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...Balloons and the Bicycle of a Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot: a cat without a home meets a dog without a bone. Both join a wise old owl and a friendly bear, and they discover...
...detail sometimes betrays him into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened...
Died. Dr. Henry Drury Hatfield, 87, onetime (1913-17) West Virginia Republican Governor and U.S. Senator (1928-34), a talented bone surgeon and cousin of the last Hatfield to feud with a McCoy, whose term in the Senate was marked by sharp volleys at F.D.R.'s New Deal Administration as a "brain trust endeavoring to force socialism upon the American people under the guise of industrial democracy"; in Huntington...
...with a couple of bakeries in his pocket." Weston never lost sight of his original goal-more outlets for Canadian wheat. Says he: "I'm not an intellectual, and my success has not been due to brilliance but to sticking to an idea like a dog to a bone...
Although President Kennedy has on occasion made polite gestures to Dr. Jagan and his government, no proposals regarding foreign aid or technical assistance have as yet emerged from State Department channels. In his interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...