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Overstreet's remedies verge on the fatuous ("If we could grasp what other persons are saying ... the major hostilities of life would disappear") and the contradictory ("It is out of the vast amount of sheer unbalance in the economic life that the major hostilities of men have arisen...
...July 31, their friends below saw them disappear into the clouds that hid the sky-cutting edge of The Butcher...
Nevertheless, he still gets a slight tightening of the stomach before he goes into action. "It's like waiting for a funeral," he says. Once the meet begins, his nervous twinges disappear. He moves with disciplined relaxation; even at the finish line his face shows only concentration, with none of the agonized contortions of a last-ounce effort. As the competition gets keener, the only apparent effect is to key his reactions a bit tighter and sharpen his sense of timing. "When the pressure's on," he says, "I like it best." Between events, while other athletes trot...
...expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a single book about Zola was published in English. In the U.S., thanks to Actor Paul Muni's performance in a movie version of his life, Zola is stereotyped as an angry old Frenchman in a plug...
...cabinets. But Chicago's 57-year-old Arthur Keating solved the mystery long ago. As head of Ekco Products Co. and king of the U.S. kitchenware business, it is his job to make women want ever more household gimmicks. Keating estimates that nearly a third of existing gadgets disappear every year: they are lost in the garbage, carted away by children, or battered shapeless by amateur earthmovers in the backyard. Keating makes it his business to put the rest out of date...