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...life that his talent came from four sources, all in the family. His father, a furniture maker, gave him his sense of architecture. His uncle, a stonecutter, taught him the secrets of stone. His maternal grandfather, a weaver, gave him his sense of color, and his other grandfather, a shepherd, taught him his love of nature...
...evening, WOR gets farther out. At 11:15 Jean Shepherd comes on, a brilliant and undisciplined night sprite. A sort of oral abstract expressionist, Shepherd begins to talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind...
...impressive union of the church's worldwide hierarchy will not only serve to strengthen the bonds of unity in faith, worship and government, but will also be a means of attracting the attention of countless believers in Christ and move them to come round 'the Great Shepherd of the Flock...
...Junior") Holkar Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, 53, progressive-minded, Oxford-educated ruler of 1,500,000 worshipful subjects from 1926 until his pensioning-off by the Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education...
...SHEPHERD MEAD Weybridge, England...