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Everything from Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" to New Criticism and beer testimonials by famous authors receives the Wallach treatment, and usually emerges the better for it. Richard H. Ullman
...Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness is the holy challenge of the churches. How are the churches of America meeting...
...that explosion was 750 times as violent as a Hiroshima-type A-bomb (TIME, March 22), the radioactive contamination was not in proportion. Its effect at a distance was little, if at all, greater than that of earlier A-bomb tests. The Japanese fishermen who were burned by "death ash" were apparently victims of a local concentration of contaminated pulverized coral. Some of their burns, according to AEC Chairman Strauss, came from the chemical action of the ash. He probably meant that the coral, chiefly-calcium carbonate, had been turned by heat to quicklime, which sears human skin...
...being hauled in trucks, tank cars and barrels from more fortunate spots. The drought has even affected cities. Some residents of Oklahoma City are drilling wells in their yards as insurance against shortage, and many houses in St. Louis and Kansas City are settling and cracking in the ash-dry earth...
...serious contender for Kentucky Derby honors. Robert S. Lytle's Correlation, Champion Jockey Willie Shoemaker up, won the $146,250 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park by a length from the Woodvale Farm's favored (2-1) Goyamo, Eddie Arcaro up. ¶ In Manhattan, FBI-Men Horace Ash-enfelter, holder of the world indoor two-mile record, and Fred Wilt, who helped him set it (TIME, Feb. 22), hooked up in a two-mile duel in the final indoor track meet of the season. For the first time in 16 indoor tries against Wilt, Ashenfelter won. Time...