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Author Guthne's mountain men-buffalo hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
...Britain might simply propose a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine- with herself as sole trustee, as in League days. (But all parties would then cry "Fake!" and Britain would be back where she started...
...years before he is allowed to practice. How many youngsters are ready to work as hard learning to draw? Yet drawing is as difficult and takes as long a training, and without it the painter is only the kind of practitioner that the doctor is who has but a fake degree. . . . Having learnt to draw, and then the relatively easier discipline of painting, let the artist express himself-if he can afford to wait so long...
...Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...
...well-made-up front page, sound news coverage and conscious inaccuracy were often neighbors. Says sports columnist Al Laney, a Heraldmau for ten years "We used to fake stories all the time. Often we used to make up the front page at 8 p.m. [it was a morning paper], before we knew what the news would be. Then we would just find stories to fit." Touring Americans, flattered to find their names in the society columns, often bought 50 or more copies to send to the folks back home...