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...used to it either. Wrote Lord Layton, chairman of London's Liberal News Chronicle, while head of the industry's newsprint rationing committee: "With international responsibilities second to none, our newspapers are among the smallest in the world. . . . You cannot build . . . a peaceful world on ignorance or breed world citizens if they have no access to knowledge...
...actress thus bracketed last week was Celia Johnson, star of such British films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
...Master Breed. A geneticist once wrote of Kleberg: "He works in the medium of heredity with the steady hand and eye of a man at a lathe turning out a part of a machine." His first great feat was the breeding of the King Ranch's Santa Gertrudis cattle, the only new breed of U.S. cattle that has had any commercial value. Economic necessity mothered the new breed...
...Kleberg decided to try Brahman bulls, which thrive on grass feeding and India's killing heat. Other cattlemen shook their heads. Brahmans had not worked out too well for other breeders. But Kleberg bred the Brahmans and Shorthorns together till he evolved what he wanted, a cross-breed bull named Monkey...
Monkey performed so well at siring a new breed that now all the cattle on the ranch are descended from him. The Santa Gertrudis breed, which is now widely sought wherever there is year-round grass feeding, has one great moneymaking virtue: it is hardier and grows heavier on grass feeding than any other...