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...spritely Keatsian reminiscences by Brian O'Nolan in your Aug. 23 issue recall that in his youth Keats took such a passionate interest in baseball he became regarded as a sage of the diamond, was often called upon to settle disputed matches...
...Yutang wrote this book after Frank lin Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid wall of the Washington blockade of supplies for China." This book is a small but potent charge...
Ezra Pound, 56, the sharp-bearded, incoherent, choleric poet's poet from Idaho, persistent expatriate (since 1908), sage of Rapallo and champion of Fascism, was indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury for treason...
...users, the drug has many names-many of them evasive. Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics...
Governor John "Doubleyou" Bricker, the Sage of the Midwest, has come out with a statement that is a masterpiece of political sophistry. "America is not, has never been and will never be an isolationist nation." Bricker, whose bid for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination has the cager support of that old internationalist, Senator Robert A. Taft, thus neatly evaded committing himself on the question of isolationism by refusing to recognize its existence. An observer unblinded by the necessities of political conciliation might perceive that isolationism was, is now, and will be a matter of burning moment for a great sector...