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THE CITROËN 2CV, TWO ROAD TESTS, THREE DECADES APART
R&T’S ROAD TEST of the Citroën 2CV in its December 1955 issue began by quoting T.S. Eliot: “Do not ask, ‘What is it?’/ Let us go and make our visit.” Almost three decades later, the magazine...
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TIDBITS OF MEDIEVAL PAPER PART 1
TOM JOHNSON BEGINS his London Review of Books article with quite an amazing tidbit: “In 1391, 2.3 million sheets of paper arrived at the port of London: a page for every person in England.” All that...
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TIDBITS OF MEDIEVAL PAPER PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE GLEANED TIDBITS from Tom Johnson’s review of Orietta Da Rold’s Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fiction. Paper arrived big-time in England in the late 14th-century. Fifty years...
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A TIME WARP OF INTERIOR DECOR PART 1
MODERN INTERIORS TODAY AND TOMORROW takes on something of a time warp by way of this book’s year of publication, 1939. Speciality is noted as well in its subtitle: A Critical Analysis of Trends in...
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A TIME WARP OF INTERIOR DECOR PART 2
THERE’S A TIME WARP in discussing Emily Genauer’s Modern Interiors Today and Tomorrow, given that its “Tomorrow” began in the year 1939. No matter, though. Genauer’s account of interior decor is...
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OGDEN NASH’S ANIMAL PALS
RECENT RECITATION HERE OF “Feminine Rhymes” got me thinking about that master of light poetry, Ogden Nash. Which, in turn, encouraged me to reprise a collection of his works. The Best of Ogden Nash,...
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CELEBRATING TVR, GEORGIA KIMCHI, AND ECCENTRICITY IN GENERAL PART 1
CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR (my favorite Brit car magazine) reports “TVR has recently revealed that its forthcoming Griffith will have an electrically powered version. On top of that, the company is...
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CELEBRATING TVR, GEORGIA KIMCHI, AND ECCENTRICITY IN GENERAL PART 2
ECCENTRICITIES ARE PART of the English cottage industry tradition, with the TVR sports car an example. Here in Part 2, we continue examining the TVR Tasmin Convertible, as evaluated by R&T’s...
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AN AFFABLE AND PORTLY HOLMES PART 1
ILLUSTRATOR SIDNEY PAGET evidently knew the world’s first consulting detective very well. And for many of us, actor Basil Rathbone came most closely to Paget’s lean intensely hawkish image. However,...
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AN AFFABLE AND PORTLY HOLMES PART 2
ALL OF THIS STARTED with my viewing Reginald Owen in A Study in Scarlet, 1933 (when only a year before he had portrayed Watson). Today in Part 2, we find that a portly affable Owen portraying Holmes...
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