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Died. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British character actor and comedian, who so delighted London as George Bernard Shaw's favorite lead (Heartbreak House, The Apple Cart) that he was knighted in 1934, after which he crossed the Atlantic to keep them chuckling on Broadway (30 productions) and in the movie houses as one of Hollywood's Typical Britishers, bald pate, frosty visage, deadpan drollery and all; of emphysema; in Manhattan...
...Nonetheless, he knows that out West, it ain't spurs that go jingle, jangle, jingle, it's those silver dollars the mountain folk use as a status symbol to stun the visitors. Caving in to Western mining-state demands, Congress approved funds to mint 45 million new cart wheels, as recommended by neatly lassoed Dillon, who called them "a traditional medium of exchange in many Western states." So they are, in one vital area of commerce: there's no earthly way a greenback will mediate with a Las Vegas one-armed bandit...
...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case there is much to be said on both sides...
...York, cabs and cart-pushers, messengers and millionaires, trucks and trams and lady shoppers dash madly for the intersection when an opening appears. Usually they make it, sometimes they don't. But that's precisely the point. In Washington you know you're going to make it, so why even try? It's more exciting to pilot a paddle-boat on the Tidal Basin and watch the cherry trees...
...CART AND THE HORSE by Louis Kronenberger. 212 pages. Knopf...