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...same vein, the septuagenarian publisher described his experiences with such authors as Thomas Mann and Willa Cather. He told of a college professor who wrote about a Montana river that was "like a navel cord" and "waterways that really brought forth men and women." He talked about Kahill Gibran, who wrote The Prophet, Knopf's best-selling book, which only began to drop in sales when Knopf started advertising...
This Ripleyesque state of affairs was not, alas, an act of God. A Times censor, presumably convinced that bare belly-buttons are titillating in Los Angeles, painted the offending detail out of the photograph. Surely, censorship in California has reached the end of its umbilical cord...
Even if de Gaulle does not succeed in cutting the umbilical-cord to the north in a single blow, he is likely to give it a couple of hard twists. Regardless of what economic aid he can offer, the General is a sympathetic figure to Latin Americans of almost every political hue. His military uniform, and the order and prosperity he has brought to France appeal to the rightists. The grant of Algerian independence and his neutralist foreign policy appeal heavily to the left. Most of all, he has led a small country in dignified and reasonable resistance...
...tires thump after standing for a period, leading drivers to believe that something is wrong with the car when they start rolling. But the nylon industry is trying to work out the thump, and the eight U.S. rayon makers (biggest: American Viscose) do not expect to hold off nylon cord forever...
...swimming pool, he failed to respond to the forced family pleasantries. After Joe had changed clothes, Teddy and Eunice Shriver joined their father in his bedroom. When he asked to turn on the television set, Teddy stalled, said it did not work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told his father about Jack's death. Joe is a tough old bird, in the best sense of the phrase; he understood the news, took it without visibly flinching...