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...their candidate was going to be, the Democrats picked portly William Grader, 45, owner of a fish-processing plant and sometime political handyman for Congressman Miller. Grader was little known among the voters, and Republicans did as little as possible to call him to their attention. Democrats tried to concoct an issue by calling Clausen "Dodging Don," offering a $100 prize to anyone who could get him on the same platform with Grader...
...look at a king; so I suppose that one must concede to Mr. John Barton the right to concoct an evening of 35 monarchal snippets from 1000 years of English history (he calls them "an entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England,...men and women like you and me.") Fortunately, the maxim does not require us (you and me, that is to say) to look at Mr. Barton and his fellows as they debase the monarchs to make them palatable to a democratic audience by smirking, giggling, and vulgarly overacting...
...this elite suffer from pellagra. Infant mortality up to two years of age runs 58%, one of the world's worst. In all Yemen there are only three hospitals, two high schools and a primitive military academy, but the six-man Yemenite Foreign Office used to concoct reports to the U.N. of totally imaginary hospitals and schools, including a College of Aviation...
Deeper than Woman. Ardrey is a playwright who went to Africa in 1955 to concoct magazine articles and lick his wounds after a Broadway flop (his Shadow of Heroes, a play about the Hungarian Rebellion, opened to mixed reviews last week). He was fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed...
...authoritatively as its predecessors have swarmed into Washington." Most captious of the reviewers was Judith Crist of the Herald-Tribune, who complained that the musical reminded her of a Hasty Pudding show. The perspicacious Miss Crist then added, "Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo, two Harvard men.... did indeed concoct the Hasty adding...