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British Composer Benjamin Britten was commissioned to write a coronation opera. His subject: the affairs of Elizabeth I and the Ear! of Essex...
...world now has about 8,500 species of birds and 25,500 species of feather-eating lice. Nearly every bird has a few lice, and some have thousands. Benjamin Franklin, the Misses Rothschild and Clay report, regretted the choice of the bald eagle as the emblem of America "as he is generally poor and often very lousy." As soon as infant birds climb out of their eggs, the waiting lice set upon them, chewing their feathers and nibbling their skins. They crawl into the throat pouches of pelicans and cormorants. One species feeds exclusively on the tears of swifts...
Died. Frances Benjamin Johnston, 88, onetime news photographer who had an inside track to the White House because of her friendship with Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; in New Orleans. With a boxlike camera given to her by George Eastman in 1887, she snapped such shots as McKinley on the eve of his assassination and Admiral Dewey after Manila...
...short bits of poetry, David Chandler's Explorator and Benjamin LaFarge's In Memory, are competent and interesting. Chandler's poem is the more colorful of the two. The only really inept piece in the issue is George Kelly's Liptight My Thoughts, two pages of senile mutterings...
...have a scientific basis for doing so. They tend to intellectualize faults and vainly try to use reason to bring obedience. This is worse than simply laying down the law to small fry: "You can't do this because I don't like it." ¶ Baby Expert Benjamin Spock went further: there should be a clear distinction between fitting people for parenthood and teaching them about psychiatry and analysis. Knowing about the causes of insecurity does not make family life easier. As a matter of fact, said Spock, it is harder for psychiatrists than ordinary mortals to bring...