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...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...
...even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed...
...only unexpected delight in "Sitting Pretty" is the appearance of Clifton Webb. He turns up by some mistake as a resident baby-sitter, and in the end he is more or less running the happily married couple and their three little boys. Having harvested something of a general education, Webb is on hand to avert every family disaster in the accepted Jeevesian fashion. Only once does his wisdom and teaching fail: that is when one of the little boys gets a bellyache, and this heartrending dialogue ensues: "Well, why don't you stand on your head like Mr. Belvedere said...
...Guatemala City, President Juan José Arévalo watched with delight. Congress had been growing restive, and people had criticized his suspension of civil liberties. Now, as the result of British action, they backed him as never before...
...political activities of Henry Wallace frighten the Democratic bosses, delight the Republicans, and frequently puzzle both. To Author Dwight Macdonald they are the natural antics of a split persornality who has gained a confused following by making a cult of confusion. Macdonald's subtitle is The Man and the Myth, and of the two he finds the myth more interesting and more important...