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...Miss Bourke-White, expert camerawoman traveling free-lance with Governmental blessing, took 800 photographs in Soviet Russia. Artistically in love with her work, she took great pains, gave none. Happy posers said "Thank you" when her shutter clicked; one woman even wept for joy. The Russians "consider the artist an important factor in the Five-Year Plan, and the photographer the artist of the Machine Age." They appreciated Bourke-White. Starting as their photographer she soon became their comrade...
...this romantic picture of the North American savage we have to thank a boy who entered Yale at the age of fourteen in the year 1803. James Fennimore Cooper is particularly remembered as the man who conceived "Leatherstocking Tales". Little boys run wildly whooping about the backyard waving wooden tomahawks and loudly protesting to an imperious voice from the kitchen window, "But mama, we're only burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish...
Stocks rose sharply on Australian exchanges at news of the election. In London the orthodox thing to say became, "Thank goodness, they've come to their senses down under. Now the Aussies will pitch Labor out just as we did, and a jolly good...
...discussions they reasoned thus: Dr. Engle was studying pituitary hormones, which can stimulate early sex maturity. Dr. Jungeblut was studying infantile paralysis, which usually occurs before sex maturity. Might there be some connection between pituitary hormones and infantile paralysis? Why not combine their studies? The monkeys at least would thank them. Jeremiah Milbank's International Committee for the Study of Infantile Paralysis furnished the money, the researchers researched jointly...
...been the cause of my eyesight failing at such a critical moment? Is it liable to happen again without the aid of the 18th Amendment? I saw the old Constitution outside of Annapolis the other day. She looked quite innocent of having had any part in diabolic Amendments. Well, thank the Lord, that part is over with. Now for the next. Let's hope it will happen in waters too deep for the 18th Amendment-fish traps. . . . Well, here's how to you and all. Hope this is safer stuff. The other bottle went overboard, so the fish...