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Wars would be cheaper if we bred soldiers, didn't pay them, and exterminated the "veterans" after each conflict. Then you Poor Foolish Civilians could keep all the money...
East of the Iron Curtain last week, the odds were that the average German horseplayer would have a hard time getting up enough cash to get down a bet. But well-heeled horseplayers were as necessary as well-bred horses if the "International" race meeting in Berlin's Soviet zone was to pay off, so East Berlin bureaucrats "cordially invited" their prosperous West German cousins...
MADAME DE, by Louise de Vilmorin, translated by Duff Cooper (54 pp.; Messner; $2.50), is a literary visit from the frail, salon-bred French writer whose fans think that she may succeed to Colette's place as first lady of French letters. Author de Vilmorin has a wonderful flair for wacky as well as genuine elegance, and writes with a kind of passionate superficiality rarely attempted since the courtly novel died with the French court. Madame De, already known to some U.S. moviegoers in an excellent screen version (TIME, July 26), is a high-society triangle in which...
...Finely Bred. In Phenix City, Ala., when three bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
...Court has recognized, implementation of its ruling will be difficult. The mentality that bred segregation has not yet died. For legal decisions cannot eliminate apathetic, even hostile state legislatures. And they can only slowly conquer the fear that creates men like Benner C. Turner...