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...Ohio town until authorities ministered to an unhappy mule lying in the street. One of her adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings make quite a mess. Says Mme. Hempel: "I am quite, quite foolish about animals...
...darkens or dims U.S. cities, their onetime incandescence will be replaced more & more by the ghostly luminescence of pigments which give off light in the dark. Today luminescent pigments are being produced in the U.S. at 500 times their rate before the war. Their makers, well nigh luminescent with delight, hope to produce before year's end 100 times as much as they...
...James Joyce the sense that his book had a reader. Mr. Levin's volume on Joyce is designed to be read along with Joyce's works. On Joyce's powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
...third important bogey is partly dispelled by the pamphlet described above; it is the desperate error of treading on clouds; of planning with a dreamer's misty brain for the sheer delight of planning. In peeling off the layers of what-has-been-done-before they must not forget that history is the best teacher; they must go deep into basic reasons for failure of world organization and economic systems; they must examine the generalized Eight Points and such detailed plans as are put forward in high places; they must examine such statements, too, as the one thrown...
...larger than light-microscopes can do) by R.C.A.'s new electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940), insect innards were revealed in photographs exhibited at the A.A.A.S. meeting by Zoologist Albert Glenn Richards Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania, and R.C.A.'s Thomas F. Anderson. Bugmen buzzed with delight at the spectacle of mosquitoes' windpipes, a butterfly's scale, a roach's cuticle...