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...earth, with well-meaning officials as their natural enemies. The officials are the book's runts and spivs and riffraff-the ones who have fared best under the Welfare State. Old Cock pegs them down (to quote the most printable of his memorable vocabulary) as bowler-hatted, bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take to wearing bowlers before we can get a bit of simple cooperation from our fellowman, who shall not be spat on from...
...Baptist minister for 46 years," he wrote. "I have prayed with scores of people in their last hours. I have turned from the deathbed to comfort hundreds of others . . . Death isn't a pleasant assignment . . . The question was hurled at me: Will my life in these few weeks bean example of what I have preached? Does death look different, now that it has come so near to me, than it looked when I was counseling with others? ... Is the counsel I gave to others adequate for myself now that I face the possibility of an early death...
...when Norma Jeane was twelve and getting sick and tired of her "county dresses" and the boys who called her "Norma Jeane the Human Bean," she borrowed a blue sweater from a girl friend. "When I walked into the class room," she says, "the boys suddenly began screaming and groaning and throwing themselves on the floor." In the schoolyard at lunchtime the swains stood around her three deep, and every afternoon after that there were a dozen bikes stacked along the curb outside her house. The neighbors were soon in a snit about "that little bitch." Norma Jeane...
...Will Win in '56?" will be the topic of discussion when news analyst Louis Bean, Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, and Samuel A. Stouffer professor of Sociology, meet at the Ford Hall Forum Sunday night...
...Institute's attitude toward its women is mainly one of acceptance, according to Ruth L. Bean, Dean of Women. It doesn't exclude them, she says, but it makes not special effort to advertise the fact that it will accept them. Why do they come? Mostly because of a dedication to science or alumni pressures but sometimes because of the ratio...