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Elisabet was sustained by an appealing cast of minor eccentrics. She would never admit that she had married Edmund Montgomery, bastard of a Scottish baron, lifelong searcher for the mainspring of life in the pullulations of protoplasm. All his life he called her "Miss Ney." In his silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...
...Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking men from more theoretical pursuits, and the best teachers are being drained off to Washington. In the humanities, the earnest searcher after truth finds himself handicapped not only by a diminished Faculty, but by a troublesome conscience. He, like his fellows, feels that war is taking the meaning from his studies and that he might do better with a sword than...
Amateurs also watch for novae-stars which inexplicably burst into brilliance, then subside. If a nova searcher sees a strange new star, he telegraphs its location to a major observatory...
...Chocorua, N.H., five-year-old Pam, dressed only in light overalls and sneakers, wandered off, got lost. For eight days her father, aided by CCC boys, State police, soldiers from Fort Devens, bloodhounds, airplanes, searched for her. It rained. At night there was frost. Late one afternoon, a searcher heard a weak little voice call "Hi, hi." There was Pam, sitting on the bank of a brook, a couple of miles from the spot where she had last been seen. Said she: "I have been lost since Sunday and I have drunk from the brook and everything...
...back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best parts of his somewhat flamboyantly written book (Sample: "The days streaked by like frightened parrots") report how the searcher succeeded, how he won the confidence of the suspicious brujos (witch men), how he learned the secret ingredients, the magic ritual and recipe for mixing and brewing curare...