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...YOUNGEST CAMEL-Kay Boyle-Liffle, Brown...
...were in a great dither last week. Bang on top of promises of children's books from two super-highbrows, Spinster Gertrude Stein* and childless Thomas Stearns Eliot†, Expatriate Kay Boyle (three children), noted for her selfconsciously brilliant short stories, published her first fairy tale, The Youngest Camel...
Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...
...when the youngest camel was hog-tied out in the desert to undergo "the ordeal of loneliness" and get the bumptiousness bumped out of him, he discovered that mother was only soured. There really was a caravan of white camels and a new one joined it every time the youngest camel overcame a fresh temptation. His last temptation was to choose between a bag of ashes and a magic wishing necklace that would enable the youngest camel to wish his mother to have her own little oasis out in the desert. By choosing the necklace the sensible youngest camel broke...
...their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside edge of one skate to the inside edge of the other...