,-2 hats Brodie,B., 1 Lee,G. R., I Nuffield 1 Victoria 17 rVells 1 tilTilde 15 headmasters Taft, H. D., 1, health Adams, J. Q., 2 Sigismund 1 heart attacks Montgomery,B. L., 4 heat Smith,S.,5 heaven Andrew 1 Cocteau5 EdwardVII 5 Sedgwick, C., I hecklers Addison1 Alexander, George,1 Astor,N., 3 Beecher 1 Buddha2 Clay,H., 6 Disraeli2 Khrushchev 5

gossip Powell 1 gourmets L Brillat-Savarin 5 Rossini governesses Brontd 1 government Cromwell 2 Franklin4 Gandhi,I.,2 Giolitti I 1 Quesnay 15 Talleyrand graduations Dyson L graft. Seealso corruption Curley 1 Nixon 1 P. E., I Trudeau, grammar Austin, A., 1, BouhoursL Churchill,I7., 30 Dean3 4 Greeley Malherbe1 Tooke 1 Grand Canyon Foch 4 grandeur Bacon3 Balsan1 Laughton2 Morgatr,J. P., Sr.,3 Williams 4 grants Hutchins 5 grarirude Augustus 2 Berra4 Emerson 7 Gray 1 Lincoln,A., 35 Maugham4 graves. Seeburial greed Ade 1 L Albemarle Armour L DariusI 2 Fontenelle2 Freud3 Patti 1 Rachel4-5 Raleigh5 RichardI 2 M., 1 Schwartz, Trollop e, A., 2

723
Lamb, Charles, 9 Lloyd George1 Macaulay5 Menzies1 Shaw,G. B., 4 A.8., 2 Smith, Stein L Stravinsky1 \Ufilson, Harold, 1 hedonism LeoXl height Banie 2 Benchley 13 Busby2 Hofmann 1. Jarry 3 Kurland L Lincoln,A., t2 Lloyd George4 Napoleon| 7 Rodgers1 hell Andrew 1 Cocteau5 Greeley7 5 Labouchere Lloyd George1 Luther 2 Mugnier 1 helpfulness EmersonL helplessness Losch 1 hemorrhoids Tennyson8 heredity Shaw,G. B., 9 rU7histler 8 heresy L Servetus heroism AlenEon1 'W., 14 Churchill, Clark, G. R., L Gandhi,M., 4 Oates 1 hiccups Mytton 1 hints , Haydn 2 hippopotamus Darwin, C., 3 Hiroshima Koestler3 historians Mommsen L historical figures Edison, T., 5 history 'W., Churchill, 10,34 Ford, H.r Z Michelet 1 Truman 1 hoaxes Hill, J., 1 Hook 2 hobbies GeorgeV 2 holidays Charles,Prince,2 Hollywood Coote 1 homes.Seehousing hometowns C. M., 1 Sedgwick, tU7illard 1 homosexuality Auden 1 Bogarde1 Duveen3 Fowler 3 Goldwyn 5 Mitford, T., 1 Strachey2 I7ilde 13 I7illiams 3 honesty Churchill, W., 20 FrederickII 2 Lenclos3 honeymoons Parker,D.n 1 honor AquinasL Liliencron2 NapoleonI 13 honors Avempace1 Bialik 1 Cato 3 Clemen ceau2 Disraeli9 H., 4 James, Mably 3 Nelson 3 hope AlexanderIII 3 Bernard15 22 Johnson,5.r horseracing T., 3 Campbell, Crockford L Hyde-IThite 1 horses AlexanderIII 2 Bernard11 CharlesII 1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Fleenrrood 1 Hobson,T., 1 Nagurski 2 horticulture Parker,D., 9 hospitality Khrushchev1 Napoleon I 4 Spooner2 Stalin 2 hospitals Millay 1'$(/., 1. Mizner, P4rker,D., 13 hostsand hostesses Aubernon l-2 Beckford 1 Bernard 1 Berners4 Bowen,E., 1 Brahms5 Brummell 4 Buckland2 A.r 2 Chamberlain, Chopin 1 Chigi 1 Churchill, W., 40 Edward VII 2, 7-8 the Queen Elizabegh Mother 5 Emerson3 Gardner,I. S., 4 Golden 1 Herford 2 Hilbert 2 Hook 3 Levant 6 McCormick 1 Mallarm6 1 Morgatr,J. P., Sr., 5 Napoleon I 4 Necker 1 Rhodes1 Sandwich1 1 Sarasate Shor 1 Sickert 1 Swift 2 Trench 2 Wodehouse1 hotels Coward 15 Frisco 1 Gleason1 Hope 1 Jefferson,T., 4 S., 14 Johnson, Marx, G., 5 Mizner, W., 4-5

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

724
Nixon 3 Parker,D., 4 Talleyrand 11 hypocrites Reed1 Twain 5 ideas \fhitehead 1 identification.Seealso mistaken identity; recognition Abernethy5 Anders 1 Bergen1 ElizabethII 4 Erskine, J., I FrancisJoseph2 Grant, U. S., 8 T. J., 4 Jackson, Jefferson, J., I Lowell, Amy, I Mitchell L Newton 5 Rubinstein, Arthur, 2 Scheffel1 Twain 7 Watson 1 'S(heatcroft 1 identity Sellers 4 idleness Sebastiano del Piombo 7 Thurlow 1 idolatry Allen, F., 3 Bernha rdt 14 ignorance Copland1 Cushman1 Fitzgerald, F. S., 1, Fuller,Melville, I Gesvres 1 Goldwyn419, ll, 1,4 S.,5 Johnson, Pringle1 illegitimacy. Seealso mothers; paternity Cicero4 Gwyn 2 Smith,F. E., 8 illiteracy Grazian o 1-2 Ibsen2 illness.Seealso specificillnesses AlexanderIII 5 Bing5, ll Brummell5 Cobb 1 Cooper,GladyS,2 Curran 4 de la Mare 1 Gunther3 Keats2 Lincoln,A., 27 MacMahon L Mencken3 Pope,Alexander, 4 Sarazen L 1 Sigismund \il7augh 1, 5 illustrations Ross 11, Twain 10 images Toscanini10 imagination Balzac2 Beecham, Sir T., 8 Buckland 2 Casals 4 Clay,H., 3 Harris, F., 2 Hitchcock5 Hofmann 2 Melville 1 Picasso 16-17 imitation Armstrong,L., 3 Chaplin2, 4 Dietrich I Lee,G. R., I Wilde 10 immigrants Schnab el 2 Stravinsky 3 immortality Meyerbeer 1 Michel angelo2 Newton 7 impartiality Edward III 2 imperialism Bismarck8 Frederick II 10 imposters Connelly3 Lewis,S., 3 Romanoff 1,-2 'STatterson L impotence Aumale5 Korda 4 improvisation Jolson1 Kaufman 12-13 Lincoln,A., 38 Morris, C., 1 Rossini4

hotels(continued) elt, T ., 2 Roosev Telford 1 housing Copeland1 Franklin14 Gielgud5 Hearst 5 Mizner, A., 1 Victoria 4 housework Thatcher 1 humiliry Aidan 1 Callas2 Canute 1 CassattL Churchill,W., 14 Edward VII 5 Einstein14 Gandhi,M., lr 3 Hokusai 1 H., 4 James, Kennedy, J. F., I Mably 1 Newton'1,2 Paderewski 3 Philip II 3 Roosevelt, T., 3 humor. Seealso comedy Campbell,Mrs. P., 7 \ilToollcom 3 humorists.Seealso comedians Ade 1 Herford 4 Hungarians Szilard1 hunger Churchill,W., 26 Hitchcock 1 Susann 3 hunting Asquith, M., 2 Baruch2 Roosevelt, T., 5 Tennys on 7 husbands. Seealso marriage, wives Gabor 2-3 Hemingway2 Lytton 1 Parker, D., 17 hypochondria Chekhov 1 Farquh ar 1 hypocrisy Beria 1 FrederickII 10 Morgafl, J. P., lr.r 2

725
Unzelmann1 impudence Stravinsky5 inattention Roosevelt,F. D.r 7 inaugurations Roosevelt,F. D., 5 incompetence Nicholas I 1 Philip III 1 indecency Churchill, W., 48 Coward 3 Niven 1 Indians, American Churchill, W., 19 Cope 1 P. H., 1 Sheridao, Tecumseh1 Indians, Asian Churchill, W., 19 Eliot, J., 1 indignation G, W., 1 Russell, indiscretion Mathilde 1 infallibility Dulles I Goldwyn 7 infatuation Shaw,G.8.r 22 infidelity. Seealsolove affairs; sex lovers;mistresses; AlexanderVI 1 Alexandra 1 Anderson 1 Augustus5 Barbirolli 1 Bernard3 Boleyn 1 Caesar2 1 Caroline,Duchesse, Caroline of Brunswick 2 Collins,J., 1 Conti 1 Feydeau3 Freud 1 Gabor 2 Giampetro 1 Howard, C., 1 Julia 1 Kaufman20 Molnir 6 Parker,D., 4 Richelieu1 Thibaud 2 Tooke 2 Webster,N., L infirmity. Seealsoillness Adams,J. Q., 2 Chesterfield 5 ingenuity Alexander III 4 Alexander,S., 1 Anaximenes1 Archimedes3 Arno 1. Avempace1 Baeyer1 Bankhead8 Barnum 1. Bing 5 Bonicelli 1 Buffalmacco1 Choate 2 Cole 1 Columbus 2-3 Connelly3 Cummings1 Edward III 1 Ibrahim 1 Menelik II 1 Mozart 4 Perot 1 Rabelais1 Victoria 10, t6 Voltaire 4 ingratitude Clark, G. R., 1 1 Schwarzenberg Shaw,G. 8., 21 See alsowills inheritances. Lear 2 Rhodes4 Richelieu3 injuries Bridger 1 Brummell 1 Patton L Raglan 1 Reagan2-3 in-laws Churchill, W., 27 Foch 4 Marquand 1 Russell, J., 3 innocence O'Toole L inns. Seehotels inquisitiveness Talleyrand 1 insanity Chaloner1 GeorgeIII 5 Nerval 2 rU7olf1 inscriptions.Seealso autographs

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Allais 1 Bowles 1 Brahms8 Buckley 2 Byron 4 Coolidge14 Cromwell 5 Darius I 2 Ford, H., 5 Nash 1 Plato 2 insects Haldane, J. B. S., L insincerity AugustineL Barrymore,I.r 2 Christina 1. North 4 insomnia Knox, R., 1 inspections Knox, R., 3 inspiration Austin, A., 1 Beethoven2 Brahms11 Coleridge2 Forgy 1 Gipp 1 Levant 4 Massanet1 15 Picasso Toscanini10 insults Abernethy 1 Adams, F. P., 4-5 Alcibiades1 AIi 2 Allen, F.r 2 Aristippus 2 Armour 1 Arnold 1 Arnould 1, 34 Asche 1 Asquith, M., l-z Astor, N,, 1 Bacon4 Bankhead 11 Barham 2 Barrow 1 Barrymore,E.r 2 Barrymore,J., 3, 5-6 Beaumarchais 1. Beaverbook 1 Beecham, Sir T.r 4, ll, t4 Beecher2-3 Belloc 3 Benton 2 Berners1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

insults(continued) Bernhardt 9 Bevan1 Blumenthal1 Boswell2 Brahms4 Brummell 3 Bryan 2 L Buchanan Buckingham1 Busby2 Butler, B. F., 1. Canning2 Carter 2 CharlesII 8 Chesterton 5 Choate 3-4 'W., Churchill, 7,29, 38 Cicero2 C l a y ,H . , l - 2 , 7 Coward 6-7, 9 Crockeft2 Curran 2-3 Dante L Demosthenes L Denis2 Dietz "1, Disraeli5, 13 Dumaspire 3 Ellenborough 2 Elliot 1 Fillmore 1 Foote 3-4 Fuller, Melville, 1, Fuseli1 Gardner,I. S., l-2 "1. Gatti-C asazza Gershwin7 Gilbert,W. S., 4, 619 Goering 1 Goldsmith 1 Grant, LJ.S., 7 Greeley1-2 Grote L Guitry I HaeselerL Handel 4 Hazlitt 2 Herford 5 Hill, R., 2 Home,W. D., I Howells 1 L. B., I Johnson, Kaufman"1., 3, 1,1 Kieran 1 Koussevitsky 3 Landowska1 Lehmann1. Lichtenberg1

Liebermann L Liszt 1 Lunt 2 Marquand 1 Martinelli 2 Maury 2 MenziesL Meyerbeer2 Moln6r 3 Muggnier 4 Musset L Namath 1 Norbury 1 Parker, D., 3, L8 Phillips2 Porson4-s Rachel5 Raphael1 Rivarol 2 Sandwich1 Scon 5 Seeley 1 Shaw, G. 8., 3, 8, LL, 18 Sheridan, P. H.r 2 Sheridar, R. 8., 3, 12 Sickert3 Skinner,C. O., I Smith,A. E.r 2 Smith,F. E., 2, 5 Smith,S.,4, 12 Stal4 Stevens 2 Strachey1 Talleyrand1,0 Voltaire 14 I7augh 1 Whistler 15-17 ITilde 6-9, 14 I7ilkes 4-6 VilsonrU/.r 2 'V7ordsworth 2 insurance Abbott and Costello1 Frick 1 integration Everett 1. Truth 1 intellectuals Stevenson, A. E.r 2 intelligence Heine L Luce,C. 8., 3 Spellman1 interrogations Cobb 2 Rochefort L interruptions Astor, N., 3 Churchill,W., 35

Kemble, J. P., 1 Macmillan 1 Madison 1" Bertrand,1 Russell, Levant 2 interviews Adams, J. Q., I Bing 3 Carson 1 Channing1 G., 2 Cleveland, Emerson4 Frost 2 Maeterlinck2 Ruth 4 SaarinenL Steinbeck 1 Twain 12 intimidation A., 2 Jackson, Tintoretto L introductions Albert, E., I AndersonL Asquith,M., I Bankhead 5 Carolineof Brunswick Choate3 Coolidge13 Firbank 1 Franklin 10 Gulbenkian 3 Johnsor,S., ll Karl AlexanderI Kelland2 Lillie 7 Peard1 Robinson, E. A., I Tennyson5 Tree 6 inventions Archimedes 2 Baeyer1 Brodie,W., 1, Degas1 Edison,T., 3 Howe, E., 1 Mao Zedong I Schonbein 1
inventors

Bell,A. G., I du Deffand 3 Edison, T., 1, 4,7-8 Fuller,R. B., I Kaufman 7 Kennedy, J. F., 9 Thoreau5 Watt L Westinghouse 1"

727
mvestment Astor, I. J.r 2 Baruch 1 GeorgeI 1 Gould 2 Green,H., 1 Thales2 invitations Barrymore,I., 6 Belmont 1 Butler, S., 4 Dahn 1 Edward VII 1 Foster 1 Goethe3 Levant 8 F. D., 5 Roosevelt, L Sarasate Shaw,G. 8., 17 Spooner2 Ireland Cole 1 Collins, M., 1 Curran 1 De Val eral, 4 Irish, the Kennedy, J. P., 1 irony Payne1 F. D., 1 Roosevelt, irreverence Bacall 1 Israel Weizmann 1 Italy Giolini 1 the Japanese, Garner 1 iealousy Ali 1 Beckett 2 Columbus2 Diaghilev 1 Gielgud 5 Greville 1 Guitry, S., 1 Nesbit 1 Nixon 4 North 1 Rogers,S., 4 iewels Arnould 3 Benny 5 Cornelia 1 Greville 1 Havemeyer1 TaylornE., 1 Jews.Seealso anti-Semitism Adler 1 Fields5 La Guardia 3 Liebling 1 Perlman 1. iinxes Lincoln, R. T., 1 iokes Coolidge13 Lederer 1 Lincoln,A., 19 Twain 10 Victoria L5 journalism Hearst 1 journalists Adams,J. Q., 1 Bing 3 Carson 1 Cleveland, G., 2 Connelly 3 Coolidge10 Coward 16 Curie 1 Duse 1 Foch 1 Ford, G., 1 Fowler 2 Frost 2 Hammett 3 Hearst 3 L. 8.r 2, 6 JohnsoD, Maeterlinck 2 Northcliffe 1 O'Neill L $le 1 Steinbeck1 Twain lr 3 iudges II 1" Cambyses Coolidge3 Curran 2 Ellenborough1 Holmes,O. Itr., Jt., 5 Hutchins 2 Landis 1 Lincoln, A,, 5 Mansfield 1 North 3 Philip II 1 Smith,F. 8., 2, 5 iustice Ibn Saud 1 Julian 1 La Guardia 1 Philip II 1 2 Socrates Solomon1

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

kidnappers CaesarL killing. Seealso murder Shaw,G. 8., L6 killf oys Gladstone1 kindness Rhodes1 kissing Bing 11 ChevalierL Duse L Halifax, E., 1 Joyce,James,8 Marx, C., I Sargent, J. S., 5 knowledg. Ford, H.r 4 PompadourL Talleyrand5 laboratories Edison, T., 7 lambs Scoa 2 landlords Halbe 1 Telford 1 landscapes 1 Queensberry language Aym6 1 Dean 4 Denis 1 Durante 2 Hamsun 1 Horowitz 3 Koo L Laemmle 1 Lubitsch 1 languagebarriers. Seealso accents, foreign Borge 3 Franklin 11 Reagan5 languages Bing 1 Callas 1 Meir 3 Metternich, K., 1 NasserL Parker,D., 12 Romanoff 2 Tosti 1 Villiers de L'Isle-Adam 1 Whistler 5 last words. Seealsodeath; deathbeds; dying Adams r I., 2

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

728
Tolstoy 1 Vega Carpio 1 Villa 1 Wilde 17-1,8 lateness Levant 7 Latin Este 1 laughter Abbott and Costello 1 Galen 1 Garland 2 Lincoln,A., 25, 38 Titian 1. law Solon 1 lawsuits Sage1 Smith,F. E., 3 Yusupov1 lawyers Ade 1 Black 1 Brougham 1. Choate 2,7 Curran 2 Darrow 2 Ellenborough1 Fraguier 1. Grant, LJ.S., 7 Holmes,O. W., Ir.r 2 Hutchins 2 JamesI 1 Kennedy, I. F,, 8 Knox, P. C., L Lincoln, A,, 4, 6 Norbury 2 Norton 1 Rockefeller,'W.,L Root 1 Sage1 Smith, F. 8., Z-s Thurlow 4 T7ebster, D., 4, G-g Iaziness Barrymore,J., I Briand 2 Kaufman2 Webster,D., l-2 leadership Aidan I Alexander III 2 Churchill,Sf., 16,34 Rutherford 1 learning Nhed,2 Johnsor, S., I lechersAechery Churchill, W., 47 Palewski1 Winters 1 lecturers Auden 3 T'wain 7 legality Nixon 9 Legionof Honor Clemen ceau2 legislators. Seealso Congress; politicians Solon 1 leisure Dionysius II 1 lesbians Goldwyn 5 letters Alexander,H., 1 Beecher 2 Courteline1 Davy I ElizaberhI 3 Erskine , T., 1 Falla 1 Haydn 3 T., 5 Jefferson, Lincoln,A., 28 Marx, G., 13 Sellers 2 Selwyn5 Suess 1 Swift 1 Talleyrand1, 8 Truman 7 Twain 15 lexicographers S., 4-5 Johnsotr, liars. Seealso lies Bernhardt10 Bruce I Harris, F., 2 Moore, G. E., 1 libel Coolidge2A Yusupov 1 liberals Ingersoll 1. liberty Paine1 Roland 1 libraries Dickens5 'Omar 1. lies.Seealsoliars Aumale 1" Labouchere 1 Montagu 2 Niven 2 North 3

last words (continued) Addison 4 Allen, E., 4 Aretino 1 Azeglio 1 Barnum 3 Barrymore,J., 10 Behan4 Bell, A. G., 2 Bouhours 1 Caesar1.0 Catherineof Aragon 1. Cavell 1 CharlesII 9 Chesterfield 5 Colette 1 Comte 1 Cooper, Gladys, 2 Danton L Dreiser I Euler 2 Favras1. Field,J., 1 FredericktilTilliamI 3 Frohman 1. GeorgeV 10 Gilbert, H., 1 Gipp 1 Goethe5 Goldberg2 Green, J. H., 1 Hale I Heine 3 Henry, O., 1 HolmeS, J., 4 Housman3 Ibsen3 Jacksor,T. J.r 7 Jones,H. A., I Kelly, G., 1 Ker 2 Knox, R., 5 McKinley 2 Maria Theresa1. Mizner, W., 5 Montagu 2 Narviez 1 Nelson 7 Newton'/.,2 Norbury 3 Perugino2 Pitt 4 Pornpadour 2 Rhodes3 Saroyan1 Sedgwick,J., I Sobhuza II L Stein5 Thurber 10

729
Rubinstein, Anton, 1, ScipioNasicaSerapio1 Thales5 Thibaud 2 Yoshida 1 lingerie Du Pont 1 liquor. Seealso brandy; drinking; drunkenness; wine Cooper,V., I Croll 1 Fields3 Porson3 Russell, G. UI., 2 TalleyrandL3 Trollope,A., 13 tU7ilde 17 literalism Poe 1 loans Altenberg1 ey 14 Benchl Coolidge5 Moln6r 2 R. B.r 7 Sheridan, lobsters 2 Feydeau Nerval 1 logic Joad 1 Knox, R., 4 Newton 9 loneliness Parker,D.r 2 longevi ty . Seealso old age Adenauer3 Auber 2 Blake,E.r 2 BorgesL Burns 3 1 Cagliostro 'Sf., 45 Churchill, Edward VII 4 Moore, G. A., 3 Philip, Prince,5 M., 4 Sargent, Voltaire lL See longwindedness. talkativeness losers NapoleonI L lost generation Stein4 lotteries Mizner, W., LL love Browning,R., 3 Disraeli3 Twain 4 love affairs.Seealso infideliry; lovers;mistresses; sex Brougham3 Carter L D'Annunzio 2 Foote5 Gabor 1 Hearst 4 Kaunitz-Rietburg 1 Luce,C. 8., L lovers.Seealso infidelity; love affairs;mistresses; sex Cooper,Gary,I Gibbon 1 Hugo 2 Louis XV 1 Mathilde 1 Nelson5 Nesbit 1 Rachel1 tU7ellington L5 Iferfel L loyalty AlexanderIII 3 2, 6 Augustus Butler,B. F., 2 Carolineof Brunswick3 Cocteau2 EinsteinLL FrederickII 8 2 Hammerstein Louis XVIII 1 T., L Roosevelt, Theodoric 1 \Washington 4 Xerxes 2 luck Churchill,W., 9 Cocteau3 1 Jessel lust Barrymore, J., 10 Caroto L 3 Chevalier S., L9 Johnson, Landers3 Petronius1 luxury Richar d| 2 lyricists Hammerstein 2
machinery Archimedes 2 magazines Coleridge 1 Woollcott 5 magicians Houdini l-z

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

malapropisms Roche1 malice Garland 1 Gould 2 Parker,D., 8 Rogers, S., Ir 4 manners Acton 1 Astor, N., 5 Barrymore,E.r 2 Bembo 1 Brahms10 Cadbury 1 Chanel 1 5 Chesterfield Churchill,W., 28 F. F., 1 Cleveland, Coolidgell Dalton 1 David 1. Dumaspire 4 ElizabethII 3 Foch 5 Giles 1 Kingsale1 Lear 1 LouisXIV 2,8 Marie Antoinette2, 4 Milne 1 Norton L D., 18 Parker, SchweitzerL Stanley1 Talleyrand10 manuallabor Ruskin 1 maps Churchill,W., l, 17 marksmanship 10 Clemenceau marriage Albert 1 AlexanderVI 1 Allen, E., 3 Astor, N., 2 Auden 1 Azeglio 1 Balfour 1 Balzac 1 Baylis1 Carlyle 4 Carnegie 2 Carolineof Ansbach2 Carolineof Brunswickt Chaloner1 Choate 1 Clark, M. W., 1 Coke 1

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730
Gaussl-2 KasnerL Kelvin 4 Newton 10 Pascal1 1 Ramanujan Russell, Bertrandr2-3 mathematics 2 Descartes Gibbs2 Kac 1 Lindemann1 O'Neal 1 Pascal1 Plato l-2 matricide Agrippina 2 Bridger 2 Curley 1 medicaladvice.Seecures;diagnoses;doctors mediocrity Hruska 1 meditation Newton 11 meetings Pitt 2 Spaak1 Thalberg l-2 Twain 11 megalomania Caligula2 Pulitzer 1 memorials. Seealso tributes Bacall 2 memory Alfred 2 Barton 1 Cagney1 Casals3 Cortot 1 ElizabethI 2 Emerson10 Foote 1 Gilbert , J., t Jeffersoo, J., 1 Johnsor,S., 1 Kant 2 Karsavina1 Macaulay 2 Porson 1 Toscanini3 men Campbell, Mrs. P., 7 Gelon 1 Livermore 1. mercy Clemenceau 10 Coolidge5 ElizabethI 1 PeterI 1 futhagoras L 2 Schwarzenberg mermaids 1 Seferis messages Darius I 1 meteorology Thales2 mice Hatto 1 military, the Talleyrand9 Whistler 2 military leaders Adams,A. A., 1 Bismarck2 Cromwell 3 l-z Eisenhower F r e d e r i cIk I 1,3,9, ll Grant, U. S., 5, 9 T. J., 4 Jacksoo, ,,/-,r Nelson 34r 6 Patton l-2 P6tain 1 Taylor, M., 1 military strategy Forrest 1 Grant, U. S., 4 Richelieu2 millionaires Bennett, J. G., 3-5 Bryan 3 Getty I-z Green,H.r 2 Gulbenkianl-2 Hoffmann 1 Kennedy, I. F., 4 MorgaD, J. P.,Jr., tr 34 Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1" Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1 Sackville-\U7est 1 Thomson,R., 1 mimes Marceau 1 mind-reading Churchill,R. H. S., 2 Taylor,J., I miracles France1. mirrors Carroll, L., 2 Onassis 1 mischief La Guardia 4 miserliness Aristippus 1 Bernard1

ge (continued) marria Curran 3 Disraeli 3 Donne 1 Dryden 2 Edward VIII 2 Flanner1 Gabor 1 Geoffrin 1 Goldwyn 22 Haydn 3 Henri IV 3 22 Johnson,5., Laughton 1 1 Marx, G., 1" Mitchum 1. Moln6r 9 Nivernais L Parker,D., 5 Reading1 Richelieu1 Rogers,S., 1 Siddons1 Swift 3 Thatcher 1 Thorndike 2 Tooke 2 Victoria 7 I7alker 1 I7ebb 1 marriageproposals. Seealso courtship Adenau er 2 Beecham, Sir T., 1 Grant, [J. S., L Lenya L Lewis,S., 1 Victoria 5 Webster,D., 5 martyrdom Cranmer L masculinity Coward 4 Hellman 1 mastectomy Longworth 3 masturbation Susann 1 materialism Schweitzer 3 mathematicians Archimedes 34 Babbage 1 Bernoulli 1 Diderot 1 Dirichlet 1 Euclid 1 Euler 2 Fermat 1

731
Cockcroft 1 Coolidge17 Fontenelle2 Foote 8 Golden 1 Marlborough 1 Mayer 3 More, H., 1 Pliny 1 Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1 Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1 misers Benny 1 Perugino1 Thomson,Roy, I Whitney 1 misfortunes Disraeli 7 Napoleon,E., 3 misinterpretation Croesus1 Reagan5 mismanagement Talleyrand15 misrepresentation Rops 1 missionaries Gregory | l-2 mistakenidentity. Seealso identification ; recognition Alfred 1 Anderson 1 1 Anne, Princess, ad 7, 9 Bankhe ey 6 Benchl Berra 3 Brandt 1 Caruso2 Choate 5 Coleridge5 Curie 1 Dewey,J., 3 EdwardVII 11 Fairbanks2 Gielgud3 Gordon,J. B., 1 Harte 2 Humboldt 1 T. J.r 7 Jacksotr, Jacobi 1 JosephII 1 KembleS., 1 Kreisler 1, 3 Lais 1 Lowell, R., 1 Marx, G,, 1 Masaryk 1 Nabokov 3 Peterborough1 Rogers,S., 3 2 RooseveltrT.r Schweitzer5 Slezak2 Smith,S., 2 Tennyson6 Warner 2 mistakes Adams,Ansel, 1 Khrushchev4 Richter 2 Ruth 4 Seealsoinfidelity; mistresses. love affairs; lovers; prostinttes; sex Adams,J., 1 Albemarle 1 Aumale l-2 G.r 2 Boulangr, Caesar5 Caroline of Ansbach 1 CharlesII 9 Gwyn 1 Hearst 4 J6r6me 1 Louis XV 1 Louis XVI 1 Molnir 5 Napoleor, J. C. P., 1 Parker,D., 4 PoggioBracciolini 1 Sedley1 Voltaire 8 misunderstandings Albert 2 Beaumont1 Butler, H. M., 1 Churchill, W., Ilr 36 de Gaulle 1 Eug6nie2 Foote 5 GeorgeV 8 Giles 1 Gladstone2 Gosse3 Heyerdahl 1 J6r6me1 Marten 1 Nixon 8 Victoria 13 mobs A., 1 Johnson, Peterborough1 models kvant 4 Parrish 1 Taft, L., 1 Titian 1 modesty

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Auden 214 Constable2 Guggenheim1 Julia 2 Kennedy, J. F., 13 Napoleon I 2 OscarII 1 Paderewski1 Robinson,E. A., 1 Rowland 1 Stravinsky10 l7histler 5 Monaco Rainier III 1 money Addison 3 Agassiz1 Altenberg 1 Alvanley 1 Anderson2 d 14 Bernar Carver 1 Crosby 1 Darrow 2 T., 9 Edison, ElizabethI 3 Getty 2 Hecht 1 Kennedy, J. P.r 4 Lincoln,4., 6 Marx, G., 8 Mayer 3 NapoleonI 13 317-I0 Picasso Raft 1 Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1 Ross3 Rossini10 Rothschild 1 Shaw,G. B., 6, 19 Stravinsky7 Tree 7 moneylenders Poole 1 monkeys Crockeft 2 moodiness Edward Vll 7 moon, the Armstrotrg,N., 1-2 morality Bridges2 moralizing Arnold 2 T., 4 Roosevelt, morbidity Selwyn 1 mortality Churchill, If., 5

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OF SUBJECTS

732
movies,silent Beethoven4-5 Previn 1 Blake,E., 1 murder.Seealso assassination; Blech 1 execution Brahms"1,-3r 7 Agrippina 2 Bull l-2 AlexanderI 1 Btilow 2 Alfonso XIII 1 Casals1-3 Baker,I., 2 Chopin 1 Booth,J. W., I Cohan 3 Christie, A.r 2 Cortot 1 Fergusson L Dreyschock1 Levant 1 Einstein15 Louis XV 3 E l m a n1 , 3 Mizner, V., 10 Enesco1. Nero 1 Field,J., 1 Nesbit 1 FosterL Stalin 1 GeorgeIII 4 murderers Gershwin,G., 5-7 Landru 1 Gilbert,V. S., 3 Lowell, R., 2 Godowsky 1 mushrooms Goodman,B., I Nero L Grainger 1 music.Seealso concerts;opera HarrisoD,G., I Antheil 1 Haydn 2 Bach,C. P. E., 1 Heifetz l, 4-S Beecham, Sir T., 7 Hess1 Casals 4 Hofmann l-2 Christi, Horowitz "1,-2 J., 1 '1,-2 Faur6 1 Kreisle r GeorgeVI 1 LandowskaI Grant, U. S., 11, Levant21 7 Haydn 1 Liberace1 Hindemith 1 Liszt 2 Johnsor,S., 8-9 Marx, G., 5 Klemperer3 Monteux 1-2 Lincoln,A., 1,7 Mozart 4 Mahler 1 Pachmann 1-3 Reger1 Paderewski 1,-6 Sargent, M., 1,-2 Perlman1 Stravinsky2, 8-9 Piatigorsky1 Toscanini2 Previn L tilTellington 9 Rachmaninoffl-2 musicalinstruments. Seealso Reisenauer 1 specific instruments Richter 2 Antheil 1 Rosenth al l-2, 4 Rossini8 Rossini 2,7-8 musicians. Seealso composers; Rubinstein, Anton, I conductors; rehearsals; Rubinstein, Arthur, 2 singers Saint-Sadns 1 Adams,Ansel,1 Sarasat e l-2 Allen, F., 2 Schillinger 1 Armstrong,L.r 2 Schnab el 2-3 Arne 1 Schonb erg2 Bach,C. P. E., 1 Sibelius 1 Bach,J. S., I Stokowski 1 Barbirolli I Sullivan, A. S., L Bart6k 1 Thibaud I Beecham, Sir T., 34, 7-8, Toscanini1-3 1 0 - 1 3 ,1 6 S7alterI

mortality (continued) Empedocles 1 Goethe4 mothers.Seealso children; fathers;parents Agrippina l-2 Alembert 1 Alexander III 1 Cornelia I Coward 13 GeorgeVI 3 Grant, C., 1 Lenclos4 McCullers 1 Solomon1 Victoria 3 Washington5 motivation Coward 2 mottoes Edward I 1 Edward II 1 mountain climbing Kasner2 Mallory 1 mourning.Seebereavement; grief movie directorsand producers Cocteau2 Cukor 1 Curtiz l-z Ford, J., 1 Goldwyn 12 Hitchcock 2-3, 5 Huston I Kennedy, J. P., 2 Korda 1 Macrea dy 2 Rich 1 Thalberg3 Thurber 2 tU7ilder 4-5 movies Barrymore,I., 4 Chaplin 3 Cocteau2 Davies,M., 1 Eliot, T. S., 7 Fitzgerald, F. S., I Flaherty 1 Godard 1 Goldwyn 4-5, 13, 17 N., I Johnsotr, Jolson 1 Thalberg3 Thurber 7 Tree 4 Warner 1 Yusupov 1

733
T7alton 1 Wieniawski 1 Muslims Churchill, W., 45 mustaches Churchill, \Uf.,45 Dali 2 Drew 1 mutiny Cinque L naivet6 Olivier 1 Ross7 names Asquith, M., 1 CharlesII 4 Clay,H.r 4 Connelly 2 Cooper,D., 213 DumaspDreI Edison,C., 1 Edward VII 6 Emerson10 Eric the Red 1 Fielding2 Fredericklfilliam IV 1 GeorgeV 7 Goldwyn 1, 15-15 Hooker 1 Humphrey 1 Jacksor,T. J., 1 L Joynson-Hicks Jullien 1 Millay 1 Nixon 7 Pater L Plomer 1 Ramsay2 Smith,F. E., 8-9 Stravinsky3 'Walton 1 'S7atson 1 Whistler L8 nationalism Johnson,S., 2, 10-12 Ifilson, W., 5 nationality Churchill,W., 13 2 Diogenes Kennedyr l. P., 1 nationalization Churchill, \Uf.,37 nature lovers Chapman, John, 1,-2 naval warfare Fulton 1 Perry 1 navigation Corrigan 1 Nazis Auden 1 Christian X 1 Einstein8 Goering 2 La Guardia 3 Picasso 5 West, R., 3 Wilder 1 negotiations.Seealso peace agreements/treaties Bing 6 N., 1 Chamberlain, Foch 3 Goldwyn 8, 21 Gomez 1 Korda 5 Meir 1 Shaw,G. B., 19 Tecumseh1 neighbors Botticelli 1 Buffalmacco1 3 Jusserand nepotism Kennedy, J. F., 8 nervousbreakdowns Lowell, R., 1 nervousness Gielgud 1 Hyrtl 1 2 Koussevitsky newlyweds Baldwin 2 news Napoleon I 14 newspapers Baldwin 3 Beaverbrook1 Bennett, J. G., l-2 Coward 15 GreeleyL Greenwood 1 Hearst 1-3 I.r 2 James, T., 7 Jefferson, Kennedy, J. F., 5 Kipling 1 Pulitzer 1 Scripps1 Thomson,R., 1 Nobel Prize Beckett 2 Bialik 1 Greene2 nobility . Seearistocrats;royalty noise Johnson,S., 9

rNDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Sheridar,R. 8., 4 nonconformists Shelley, M., 2 North Pole Peary 1 Smith, S., 3 noses Booth,I. B.r 2 Davenant 1 Gainsborough1 Wellington 3 notoriety Nast 1 novelists Trollope, F., 2 nuclearpower Ferrni l-z Oppenheimer2 Rabi 1 nuclearwar. Seeatomic weaPons nudity Adams,J. Q., 1 ad 12 Bankhe Behan 1 Blake,'W.,1 1 Borghese Bowra 1 Castiglione1. Churchill, W., 20 Eugnie2 Godiva 1 Graole 1 Howarth 1 1 Jusserand Kaufmen 9 Lamb, Caroline, 1 Marx, G., 12 Moore, G. A.r 4 Poe 1 Robert, L., 1 Scheffel1 I7histler 5 numbers Ramanuian1 nuns Behan4 O'Toole 1 Teresaof Avila 1 nurseryrhymes Parker,D,, 13 nymphomaniacs Garland 1 oaths Louis XVm 1 obedience Gibbon 1 Grant, LJ.S., 2

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

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I7ells 3 Olympics Nurmi 1 omens Augustus1 Gregory 2 one-upmanship Aumale2 onomatopeia Churchill,W., 35 opera.Seealso music; singers Arditi I Edward VII 9 Nilsson1,4 Tamagno 1. Tetrazzini 1 Toscanini5 Ustinov 1 opportunism Richelieu3 oppression ConfuciusL Euler 1 optics Newton 5 optimism Franklin12 orators,oratory. Seespeakers; speeches orchards Emerson2 orphanages Ford, H., 5 outspokenness Astor, N., 3 ownership Nuffield 1 Oxford Gosse1 oysters ThackerayI pacifism Boas 1 Debs 1 Fora,H., 1 Fox, G., 1 Lowell, R., 1 Rivera 1 pain NapoleonIII 2 Napoleon,E., 2 painters.Seeartists,visual paintings Beaton2 Churchill,W., 41,44 Corot 2-3 Duveen1 GesvresI GiorgioneL Havemeyer1 Hocking 1 Isabey1 L6vis 1 Mizner, V., 12 Picasso 18 Stein7 PanamaCanal Charles V (Spain) 2 Knox, P. C., 1 parades Liebling 1 paranoia Esposito1 Hugo 4 pardons Debs 1 Maria Fedorovna1 Oppenheimer 3 parents.Seealso children; fathers; mothers Alembert 1 Bernstein, L., 1 Clemenceau 5 de Gaulle5 Diogenes 5 Edward VIII 3 Fonda2 GeorgeV 5 Gibbon I Monteux 3 Twain 8 Paris Duke 1 parodies Greene1 Partridge 1 Tennyson9 parties Astor, M., 1 Beerbohm 4 Brummell4 Chisi 1 Edison,T., 8 Hitchcock 4 McCormick 1 Mankiewicz 2 Shaw,G. 8., 18 partners.Seecollaboration Passron Campbell,Mrs. Strachey4 paternity.Seealso illegitimacy AlexanderIII 1 Burr 1 Feydeau1 Julia 1 patience

obesity Chesterton4, 6-8 Dietz 1 Guines1 Kemble,S., 1 Merrill 1 Schumann-Heink 3 Smith,F. E., 9 Taftr'W. H., l, 3 Tetrazzini L obfuscation Adee 1 obituaries Kipling 1 Russell, Bertrand,5 Sargent, M., 5 Twain 14 obliviousness Coleridge3 obscenity Ross10 Twain 10 obscurity Browning, R., I Jerrold 1 observation Colette 1 Oedipuscomplex Beerbohm 3 offices Parker,D.r 2 old age.Seealso longevity Adams,J. Q., 2 Adenauer3 Auber 4 Aumale 5 Barrymore,E., 1 Barrymore,J.r 7, 9 Bernha rdt 16 Cato 2 Chesterfield 4-5 Chevalier3 Churchill,W., 45,4749 de Gaulle 12 Dumaspire 9 Emerson10 Fontenelle 3, 5-6 HolmeS, O. W., Jr., 618 Housman2 Hyde, C., I Julia 3 Maugham 5 Michel angelo7 Mises 1 Monteux 4 Paderewski 5 Rops 1 Shaw,G. B., 23r 27 Stengel 5-5

735
Churchlll, V., 22 Patients Garth 1 Otto L patriotism Aumale34 Baldwin 1 Cavell 1 ChristianX 1 Francisll 2 Hale 1 Palmerston3 Pitt 4 Russell r I., t 9 Toscanini 'Ifashington 8 patronage Dante 1 E. A.r 2 Robinson, Thurlow 2-3 patrons Boileau1 Raleigh 5 2 Spenser peaceagreements/treaties Alexander III 5 8 Clemenceau Foch 3 GeorgeV 6 Grant, U. S., 3 Kallio 1 Napoleon III 3 pearls Nilsson 2 Vanderbilt,A., 1 peasants Talleyrand12 Tennyson7 pedestrians GeorgeV 9 perfectionism CzanneI KlempererL perfume Arnim 1 Landers3 persistence Fraguier 1 perspiration Dreyschock1 Palmerston2 pessimism Keynes2 Lloyd George2 Pfltain 2 Reagan1 pestering Orsay 2 pets Campbell,Mrs. P., 4 Churchill, If., 42 Coolidge11 Curran 2 Dali 6 D'Annunzio 1. Green,H.r 2 Kneller 2 Lillie 1 Mathilde 1 Nerval 1 Newton 2, 5 Nixon 1 Parker,D., t9 Pythagoras1 1 Sackville-I7est I7ellington 12 philanthropists Carnegie1 Morgatr,J. P., Sr., 8 philanthropy Brandt L philosophers Aristippus 1, 3 de Gaulle 7 1, Descartes Deweyr I.r 2 Diogenes1, 4 Emerson8 Fuller, Margaret, 1 Hegel 1 Hume 2 'Sf., 1 James, Moore, G. E., 1 Peabody1 Plato 1 Russell, Bertrand,5-7, !3 1 Satayana 1 Schopenhauer 1-2 Socrates Teng Shih 1 Thales3-5 Voltaire 6 Whitehead 1 Zeno I philosophy Cohen 1 S., 17 Johnson, photographers/photo graphy Anders 1 Capa 1 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 9 Kennedy, I. F., 10 Ramsey 2 photographs Casals4 Hillary 1 John XXIII 3

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Khrushchev3 A. E., 3 Stevenson, Vidal 1 physicists 1 Oppenheimer physics Einstein15 pianos Borge 1 3 Paderewski piety Addison 4 Dante 2 Edison , T., 6 pilots Corrigan 1 Metaxas L pinching Trench 1 pioneers Clay, H., 3 pirates Caesar1 plagiarism AndersenL Bacon2 Bernard5 Borodin 1 Biilow 3 Harris, F., 1 Hazlitt 2 Hellmesberger L Kelly, M., 1 Liszt 2 Michelangelo5 Parker,D., 20 Russell, Bertrand,4 Twain 15 I7ilde 6-7 plain speaking Pringle 1 plants 1 Schopenhauer playwrights. Seealso writers Allais 2 Andersen1 Archer 1 Beaumont1 Congreve1 Coward 8 Dumas pire 8 Feydeau4 Kaufman L, 12, 15 Klein 1 Lamb, Charles,5 Lederer 1 O'Neill l-2 Racine 1 Shakespeare 2

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political parties Luce,C. 8., 3 politicans.Seealso diplomars; presidents; statesmen Acheson7-2 Astor,N., 1-3, 6 Bryan 2 Buchanan I Burke 3 Butler,R. A., I Canning1 Chamberlain, A., 1 Churchill,\X/.,5, lsr 23, 32,34 Cicero 2-3 Clay,H., 2, 5, 7 Coolidge3-4, 15 De Val era2 Disraeli6-7 Fouch61 Franklin 4 Garrick 2 Goldberg1 Hadrian 1 Hardie I Harrison,B. (President), 1, Holles 1 Holmes,F. D., 1 Hoover 2 Hruska 1 Johnsor,L. B.r 2 Kennedy, J. F., 2, 10 Labouchere 4 Landers1 Ledru-Rollin 1 Lincoln,A., 9 Long 1-2 Longworth 2 Louis XIV 6 MacArthur, D., 3 Macaulay5 Menzies tr" Mirabeau2 Muggeridge1 Murphy 1 Newton 8 Nixon l-2 North 2 Paderewski 5 Pitt 2 Reagan 214 Reed2 Roche2 Seward1 Sheridan, R. 8., 14 Simon, J. A., 1 Stevens 2
Stevenson, A. E.r 2, 5r 7

playwrights(continued) Shaw,G. 8., 21 4-s Sheridatr, R. 8., 12 Skinner,C. O., 1 Stoppard 1 Terry 2 Voltaire 14 pleading Aristippus 2 poetry Boileau4 Browning, R., 7 Jerrold 1 S., 20 Johnson, Porson4 Sinvell,8., 1 Sinvell,G.r 2 Tennyson3 poets.Seealsowriters Acton 1 Auden 2 Austin, A., 1 Babbage 1 Bahr 1 Bridges2 Denham1 Dryden 1, 3 Eliot, T. S., l-2r 4-s Euripides1 Frost 1, 3 Keats 1 Levant 4 LiBol Lowell, A., 4 Milton 1 Noailles 1 Pope,Alexander,3 Rivarol 2 Robinson,E. A., t-2 Rossetti2 Russell, G. W., l-z Salisbu ry I 1 Spenser Swinburne1 Thomas,E., 1 Voltaire 5, 7 Waller 1 Whitman 1 Wilde 8 poisoning AlexanderIII 5 Baker,J., 2 e, A., 2 Christi Nero 1 police Arnould 2 Harriman 2 La Guardia4 Nixon 5

Talleyrand 7 Thomas,N., I Thoreau3 Townshendl Trudeau,P. E., I Truman 5 Ifilkes 1 I7ilson, V., 2 politics Btilow 1 Cicero2 Galbraith 1 MacDonald1 Roosevelt, F. D.r 2 Thomas, N., 34 I[rilson,H., z polls Gallup I pollution \il7hewell1 polo Alfonso XIil 1 polygamy Parker,Q., 1 pomposity Berners 2 Churchill,W., 25 EdwardVII 10 Labouchere 2 Lincoln,A., 34 Louis XIV 9 Reed 1 r07ordsworth L popes John XXIII 4 JuliusIII 1 LeoXl populariry Beethoven1 Chaplin 1 Dickens2 Kennedy, J. F., 12 Mayer 5 rU7ilkes 3 portraits Blake,W., 3 Buddha1 1 C6zanne Churchill,W., 44 Cromwell 1 Elizabeth the Queen Mother 9 Emerson5 Firbank1 Gainsborough 1 Gandhi,M., 4 Gladstone 3 Haydn 4 Henry VIII 2

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Hogarth L 'W'., Holmes,O. Jt., 5 Isabey1 John,A., 1 3, 5 James, Joyce, John, 2 Joyce, Kneller 2 Koppay 1 Lang L LiebermannL Michel angelo2 Moln6r 7 Niarchos 1, Noailles 1. 2-3 Picasso Plotinus1 Prokofiev1 Rigaud 1 Sargent, J. S., 24 Shaw,G. B., 23-24 2 Siddons 3 Thackeray Tintoretto 1 Titian 1 \Ufashington 9 rUfhistler 5 postal service Faulkner1 postscripts Selwyn5 posture Gordon,J. 8., 1 potatoes Liliencron L poverty Alcott, A. B., 1 Bach,J. S., 1 Balzac2, 5 Caligula3 France3 Picon 1 Rochef ort 2 Shuter1 Twain 2 Power Chesterton'/,2 2 Themistocles practicaljokes Barrie 5 Benchley l, L5 Bogart L Buckland2 Calverl ey 1 Cuvier L ElizabethII 1 Eug6nieL Gide I Franklin 8 Giotto 2 5 Greeley GreeneL Halifax, E., 1 Hill, J., 1 Hitchcock 8 Hook 1 Huston 1. Ikku 1 Lutyens2 Marx, G., 12 Partridge1 Piccard1 Porson1. Ross5, 8 Smith,S.,2 Thurber 3 Troy L von NeumannL practicality CocteauL Cromwell 3 Edison,T., 5 Gore-BoothL GravesL practice L Paderewski pragmatism Dewey,J., 1 praise Constable1.-2 KlempererL Lewis,M. G., 1. Olivier L S., 4 Rogers, 2 Sarasate Sitwell,E., 3 Turner 5 Voltaire 10 prayer Aubign6 1" Baylis2 Bion 1 Cinque 1 L. B.r 7 JohnsoD, 'S7., 1 Lawrence, Lincoln,A., t9 3 Spellman preaching 8 Lamb, Charles, Seefate predestination. predictability Haldane2 predictions Aidan 1 2 Blake,'W., D., L Campbell, Gallup 1 Morgar, J. P., Sr., 5 ge l-2 Partrid

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3 Stengel Thurber 9 pregnancy Arnould 4 Aubernon3 Coke L Collins,J., 1 Marie Antoinette3 prefudice Belloc 1. ray 2 Thacke premonitions Lincoln,A., 37 prescriptions Brahms9 3 Lamb, Charles, Macready1 the Presidency, Coolidge12,24 GeorgeV 3 Seealso elections, presidents. politicians Adams, J., l-2 an 2 Buchan Carter 3 Cleveland1 2I Coolidge 4 Eisenhower Fillmore L Garfield L Hoover 5 Kennedyr l. F., 3, 7, t4 Lincoln,A., 13r 32 Longworth L Lowell, Abbott Lawrence,1 McKinley 1 Nixon 34,9 3 Oppenheimer 4 Reagan Reed2 F. D., 1, 5-6 Roosevelt, Ruth L L Seward 'W. H., 2 Taftr Thomas,N., L L, 5 Truman'$(/., 3 Wilson, press,the. Seealso journalists Bertrand,5 Russell, pride MichelangeloL Plato 3 1 Tecumseh priorities Stein7 prison Asoka L Curley 1

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Goethe 1 Gershwin,G., 2 psychology Beerbohm3 Galen 1 public appearances Coolidge23 public image Gandhi, M., 1,3 publicity Bernha rdt 7 publishers Balzac 3 Burke 1 Byron 4 Campbell, T., L Churchill,W., n Cocteau5 Coleridge1 Fielding L Hugo 1 S.,3 Johnson, Milton 1 publishing Carnegie 4 punctuality Churchill,W., 4 Lamb, Charles, 2 Palmerston 1 punctuation Fiske 1 Maria Fddorovna1 Sheridar,R. B., LL punishment Augustus6 Bottomley 2 Chapman, John, I Chapman, John Jay, I Cibber 1 FredericktU7illiam |2 Hatto 1 Milton 2 Raleigh5 Russell, J., 3 Stubbs, J., 'Webster, 1 D., 3 Xerxes2 puns Addison 1 Arlen 2 Asquith,M., 1 Auber 3 BaconL Booth,J. B.r 2 Brown 2 Bruce 1 Caesar 5 Cardozo L Carolineof Brunswick2 Chase, S. P., L

pnsoners Bader 1

De valera 3

Maria Fdorovna1 FrederickII 2, 4 Gandhi, I., I Gordon, G., 1 Richard I 1 ' voltair. 1 !(lilde 14 prisonersof war Perot 1 Stuart 1 privacy Barrie7 Emerson4 John XXIII 7 Steinbeck, J., 1 Stimson1 prizes.Seealso awards;honors; Nobel Prize Greene2 problems_ _ Lloyd George3 procrastination Augustine1 Falla 1 productivity DionysiusII 1 professional status Ross5 promiscuity.Seealso infideliry; love affairs; mistresses; sex Arnould 4 Lenclos1, 4 Musset 1 Parker,D., 8, 12 promises Coppde1 Reynolds1 promotions FrancisI 1 Magruder 1 Ross2 prompters Rehan1 pronunciation Bottomley 1 propaganda Halsey1 prophecy Agrippina 1 Aidan 1 Caesar3 Cardano 1 Collins, M., 1. Constantine(the Great) | Croesus1 Emerson9

fi:ili ry 1
Kailio 1 Louis XI 1 Newton 3, 9 rUyells 2 ProPosltlons Nabokov 2 palewski1 Rachel1 Susann 2 Thurber 5 propriety Bin-durionl Edward VII 3 parker, D., 4 Trollop, 4., I Twain-18 Ustinov 1 proselytizing Chesterfie-ld3 prosperity Hicht 1 prostitutes Baldwin,S., 3 Bolingbrokel Chaliipin 1 Freud 1 Guimond 1 Hundley 3 Labouchere l Mitford, N., I 'W.r Mizner, s Parker,D., 9 PerelmanL Ross1 Russell, Bill, 1 !7ilde 16 protocol Busby 1 Edward VII 10 Kingsale1 Laird 1 provincialism AdenauerL Thoreau5 prudery Blume 1 S., 4 Johnson, Khrushchev 6 Parker,D., 14 Sterne1 Trollop, F., I pseudonyms Sharp 1 psychiatrists Williams 1 psychoanalysis

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Choate 7 Churchill, W., 39 Clark 1 Clive 1 Coke 1 Coward 8 Cooper,D., 2 Dennis 2 Disraeli 5 Erskine,T., 2 Galbraith 1 GeorgeV 5 Gielgud 2 Gilbert, Itr. S., 1, 7-8 Gogarty L Grote 1. Gunther l-2 Holmes,J.r 2 Huxley, A.r 2 Jerrold 2 Kac 1 Kelvin 2, 5 T Lamb, Charlesr Lear 4 Lillie 2 Lincoln, A., 3 Mahafty 2 Mencken2 Milnes 1 Morley, C., 1 Napier 1 Norbury 3 Norton L Palmerston2 Parker,D., 7, 9 Perelman1 2 Rabelais Riley 1 Rodgers2 F. D., 3 Roosevelt, G. W., 1 Russell, 2 Shaftesbury 3 Shakespeare Shaw,l.r Z Trilling L Whistler 18 Zangwill 3-4 Quakers Cope 1 Dalton 1 Fox, G., 1 Waln L quarrels.Seearguments quotations Porson2 races Simenon1 racism Ashe 1 Blake,E., 1 Disraeli 1 Douglass1 Dumas pire 3 Everett 1 Horne 1 2 Jessel Kennedy, J. F., 11 Lee, R. E., 5 Louis, I.r 2 Seward1 Smith, 8., 1 Truth 1 Virchow 2 radio Kaufman 22 rain 1 Sainte-Beuve Twain 9 rank Napoleonl7 Paley 1 rationalism Paine2 Talleyrand12 rationalists Pompadour1 reading CervantesSaavedra1 Cooper,Gary, 2 Franklin 7 Stout 1 Walpole 2 real estate Astor, I.r 2 Hecht 1 realism Goldsmith 1 John, A., 1 O'Toole 1 Ouida 1 Picasso 5 Renoir 1 Trollope,A.r 2 reassurance Columbus1 Twain 9 rebukes Apelles2 Rivarol 1 recitals Rosenthal1 recklessness Caesar4 recluses Barnesl-z recognition.Seealso identi-

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

fication; mistaken identity Braque 1 Cagney1 Copland 1 Drew L Gosse1 Irving L Lillie 8 Marx, G.r 7 Michelangelo1 Mitchell 1 Vhitelaw 1. recommendations I7ashington 10 reconciliations Byrd 1 FrederickII 7 2 Gainsborough Lonsdale1 Parker,D., 5 Sudermann1 Victoria 7 records Hundley 2 recovery Brownitg, E. 8., 1 Reagan3 references Woollcott 2 refusals Porson5 3 Sherman regulations ElizabethII 2 rehearsals Barrie 4 Blech 1 Chaliapin2 'trl Coward 2-3r 8, 4 Handel 2, Massenet1. D., 11 Parker, Toscanini1-2 r 7-8, l0 Tree 5 Voltaire 2 reigns (terms of office) Cicero 3 reincarnation $thagoras 1 rejections Alembert 1 Diogenes 7 Dickens4 Disraeli 8 Glyn 1 Palewski1 Shaw,G. 8., 2 Ifilson, E., 1

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

740
rejoinders Churchill, W., 7 relatives. See alsofamily Elman 3 John XXIII 2 L. 8., d Johnsotr, Molnilr 7 relaxation Eliot, T. S., 6 relics Beuno 1 religion Adler 1 Allen, E., 1 Belloc 1 Bufruel1 Churchill,'Sf.,rc Coleridge 4 Cranmer I Cyrus of Panopolisl Darrow 3 Davies,E., 1 Detourbey1 Diderot 1 Doyle 2 Elisaberh1 Erasmus 1 Fields5 Gide 1 Henry lV 2 Hill, R., 1 Hitchcock 7 Huxley, T. H., 1 T. J.r 2 Jacksotr, Kennedy, J. F., 7 Kinglake 1 Lincoln,A., 9 Laplacel-2 Melbourne 2-3 Montecuccoli 1 Mugnier 1 Paine2 Servetus1 Shaftesbury 1 Smith,A. E., 1 Talleyrand3, 12 Warburton 1 Waugh 5 Wilkes 2 Zangwill 2 religiousbelief Rubinstein,Arthur, 3 Talleyrand12 religiousconversion Asoka 1 Christina 1 Chwolson 1 Eddy 1 Gregory I 1 Henry IV z Mugnier 3 remedies Trollope 4 Twain 22 remorse Cromwell 4 renovations Thurber 1 repertoire Thibaud 1 reporters. Seejournalists reprisals Thalbergl reputation' Arnould 2 Caesar 2 Cicero 4 Goldwyn 15 A., 1, s Jacksofl, Kreisler3 Per6n 1 Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1, Rodgers1 T7hitman 1 resemblance, physical.Seealso appearance; mistaken identity 'W., Churchill, 3L Twain 20 resignations Lloyd George5 respect Burns3 responsibility Truman 5 rest NapoleonI 3 restaurants. Seealso dinners; food Berra 2 Feydeau 2 Garland2 Pinza 1 Shaw,I., 1 r6sum6s Campbell, Mrs. P., 2 retirement Coolidge25 Copeland 2 Walpole,R., 2 retorts Thurlow L retribution Divine 2 Quin 1 revenge
Fleetwood Hook 1 1

Ibn Saud1 Michelangelo 3 Narv6ez1 Nilsson 1 PeterI 2 Sedley1 Toscanini5 Vanderbilt,C., 1 Voltaire 3 I7elles 1 reverence Paderewski 3 revolutionaries Breshkovskaya I Engels1 Frankli n 3, 9 Paine1 Talleyrand 14 Trotsky 1 revolutions Franklin 5 Lear 3 rewards Xerxes2 Rhodesscholars Rhodes4 rings Raglan1 risks Rabi 1 Fitzger ald, 2., I rivalry Bankhead 10 Carnegie 2 Godowskv 1 Goodm"rr,B., 1. Greenwood1" Heifetz 3 Hemingway6 Karsavina1 LehmannL Napoleon,J. C. P., 1 NiarchosL Pachmann 2 Scott 1 rivals Apelles1 Arlen 1 Brancusi 1 Charles V 1 Clay,H.r 2 Gibbon2 Goldwyn 8, 12 Lincoln,A., 1,1 Malibran 1 Mayer 2 Merman 1 Meyerbeer2 Nesbit 1

741
al 2 Rosenth Rossini 1 Bill, 2 Russell, R. 8.r 72 Sheridao, Sudermann1 Zeuxis 1 rivers FrederickVilliam IV 1 1 Queensberry Richelieu2 ry. Seetheft/ robbers/robbe thieves robots Reuther 1 romance Baylis 1 Gershwin,G., 3 Rome Nero 2 roosters Guitry, L., 3 royalties Jones,James,1 royalty Albert 3 Alexander III 7 Angoulme 1 Armstrong, L., 2 Sir T., 9 Beecham, Bernadotte 1 Bismarck6 Buckingham1 Caroline of Ansbach 1 Charles,Princer2 CharlesI (Austria) 1 CharlesII 6 CharlesX 1 CunninghameGraham 1 Disraeli5 Edward VII 2, 4-5, 10 Edward VIII 2-3 Eleanor of Aquitaine 1 ElizabethI 1 ElizabethII 34 Elizabeththe QueenMother 2-5,7-8 Euclid 1 Farouk I 1 FerdinandI (Austria) | Fontenelle1 FrancisJosephl-2 Franklin 9 Georgell l-2 GeorgeV1,3,9 Howard, C., 1 Kingsale1 l*ar I Leopold II I-2 LouisXIV t-2,8 Mansart 1 Marlborough,J. S. C., 1 Mtry, QueenConsort, l-z Metternich,P., 1 Napoleon,E., 1. OscarII 1 Patti L Philip, Prince,14 Philip II 3 Philip V 1 Quin 1 4 Shakespeare Victorit l, 3, 6-7, 12, 14 \WilliamI (Prussia) 2 I7oollcott 5 Rubicon River Caesar3 rudeness AbernethyI-2 Barrie 7 Belloc3 Bernard 9 Churchill,R. F. E. S., 3 Goering 1 I7augh 2, 5 rumors Davis 1 Russell,Bertrand, 5 runners Nurmi 1 Russia Pushkin1 Russianlanguage Romanoff 2 Russians Tennyson7 ruthlessness NapoleonI 11 Sabbath,the Jacksor,T. J.r 2 sabotage Brooks,M., 1 sacraments Mugnier 2 sacrifice Edward VII 2 Grassini1 Louis XVI 3 Nelson 1 Oates 1 Sidney1 sailing Knox-Johnston1 sailors Gilbert, H., 1 Marshall, H., 1 Nelson 1 saints

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Beuno 1 du Deffand 1 Francisof Assisi1 . See alsofees salaries Alcott, A. B., 1 Alexander III 3 Anderson2 Borge 3 Churchill, If., 8 Coward 2 Dale 1 Doyle 1 Fontanne1" Garbo 1 Georgelll 2 Gershwin,G., 5 Goldwyn 2l Gomez 1 Henry, O.r Z Howells 2 Kennedy, J. F., 14 Lamar L Martin L Marx, G., 1 Northcliffe 1 Rochefoft2 Bill, 2 Russell, Ruth 1 Sargent, J. S., 1 Talleyrand2 Thurber 2 I7ilder 4 Ziegfeld 1 salvation Allen, E., 1 SalvationArmy 7 Bankhead Samaritans Varah 1 sanatoriums Parker,D.r 2l sanity MuggeridgeL sarcasm Mrs. P., 3 Campbell, Cowl 1 Ellenborough1 scenery Knox, R., 2 Mahler 1 schedules Ford, J., 1 scholars.Seealso academics AvempaceI Gaisford 1 Goethe5 Housman L Lewis, C. S., 2 Mahaffy I

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

742
Ghiberti 1 Giorgione I Guggenheim1 Renoir214 sea Napoleon,E., 1 seatravel Philip, Prince,l seances Vanderbilt,C., 3 seasickness Cardozo 1 Cooper,D., 2 secretaries La Guardia2 Napoleon I 5 secretiveness Mehmed II 1 secrets Wellington 2 security Anders on 2 Thoreau3 seduction Dali 1 Divine 1 Dumas fils I Holliday 1 Inchbald 1 Korda 4 Scholl3 Shakespeare 2 self-defense Cope 1 self-importance Acheson3 Ali 2-3 Chateaubriand 1 Comte L Goering 1 Haley 1 2 Joyce,James, Labouchere 2, 4 Lunt 1 Nero 3 Northcote 1 Oldfield 1 Paley1 self-improvement Holmes,O. W., Ir.r 9 self-knowledge de Gaulle4 selflessness Confucius2 Oates1 self-ridicule Churchill,W., 15 semantics Tooke 1 senility Swift 5 sensadonalism Hearst 1 Troy 1 serendipiry Haydn 1 Poussin 1 Sargent, J. S., 4 sermons Allen, E., I Bossuet 1 Canning2 Coolidge1 Cyrus of Panopolis1 Maury 1 Parr 2 Smith,S., 9 Spurge on Z Swift 4 Iilesley 2 servants Carter 2 Chamberlain, A.,2 Churchill,R. F. E. S., 2 Churchill,W., 40 Diogenes 3 Dunsay1 Fairbanks2 Hoffmann 1 Lawrence, T. E., 3 Marx, G., 1 Morgatr,J. P., Jr., 3 Offenbach1 Rubinstein, Anton, 1 Sheridar,R. 8., 4 Szell1 sex.Seealso infideliry; love affairs; lovers;mistresses; prostitutes AlexanderVI 1 Ali s Arnould 4 Aumale5 Balzac 6 Bernhardt5 Bolingbroke1 Carter 1 Charlesll 4 Clark, A. C., 1 Coolidge9 Coward 10 De Valera 1 Dumasfils 4 Fields1 Foote 5 Freud 1 Holliday 1 Hugo 2

scholar s (continued) Pope,Alexander,2 Porson2, 5 Routh 2-3 Whewell 2 schools . Seealso education; universities T^f!, H. D., I sclenusts Archimedes1-2 Avery 1 Baeyer1 Baker, I(/., 1 Beerbohm 5 Bohr 1 Chaplin I Cockcroft 1 Cuvier 1 Darwin, C., I Eddington 1 Einstein2-5, 8-10, t2-13, 1 5 - 1 5 ,l g Faraday1 Fermi 1 Fleming,A., 1 Huxley, T. H., 1 Kekul6von StradonitzI Kelwin 2-3 Kirchoff I Laplace l-2 Lavoisier1 Millikan 1 Newtotr 1, 416-7r 9,ll-12 Oppenheimer 3 Pringle 1 Schcinbein 1 Smith,S., 1.1 Szent-Gyorgi1 Whitehead2 Scotland Johnsor,S., 11-13 Scottish,the Wilkes 4 screenwriters Cohn 3 scripts Evans,E., 5 Tracy 1 sculptors Donatello 1 Emerson5 Epstein 1 Faillidres1 Gandhi,M., 4 Michelangelo 14, 4,7 Renoir 214 Taft, L., 1 sculptu rc. Seealso statues Garrick 1

743
24 Johnson,5., Landers3 Langtry 1 Lenclosl, 4 Lyndhurst 1 Mathilde 2 Musset L Nabokov 2 D., 1, 7-8, t2 Parker, PetroniusL Raleigh4 RichelieuL Thurber 5 Victoria 8 8 Voltaire 'West, M., 1 I7ilson, Harol d, 2 sex appeal Hayes,H.r 2 sex education Aubernon3 sex symbols Hayworth 1 sexism Astor, N., 1 Atkinson 1 Sir T., 3 Beecham, Bronte 2 ElizabethII 2 Fuseli 1 Hellman 1 JamesI 3 S., 18 Johnson, Labouchere 3 Livermore 1 Luce,C. 8., 2 Stanton,E. C., 1 shabbiness Chanel 2 Coleridge6 shadows Brown, J., 1 Gosse1 sharing AlexanderIII 9 Confucius2 Sidney1 shaving Macaulay 4 Piccard1 Shaw,G. 8., 13 shellshock Patton 1 ships Lawrence, J., 1 William II 1 shipwreck Gilbert, H., 1 shoes Chanel2 Julius III 1 Nilsson 4 shyness Addison 1 Durante L Firbank 1 Twain 11 Wodehouse2 signs Parker,D.r 2 Wilkes 3 silence Chesterton5 Copeland 1 Emerson3 Macaulay 3 Marceau 1 simplicity Laughton2 ana I Santay sincerity Foch 5 Mirabeau 3 sinecures Robinson, E. A.r 2 singers/singing. Seealso composers;conductors; muslclans Beecham, Sir T., 14, 16 Bing 1 Caruso34 Chaliapin1, 3 Cherubini2 Durante 4 Faur6 1 Fitzgerald, E., 1 Foote 3 Galiani 1 Galli-Curci 1 Gatti-C asazzaI Grassini1 Handel 2-3 Haydn 4 Horne L 4 Joyce,James, Lehmann1. McCormack 1. Martinelli 1 Melba 2 Merrill l-2 Molndr 8 Nilsson 14 Pinza1 Rossini34 Sargent, M, 2 Schumann-Heink 2 Sills1 Sinatra1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Tetrazzini 1 ToscanimT Truman 2 single-mindedness Einstein13 Gauss2 Nabokov 1 Olivier 2 Pope,Arthur Upham, 1 Bertrand,2 Russell, Morel 1 sins Coolidge 1 Luther 1 Teresaof Avila 1 skeptics,religious du Deffand 1 Grant,U. S., 10 Kinglake 1 slavery Anthony 1 Aristippus 1 Carlyle 3 Henson 1 Phillips I-z T., 1 Sedgwick, Seward1 Stowe l-2 sleep Albert 1 Buffalmacco1 Clurman 2 De Moivre 1 Devonshire1 Hitchcock 4 Molndr 1 Sandburg1 I7arner 3 sleeping Rubinstein, Anton, 2 Schnabel 3 Wesley2 slogans Reagan1 slowness Shaw,I., 1 slums Churchill, lUf.,3 smoking Arnim 1 Baum 1. Beecham, Sir T., 5 Bernhardt9 Borge 1 Brahms10 De Valera 3 Edison, T., 2 Edward VII 3 Freud2

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

744
smokin g (continued) Haeseler 1 Hammeft4 Martinelli 1, Metternich 1 Molndr 8 Napoleon III 1 Raleigh3 Steinm etz I Tennyson9 Twain 17 Victoria 10 smugglers, smuggling Arno 1 Marx, C.r 2 snails Shaw,I., 1 snakes Chapman,John, l-z snobbery Belmont 1 Bing 7 Bowen,L., I Brummell 8 Cartland 1 Churchill, W., 3 Coote 1 Curran 3 Dumas pire 3 Duveen I Gardner,I. 5.r 2, 4 Gilbert, W. S., 7 Iphicrates1 Jefferson,T., 4 Josephll 2 Lawrence, T. 8., 3 Lewis, C. S., 3 Lieven 1 Lincoln,A., 15 Marx, G., 4 Poole 1 Pope,Alexander,3 Sackville-West 1 Schnab el 2 Selwyn4 Tennyson 1 Thackeray2 Thiers 1 Vesey 1 West, R., 3 Whistler 3 snoring Duse2 snubs Blessington1 Brummell 3 Byron 3 Churchill, W., 2 Cicero 2 Dumasfils I FerdinandI 1 Firbank 2 Kemble,F., 1 Lillie 3 Marx, G.r 7 Picasso 14 Selwyn4 Shaw,G. 8., 2 Taylor, L., I \trTellington 10 'W., lfilson, s socialclass Angoul6me1 social-climbing Edward VII 2 Gilbert,S7.5.,7 socialism Carnegie 3 Shaw,G. 8., 5 soldiers Augustus 2 Brooks,M., L Butler,B. F., 2 Cambridge1 Cambronne1 Eisenhower 1 Frederick II 1, 5, 8 Gordon,J. 8., 1 Grant, LJ.S., 2 Grenfell 1 Hay I Hemingway 5 Henri IV 1 T. J., 3 Jackson, Landers3 Lincoln,A., l, l4r 2l-23, 29 Louis,J. E., 2 MacArthur, D., 1 Menshikov 1 Montague 1 NapoleonI 11 Patton 1 Peard 1 Pitt 1 Ross2 Sedgwick, J., 1 Sidney1 Stark 1 Summerall1 SuvorovL Thackeray3 Thomas,E., 1 Washington3, 6-7 I7ellington 4-5 Wolfe 1 solicitation Erskine,T., 1 songs Grant,U. S., l1 Lincoln,A., 17 RichardI 1 sophistication Cooper,Gary, I SouthPole Oates1 speakers Churchill,W., 32 Mosley 1 speeches Berra4 Burke 2, 4 Chamberlain, J., l, CharlesIl 7 Chesterton3 Choate 3-4 Churchill,W., 15,32 Clay, H., 1 Coolidge 8, 19 de Gaulle3 Demosthenes 2 Depew 1 De Val era2 Disraeli2 Evarts L Foote L Garfield 1 Heggen1 Henri IV 4 Herbert 1 Kelland 1 MacDonald 1 Madison 1 Newton 8 Nixon lr 4 Pope,Arthur Upham, 1 Reagan 4 Roosevelt, T., 5 Sheen 3 Sheridan, R. 8., 9-10 Smith,F. 8., 5 Swanson1 Untermeyer1 I7ise 1 speechwriters Johnsor,L. 8., 5 spelling FavrasL Fielding2 Rachel2 Sellers 2 spiders Robert I 1 spiderwebs Fleming,I., 1 spies/spying Esposito1

745
Hale 1 Kissinger1 Onassis1 spiritualism Doyle 24 Vanderbilt, C., 3 Yeats L spiritualists Mayo I sPontanelty Smith, F. E., 5 spoonerisms Spoonerl, 4 sports.See alsoathletes;sqecific sports Eliot, E. V., 2 Shaw,G. 8., 15 sportsmanship Budge 1 Caligula 1 Hobbs 1 Louis XIV 7 sportswriters Rice 1 Ruth 4 spring ana 2 Santay stagefright Casals2 Cibber 1 Heggen1 stamp collecting GeorgeV 2 stamps CharlesFrancisJosePh1 stargazing Thales3 starvation Hemingway 1 en.Seealso diPlomats; statesm politicians;presidents Gandhi,M., 1, 3 Talleyrand 14-15 . Seealso sculptures statues Cato 3 Donatello Hideyoshi1 Julius II 1 W., 2 Rogers, Rossini10 Wellington 11 steadfastness Elizabeththe Queen Mother 4 stock market Morgan, J. P., Sr., 5 Massachusetts Stockbridge, C. M., 1 Sedgwick, stockbrokers Travers 2 stoicism Epictetus1 stomachache Ruth 2 storms Caesar4 Oates1 storytellers Melville 1 Twain 13 strategy Shaw,V., 1 Smith,F. E., 1 streakers Niven 1 strife Azeglio 1 strikes Davis 1 Goldberg2 Gould 1 Welles2 stubbornness 9 Clernenceau Garbo 1 students Atkinson 1 Bunsen1 Cohen 1 GeorgeIII 4 Harris, G., 1 Hutchins 3 W., 1 James, T., 9 Jefferson, Kac 1 Livermore L Mascagni1 1 Oppenheimer Piatigorsky 1 Plato 1 Reagan1 Rossini5 Thurlow L Truman 6 2 Untermeyer Ustinov 2 stunts Brodie,S., 1 stutterers Bennett,A., 3 Carleton 1 Darwin, E., 1 Davies,M., 1 317 Lamb, Charles, Maxwell 1 submarines Fulton 1 success

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Bialik 1 Darrow 5 Getty 1 Hagen 1 Hammerstein1 Hoover 1 Liberace1 Muir 1 Rutherford 1 Stoppard1 successors T., 3 Jefferson, suckers Coolidge14 SuezCanal Khrushchev2 suffragists.Seealso women's rights 3 Labouchere suicide Antisthenes2 Arria 1 Augustus6 G., 1 Boulangr, Cardano 1 Charondas1 Chatterton 1 Coward 9 Hannibal I Lenclos4 Nero 3 Nerval 2 Vatel 1 Wells 3 I7ylie 1 superstition Bohr 1 Brownirg, R., 3 Campbell,D., 1 Columbus3 Frith 1 Mazarin 2 Pericles1 Thales 1 tUfilliamI L surrender Allen, E.r 2 Cambronne1 Grant, IJ. S., 3 McAuliffe I Pltain 2 suspense Hitchcock 5 swearing Churchill, \Uf.,45 Greeley3 Nixon 3 Truman 3 Twain 5

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

746
Macaulay3 Maury 1 Parker,D., 5 Raynal 1 Roosevelt, T., 5 Saarinen1 Swanson1 Swift 2 tanks Churchill, W., 5 tantrums Nilsson 1 Tarzan 'l7eissmuller l-2 taste Howells 1 tattoos Bernadotte1 tax collectors Voltaire 13 taxes Victor AmadeusII Baldwin 1 Buchwald I Capone1 Devonshire 2 Faraday1 Godiva 1 Kemble,C., I Louis XIV 5 NapoleonIII 1 Rogers,'W., 4 Ross8 Swift 5 Vespasian 2 taxis Burnett 1 Cobb 2 Heyerdahl 1 Huxley, T. H.r 2 Lillie 1 tea Asquith,H., 1 teachers Aquinas 1 Barr 1 Boulangr, N., 1 Busby1 Grange2 Humphrey 2 W., 2 James, KasnerL Kelvin 1, 5 Kieran 1 Knox, R., 3 Leschetizky1 Michelet i Pater 2 Piatigorsky 1 Rossini5 Santay ana2 Schnabel 1 Smith,F. E., L Untermeyer2 teaching Heifetz 5 Steinbeck 3 technology Ruskin 3 teeth Cope 1 teetotalers. Seealsodrinkirg; drunkenness Bryan 1 Churchill,W., 45 Cook 1 Croll 1 Hayes, R. B., I Whistler 7 telegrams Elman 2 Morse L Sellers 1 Thibaud 2 Thomson,G., 1 tU7augh 3 telephones Degas1 Levant 2 Parker,D., 14 telescopes GeorgeIII 1 Kaufman 2l television Silverman1 television personality Carson2 temper
Beethoven 4 Bolt 2 Campbell, Mrs. Landor 1 Macmillan 1 temperance. See teetotalers tempo Rosenthal l, 4 Ten Commandments

Swedenborgians Paine2 swimming Shelley, P. B., 2 Taft 3 symbols,phallic Freud2 symbols,power Cromwell 2 symbols,religious Francisof Assisi 1 sympathy 'W.r z James, Kaufman2l syntheticfibers Philip, Prince,5 taciturnity Abernethy 5 Coolidge2, 4, 6-7, 10,22 Dirichlet 1 MeurisseL tact Boileau4 Corot L Disraeli9-10 Einstein6 Elizabeththe Queen Mother 5 GeorgeM IsabeyI Marquand 3 Mastroianni I Per6n 1 Sitrvell, 8.,2 Sinvell , G.,2 Tree 5 tactlessness Garner 1 Khrushchev 2 talent Bernstein, H., I Boulangr, N., 1 Gershwin,G., 4 Stravinsky5 talkativeness Archelaus1 Babbage 2 Bankhead 4 Bismarck5 Boussuet 1 Chesterton3 Clay, H., 1 Coleridge3 de Gaulle 3 De Valera4 Einstein1 Guitry, L., 1 Lamb, Charles,8

Belloc2 Campbell,Mrs. Clemenceau 8 Twain 5 territories Sherman1. Texas Sheridar,P. tennis Budge1 Kiner 1

747
thanks Thorpe 1 theater . Seealso actors and acrehearsals tresses; Alexander,George,L Allais 2 Barrie 5 Baylis2 Bing 8 Brady 1 29 Churchill,'W., Cohan 1 Cooper,Gladys,1 Courtneidge1 Coward 1-3, 5-8, ll Daudet 1 Dennis L Elizabeththe Queen Mother 7 Gilbert,W. S., 9 Kaufman7-8 Kemble, J. P., 1 Klopfer 1 O'Neill 2 Parker,D., 11 Rehan1 Reinhardt 1 Rodgers2 Shaw,G. 8., 5 Terry I-2 Ustinov L ITilde 5 theaters Bancro ft I theatricalproducersand directors Cohan 1 Hawtrey 1 Tree 1, 5 theft/thieves Benny5 Bing 7 Cane L Churchill, If., 33 Duval 1 Freud 3 threats Columbus3 Grey 2 Handel 3 Henry, C., 1 Inge 1 Johnson,A., 1 Keppel L Marx, G., 10 Philip rl 2 Rogers , W., 2 Shaw, G.8.r 22 Vise 1 thunder Dennis1 tigers Confucius1 timing Goldberg2 tipping Harris, J., 1 KeynesL Levant 5 Rothschild1 Szell1 tips Alvanley 1 Bennett, J. G., 3 Butler,S., 1 titles AlengonL torrure PeterI 1 Seewigs toupees. tourists/tours Benchl ey 2 Cook 1 Coolidge6-7, 25 Kemble,F., 1 traffic Thomson,J., 1 Victoria t4 trains Churchill, W., 4 Grainger 1 Joad L T., Jr., 1 Roosevelt, traitors Fouchd2 Hughes 1 transcendentalists Peabody1 translations Aubign6 1. Eliot, J., 1 Este1 Pope,Alexander,l-z Thurber 5 travel Alexander,S., I Armstroog,N., 2 Columbus1 Cooper,Gary, L Moln6r 5 Thoreau 6
treason Beaumont 1 Gerard L Harrisofl, B. ("Signer"), 1 treaties Clemenceau 8 George V 5

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

Kallio 1 trees Faulkn er 4 trials Burke 4 Carolineof Brunswick2 Darrow 3 JamesI 1. Julian L Landru 1 Mansfield 1 Philip II 1 W., 1 Rockefeller, awards; tributes. See als;o honors Cushman1 Gehrig2 Holmes,O. W., Sr.,4 Rossetti2 Rossini1.0 Toscanini5 tricks Cole 1. Edison2 Gilbert,V. S., 2 L. B., 5 Johnsoo, Korda 4 Pope,Alexander,L Putnam L 2 Queensberry Anton, 2 Rubinstein, Scott 1 Talleyrand1 Thales4 trivia Ford, H., 4 trophies Frisco2 trust AlexanderIII 5 Fagiuoli 1 Perugino1 rrurh 12 Newton 'sfashington 1 nvins Piccard 1 tyrants Asoka 1 1 Seneca ugliness Churchill, \Uf.,38 Conti 1 Giotto 3 HeideggerL Hogarth 1 North 1

INDEX

OF SUBJECTS

748
Kennedy, I. F., 1 Lee, R. E., 1. Lloyd,G.,2 Lobengula1 Lowell, Amy, 4 NapoleonI 9 NapoleonIII 3 Nelson 5 Patton 1 Peard 1 Philip,J. W., I Picasso 5 Pyrrhus 1 Rivera 1 Sherman1 ThomaS, E., 7 Ifashington 2 Waugh 4 IToollcott L War of the Worlds Barrymore,J., 8 warnings Caesar 9 Servetus1 watches Tree 2 ITaterloo Montgomery,B. L., 3 wealth. Seealso millionaires Astor, J., 1 Bryan 3 Getty 2 Hearst 2 Hemingway4 Kennedy, J. F., 4 Morgatr,J. P., Jr., I Muir 1 Plato 3 Rothschild1 Sargent, J. S., 1 Thales2 Travers 2 Vanderbilt,W. Woollcott 4 weapons Adams,A. A., Charondas1 weather Eden,'W., 1 Lawrence,T. E.r 4 Partridge2 Sheridar,R. Smith,S., 5 Swift 5 weddings Skinner,O., whispering Pater 2 White House

underdogs Richard I 2 Chamberlain, W., 1 victory understatement Caesar5 Ruth 2 Forrest 1. undertakers Fraguier I Arne L Henry IV 1 underwear Ibrahim 1 Faisal1 John III Sobieski1 Lowell, Amy, 3 Kiner 1 Montagu 1 NapoleonI 10 unemployment Pyrrhus 1 Giraudoux 1 villains unions Lytton I Cohan 2 virtues rU(elles 2 Joyce, '!fest, James,I United Nations M., I Austin, V., 2 visions SpaakL Blake,W., 3 universities. Seealso academics; Constantine(the Great) 1 scholars; students Swedenborg 1 Eliot, C. V., 1 voters Hutchins 2 Fox, C. J., 5-5 unpopularity Stevenson, A. 8., 2 Van Buren 1. ITilkes 1 upstaging voyeurs Cowl 1 Godiva 1 urination 'Sf., Churchill, 27,37 wagers.Seebets urns wages.Seesalaries Lewis,S., 5 waiting Einstein3 vacations Goldberg1 Brandeis1 Thalbergl-2 Lloyd George3 ITales value S., 9 Johnson, Picasso 3,7-9 waiters vanity. Seeconceit;selfShaw,I., I importance war, warfare.Seealso battles; vegetarians military leaders;military Barrie 8 strategy;soldiers Murray, Gilbert, 1" BosquetL 2 Schweitzer Capa 1 Shaw,G. 8., 7-8 Clemen ceau7 Singer1 Cunard 1 Stravinsky 13 Drake l-2 vengeance Farragut 1 Gould 2 Foch 3 Venice Forgy 1 Benchl ey 2 Forrest 1 verbosi ty . Seetalkativeness FrancisII 1 veterinarians FrederickII 1, 3, 5 Otto L Gabin 1 vice presidents' Garrod 1. Clay, H., 5 Goethe 1 T., 4 Grant, U. S., 3-6 Jefferson, Marshall, T. R., 2 Grey 1 T., 2 Roosevelt, Halsey 1 vices Hearst 1 NapoleonIII 1 Holmes,O.

749
Kaufman 17 widowers William III 1 widows Alexandra 1 Benny 5 Parker,D., 17 Richelieu3 wigs Morley, C., 1 will power Marquis 1 wills (inheritlnces) Fugger1 Lenclos5 Menotti 1 3 Rabelais Rhodes4 Rubinstein,Arthur, 1 Sheridar,R. B., 13 1 Sophocles R. L., I Stevenson, wine Brahms5 Brillat-Savarin1. 1 Charlemagne Cicero L Cook L Evarts 2 Fugger 1 9 Joyce,James, Kelly, M., 1 Langrishe1 Sheridar,R. 8., 1 wishes F. D., 1 Roosevelt, wit Churchill, W., 3, 8 Foote 2 Rogers,S., 2 Wordsworth 3 witches Mansfield 1 Parker,D., L0 witnesses Smith,F. E., 4 wives. Seealso marriage Allen, E., 3 Arria 1 Beecham, Sir T., 5 Beckett 2 Butler, S., 5 Byrd 1 Cadbury | Carolineof Brunswick3-4 Catherineof Aragon 1" Darwin, C., 2 de Gaulle 1 Dewey,Mrs. T. 8., L EinsteinL1-12, 17 Gelon 1 GeorgeIII 3 GeorgeV 8 2 Gladstone Goldwyn 22 Guitry, S., L-2 Heine 2 Holmes,F. D, 1-3 Kreisler 4 Lardner 3 Levant4 Mankiewicz 3 Parker,Q., 1 1 Somerset 2 Susann Truman 3 Twain 5 Victoria 9 Iferfel 1 women Twain 21 women'srights. Seealso feminism Anthony 1 Churchill, W., 7 Labouchere3 words Greeley4 Shaw,G. 8., 2 Thurber 4 Tosti 1 Webster,N., 1 work. Seealso employment; manual labor Brandeis1 Darrow 5 Emerson 1, Evans,A., 1 Gershwin,G., 3 Harriman 1 L. B., 3 Johnsotr, Kennedl, J. F., 4 Napoleon I 3 wrinkles Elizabeththe Queen Mother 9 writers. Seealso iournalists; playwrights; poets Abercrombie1 Adams,F. P., 4 Addison 2 Allen, F., 4 Anderson2 Arlen 1 Aym6 1 Balzac3, 5-7 Beckett l-2 Behan2

rNDEX OF SUBJECTS

Belloc 4 Benchley15 Bennett,A., l-z d 12 Bernar Berra 3 Boileau l-z Bront 2 Browning, R., 1 Buckley2 Butler, S., 2 Byron 4 Cabell 1 Campbell,T., I-2 Carlyle 1 Carroll, J., 1 Carroll, L., 1 Chaplin 3 Cocteau4-5 Cohn 3 Coleridge2 Colette 1 Congreve 1 Coolidge7 Cooper, Garyr 2 Courteline 1 Dana 1 Dickens 5 Disraeli12 Dodge 1 Dreiser 1 Dumas pire 2 Eliot, T. S., 3-8 Epstein 1 Erskine,J., 1 Evans,E., 3 Faulkner2-3, 5 Fielding 1 Fiagerald, F. S., 2 Flaubert 1 Foote 4 Gardner,E. S., 1 Gibbon 3 Glyn 1 Goethe 5 Goldsmith 1 Goldwyn6,9, 15, 18 Gray 1 Greene1 Hardy 1 Heggen 1 Hemingway 1-3 Holmes,O. T(/.,Jr.r4 Howells 1-2 Hugo 1, 5 Hume L Inge 1 H., 4 James, W., 34 James, Jerrold 1

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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Russell, Bertrand,4 Salinger1 Scarron l-z Scott 3 Sharp1 Sheen1 Sickert3 Simenon2 Sirwell,E., 1 Smith,L. P., L Spillane1 Stal2 Stafford 1 Stein3 Stowe I-2 Talleyrand6 Thackeray3 Thoreau2 Thurber 2 Trollope, A., 3 Twain 12 I(harton 1 \Vilson, E., 1 IToollcott 3 Wordsworth 2 yachts D., 2 Cooper, Morgatr,J. P., Jr., L Travers2 Yale O'Hara L Parker,D.r 7 Yalta conference Churchill, Ul., 22 Yiddish Einstein10 Yom Kippur Silverman1. youth AlexanderVI 1 Holmes,O. V., Jr., 8 zoology Cuvier 1. zoos Darwin, C., 3

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