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Coke And Connoisseurship

Evelyn Joll HENRY CLAY FRICK: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT by Martha Frick Symington Sanger Abbeville/John Murray, £35, pp. 599 enry Clay Frick was born in 1849 in Bucks County,......

Where Youth Grows Pale And Spectre-thin And Dies

Tony Gould THE WHITE DEATH: A HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS by Thomas Dormandy The Hambledon Press, £25, pp. 392 a rty years ago, when I was recovering from polio in a RAF......