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...Drama is an art form, not a slice of life. It is intended to give you an emotion and an aesthetic experience the same as any other art form. The idea of producing real behavior on the stage is harmful to the aesthetic qualities of drama...
...Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying on if his full program went through. Otherwise his resignation would probably bring down the government...
...publisher that "there is something about a Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
Three Heads to Order. To make a two-headed monster, Dr. Wolff lets the embryo develop normally for two or three days. Then he makes a microscopic slice in the part that will grow into the chick's head. Three-headed monsters can be made in this way. So can four-legged or four-winged chicks...
...enough. He established (1947) the $160 million Cullen Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, gave $25 million in all to the University of Houston, along with 7,000 acres of oil lands, made it almost singlehandedly the nation's fastest-growing. Once, witnessing Houston's football team slice up rival Baylor University, 37-7, he exuberantly wrote out a $2,250,000 check, charitably consoled Baylor with $1,000,000 a week later. Politically conservative, he hated "creeping socialism," admired extravagantly the late Joe McCarthy. Full of crotchets, he once told his children: "Use your money to make...