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...publisher's natural for Christmas or any other season, this collection includes all the more favorable things that some 125 writers of prose and verse have had to say about mothers. It is jacketed, as inevitably as baldness, with Whistler's sour old dam. Considering its subject and its editor, The Mothers' Anthology will doubtless become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some...
...fans to chip in, buy the club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing water sports at newly opened TVA Chickamauga Dam, only seven miles outside the city, Chattanoogans deserted Engel Stadium in droves...
...international military jumping events always get top billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...
...working of natural economic laws in a system of free enterprise." That philosophy of "inaction and irresponsibility and indifference" he condemned, pointed to the new useful structures-"not just a school, perhaps a hospital, or a bridge, or a town hall, or a highway, or an airport, or a dam or a new waterwork or sewage disposal system"-which increased public wealth. Also, said he: "Into every project went money for wages...
...story. The reporters worked their way out of the room, filed back to their own car. The train chugged through the West Virginia mountains. One stop was made to take on ice and water. A crowd began to cheer, waved placards which read: "We want a Blue Stone Dam." The drawn shade of a window shot up, revealing Franklin Roosevelt, massive-grey-headed, smiling. The train moved...