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...Dewey (he hates to be called "Dr. Dewey") starts his day at 7:30 a.m., ends it at 9 p.m. He shaves himself with an electric razor, breakfasts with his physicist daughter before she goes to work, then starts tapping away on a typewriter battered by years of hunt-&-peck. Magazine articles and essays still roll out of the machine in the inimitably cluttered prose that has marked Dewey since his first published work...
...Dewey did not fall very far. He took a crackerbox credo that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and made a philosophical system out of it. Nothing in science, politics or religion, he argued, must be accepted on say-so. Like the hunt-&-peck philosopher who put it on paper, Dewey's "pragmatism" was a hunt-&-peck philosophy...
Charles Russell Peck...
...twelve, the Quints are rosily healthy, haven't had even a cold in three years. They still study under private governesses (nuns) in their 19-room, nine-bath Callander, Ont. mansion, have about average intelligence. Their accomplishments: they peck out a fair tune on their three pianos, chirp a pleasing soprano, and sketch a promising freehand...
Spellbound (Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov; TIME...