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Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," provided a varied diet of puns, epigrams, wry humor, and observations on man's minor imperfections and the minutiae of life. His sharp eye surveyed the theater: Helen Hayes, he observed, after seeing her coy performance in Caesar and Cleopatra, suffered from "fallen archness." He rewrote razor-blade ads ("Ask the man who hones one"), and punctured politicians ("When candidates appeal to 'Every-intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them"). He drafted fond couplets to his young sons...
Bulwarked by the Pyrenees, claiming blood descent from Caesar's conquering legions, culturally close to Southern France, the inhabitants of the province of Catalonia are a proud people who have long been a thorn to the enforced togetherness of Franco Spain. Against Catalan pride, Premier Franco has banned the use of Catalan dialect in newspapers, suppressed Catalan courses in schools. The failure of his efforts was dramatized last week in a threat to the very existence of the biggest and best newspaper in Spain, Barcelona's La Vanguardia Espa...
...poultry farm in the Middle East is Greenleaf Farm & Hatchery in Lebanon's flat, fertile valley of Bekaa, where Caesar's colonials once raised wheat. Hatched three years ago by husky Harvard ('48) Lawyer Robert Marshall Stevenson, 37. Greenleaf Farm delivers some 10,000 eggs and 1.500 chickens a day to Beirut alone, is a prime example of how well U.S. farming methods work in underdeveloped countries...
...that, at least, was the claim of a syndicate of Southern California entrepreneurs who last week announced plans for a Biblical version of Disneyland that should render much coin unto Caesar. Built in the shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
...Auxilium Latinum helps convince Editor Warsley, retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation...