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...TIME," a reader wrote last week, "is a very positive magazine." Being positive is a responsibility that TIME assumes as part of its aim to tell the reader what is so and to alert him to what is not so. Toward this end, TIME'S researchers, correspondents and editors dig as deep and roam as wide as they can to establish the facts-large and small-for every story. But as each issue is going to press, the editors always find that in the interest of accuracy and completeness and curiosity they want more details-very often small...
Trout & Needlepoint. In his rare moments of repose. Beedle Smith was a warm man of catholic tastes. He was an admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died...
...years, Robert Graves, the bent-nosed Jove of Majorca, lovingly revises the canon of his verse. The present edition retains most of the poems from the 1955 and earlier collections, adds some 50 new ones, and omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among the best...
...softhearted symphony conductor who spends much of his time kidnaping animals from research laboratories. In the end, Ninian returns to Silverwood, but the clocks have advanced too far, and he can no longer peer out at the world with the old "monastic calm." Nor, for that matter, can the reader...
...well of another sorrowing Jew. This time the theme is not nearly so fresh. But Sol Nazerman. the erudite Shylock of Harlem, is a creature of fascinating complexity. As the centerpiece of a flawed book, he is that literary rarity-the character whose sorrows seem as real as the reader...