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...license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
Unreconverted. In Seattle, Sailor Thomas Washington climbed atop a five-story hotel, tore bricks out of the chimney, heaved them down at pedestrians, after 30 minutes of action (no casualties) was captured, explained that he was "sore at civilians...
...footnotes require more work and research than the stories they hang from, and it is a rare footnote that doesn't produce some interesting and unexpected result. For instance, Managing Editor T. S. Matthews dropped a footnote - definitely on the learned side - from a Science story about the chimney swift. The footnote was a stanza from a poem about a curlew, by W. B. Yeats. A researcher who was dispatched to the public library to find and check the verse, being in no mood to go through all of Yeats' works, finally telephoned the English department of Columbia...
Sleeping Turrets. Most startling feature was in the chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...