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...kids, report the adults, really get into the news-to sniff, chew, scratch and crumple. Some are careful cover-to-cover "readers," while others digest only a few pages. One tot, we were informed, is not happy with anything but the current issue...
Instead of arguing-as had Marshall, Bradley and Collins-that bombing across the Yalu might bring World War III, Vandenberg was against it, for the moment at least, for his own reason: the job, he said, might chew up the Air Force and leave the U.S. "naked for several years to come" to Russian attack...
Though Poet Fry's new play may rank well below his own high par in the entertainment field, its lines contain plenty of material for concerned Christians to chew on. Sample: Thank God our time is now when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete...
...stories are written in a firm, never brilliant, always individual style. In the sudden bite of his insights, Storyteller Stern somewhat suggests Chekhov, but Chekhov with his back teeth pulled. He bites, but he doesn't chew his ideas as fine as they deserve...
...accepting the congratulations of U.S. science and industry, the National Bureau of Standards celebrated its 50th birthday last week. Without the bureau's busy, intelligent activities,U.S. nuts would not fit as many bolts so handily; houses would not be as warm; false teeth would not look or chew as well. In thousands of ways, both obvious and obscure, the bureau has increased the technical effectiveness of American living...