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...Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat, he was greeted by nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking in the cold. Gallantly, the general bent like a great, gawky crane to accept a bouquet of flowers. "Merci,'' he said. "Thank you." And hours later, as he finished a speech at the Civic Auditorium, the visitor was still stirred with emotion. He spread his arms and shouted "Vive Chicago!'' - a temporary geographical lapse that his translator promptly straightened...
...latest Peterson publishing venture had its origins in a bad case of frustration. Though Texans were confident that they had the most, the biggest and the rarest North American birds, with the whooping crane ready to whoop agreement each fall, they felt neglected during the last quarter-century, when bird watching in the U.S. developed from a risible oddity to an often rugged sport. The trouble was an embarrassment of riches. A Yankee or Floridian could count on identifying any bird he saw with nothing more cumbersome than his binoculars and a single pocket volume, Peterson's Eastern Field...
...ROBERT CRANE Ojai, Calif...
...little of the melodrama customary in books about adolescence. There is no Wolfeian confluence of the literary and the pituitary-the youthful poet growing an inch a month on a diet of a book a day. The author is no more sentimental or romantic about his hero than Stephen Crane was about the protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage. The books are similar in kind and (to a considerable extent) in quality: Author Crane's young soldier had to endure the discovery of fear, and Author Knowles's schoolboy must face the discovery of hatred-a bitter...
MANAGEMENT CHANGE is expected at Brown Co., a major New England paper and pulp maker, whose earnings have been falling. Thomas Mellon Evans, who took over Chicago's Crane Co. (TIME, May 11), has acquired an important stock interest in Brown...