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THERE IS A DRAGON IN MY BED (by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Irene Haas; Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is the kind of book that separates the privileged U child from the underprivileged non-U brat. It is bilingual, featuring first-reader French for cosmopolitan moppets. Two tykes, a boy and a girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh...
...Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) Jigme Dorji Wangchuk...
...little more waspishly, Walker took up the chronic British complaint that British collectors and museums do not have the cash to compete with the U.S. "If money is so scarce," said Walker, "why do you buy in Switzerland a picture like the Lanskeronski St. George and the Dragon, whose only connection with English culture, so far as I can make out, is that St. George is the patron saint of England? We were anxious to purchase this picture ourselves, but it was too expensive for us. It is an indication of the immense riches you can draw upon when...
...Using his attorney general's stationery, Patterson sent out a letter to the Ku Klux Klan mailing list, which declared: "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. Shelton, of ours, in Tuscaloosa, has suggested that I ask for your support." When it turned out that Shelton was the Grand Dragon of the state Ku Klux Klan, Patterson professed astonishment. Said the Advertiser: "If this innocent, this Fearless Fosdick, is so dense that he doesn't know that he is riding around with a Klan chief, how in the world can such a man investigate and bring to book...
...from a single, perfect sandalwood tree, awaiting a propitious time for cremation. Last week the time came. Military planes, which might usefully have airdropped munitions to isolated garrisons, were commandeered to fly in tons of food for expected funeral guests. The King's coffin was placed on a dragon-headed carriage and, to the music of gongs and cymbals, borne to the cremation site, a soccer field outside town that had been piled high with sandal wood logs. Laotians reverently brought thousands of gifts to accompany "the King to nirvana, including a box of U.S. laundry detergent to keep...