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Approachable, colloquial and jolly, Dr. Condon is that delight of newsmen- a scientist who used to be a newsman himself. Born in New Mexico 37 years ago, son of a railroad civil engineer, he spent his childhood roving all over the West with his father. After a year at the University of California, he dropped out and went to work for an Oakland paper. But he soon decided that journalism was not his line, returned to the university and graduated with highest honors. He likes reading science books of all kinds, band music, complicated ice-cream sodas. His thick black...
...Sullens, editor of the Jackson, Miss. Daily News, refused to be downcast, summed up a lot of Southern feeling: "No form of weather is more fascinating than a heavy snowstorm," he wrote. "To be moving about in the open when the great fat flakes are falling is something to delight the soul. ... A beautiful woman snugly clad on a snowy day is a delight to tired eyes-more attractive by far than any nymph in a bathing suit. The wind whips color into her cheeks and tingling air lends sparkling brilliance to her eyes...
...pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...
...sick in my solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence). Dead & gone are many a writer, artist, anarchist, psychiatrist, birth-controller who enlivened that salon -Big Bill Haywood, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Brisbane, Lincoln Steffens, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them magnetized, fascinated, charmed, as men will be by the allure of a woman's lively calling essence" - nothing now remains to mark the spot except a gaping excavation...
Otherwise the Government sounded positively elated. The Stalin birthday celebrations (TIME, Jan. 1) had been successful beyond expectation, and there was cause for new delight in the annual elections of delegates to the regional Soviets. On every side official candidates were achieving what Pravda called "a brilliant victory"-on ballots on which there were no opposition candidates. On ships of the Baltic Fleet, said a Moscow broadcaster, harmonicas played ceaselessly as the crews eagerly voted "for the invincible Stalinist bloc." He told how airmen fresh from bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer...