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Congratulations on the cleverest cover background design that has appeared on TIME in many months. The contrast of the dark skin of Jackie Robinson and the white surfaces of the baseballs is only a starting point for Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's ingenious arrangement of the red sewing-lines on the baseballs to lead the eye in & out and roundabout the picture area, and to suggest a celestial dream world of baseball in which the happy First Baseman grins his delight...
...into operation for their payment. Erring students, tottering on the verge of probation, find all their past cuts carefully noted at the Dean's Office. And, when crafty Jawn Harvard is proctoring, his eyes are sharper than a hawk's from centuries of administering examinations to some of the cleverest brains America has produced...
...feeling for the beautiful Roxane in another man's behalf, Actor ( Ferrer was often not romantic enough. But as the hot-blooded, proud-plumed Gascon who overworked his sword, he had the right brag and strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology as well as its hogshead of sentiment...
Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...
...Animalist Manifesto. The next three months were feverish with secret political activity. The work of indoctrination and organizing fell to the pigs, who were the cleverest of the farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side...