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...Bee Line. In Canton, N.Y., bumblebees came out before the blossoms because of the spring heat, buzz-boomed after shoppers who were carrying home fruit and vegetables...
...Schoolteacher Inez Thrift's experience in an aircraft factory: "After a few days I occasionally felt a oneness with my machine. . . . And the picking up and quarter-turning of each part fell into a rhythmic pattern. . . . "The bee's kiss now,' as I bore down firmly on the reamer. 'The moth's kiss now,' as I lightly burred the edges...
Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Bee-die") Smith, brainy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, received a letter from Miss Arda Knox, his old high-school mathematics teacher, who wrote: "I don't suppose you will even remember me. When I saw your picture in TIME (Jan. 1), I could see that little . . black head down over your algebra book." Beedle answered: "I am glad to say, in case you remember my long succession of 'Cs,' that I have a lot of very able young engineers. . . . To me you were always the one bright spot in the mathematics...
Typical numbers were the Tchaikovsky Romance, Vassilenko Oriental Dance, Borodin Chorus from Prince Igor, Liadov Russian Folk Songs and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee (with Ivanov playing the part of the Queen Bee). Liadov's simple Russian songs were melancholy and lovely even on these unsimple Russian machines...
Massachusetts had little doubt that the Governor had named a capable man. A son of onetime slaves, Bullock had been brought to Boston in 1889 when his parents fled a lynching bee. He got his LL.D. at Harvard, practiced law in Oklahoma, Illinois, Georgia. Returning to Boston, he served in various public offices, including the Parole Board, for 18 years...