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...tykes, a boy and a girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...
...foxholes, tents and barracks all over Europe. The G.I. could richly appreciate the saw-toothed irony of Mauldin's cartoons. In one, a dog-tired and shambling Joe guards the three equally exhausted Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup de grâce to a Jeep with a broken axle. Relaxed before battle, Willie angrily casts his eye on his buddy...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin would have had material for a lively series of news stories had there been a reporter present at the diploma riots. The May 6 issue devoted 22 inches to the history of "Latin at Harvard," then used a two-inch caption to mention a "'spontaneously assembled' group" the first night, which "re-formed Thursday night... and rather more Bursar's cards changed hands...
...original for the prints was drawn by George Haling, a graduate student in Fine Arts at Boston University. Dennis L. Milford '63, a Loweb House classics major, supplied a Latin caption engraved in diploma script...
...female hormone. Progesterone is secreted each month by the bearing follicles after ovulation has occurred. It passes through blood stream so as to effect the pituitary gland which in turn the production of F.S.H.--the so-called "follicle-stimulating Without F.S.H. the immature egg follicles cease growing. If caption occurs, the secretion of progesterone continues through out pregnancy...