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...hinted at his boredom when he told Connecticut's lame duck Senator Bill Benton that the presidential calendar was loaded with speaking engagements up to Jan. 20-and that he was sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused...
Though her pupils do not realize it, Miss Frances is forever lecturing them. She may teach them to count by showing them a movie of a mother duck ("Now how many babies does the mother have? One . . . two . . . three . . ."), or she may lecture them about putting away their toys. She also slips in tips on good manners, e.g., the telephone: "When the person at the other end wants to talk to someone, we call them, don't we? And we tell mother when we're going to make a call...
...John Williams' appointment pad in his dingy Millsboro office is a notation for Nov. 5: "Duck hunting-win or lose." If he wins, he plans to go right on watching the tax collectors, although he thinks it won't be necessary if Ike gets...
...boss of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.'s gun department, Charlie Hunter had long fretted over one big handicap for his customers. Since many of them had no opportunity to practice shooting under actual hunting conditions, they were likely to miss their duck or pheasant when the big chance came. What they really needed, he thought, was a place where they could practice under actual field conditions, thus make every shot count. By last week, after more than eleven years of on & off prodding, Marshall Field had decided Hunter was right. In a $100,000, 192-acre wooded...
Lacking a magic mirror, Dr. Kubie offers physicians a rough test for detecting psychiatric disturbances: "If a patient can use common-sense advice effectively, no more is needed, and our patient cannot have been very ill. When [commonsense advice] rolls off the proverbial duck's back, then that duck is ill, and needs technical help as early as it can be brought to bear...