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Recited Aaron Sharov glowingly to a Moscow meeting: "I ... a toolmaker of the seventh category . . . propose the candidacy of our beloved Comrade Stalin." The chairman intoned a Soviet litany: "[We] nominate the true continuer of the cause of Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the might of our he "land, the organizer and inspirer of the historic victory over Fascist Germany and Imperial Japan, the brilliant Army leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." The press pitched into the campaign. One day Pravda would report that American women were being forced into prostitution by unemployment, the next...
Dubbed the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" by their creator Mrs. Frances G. Lee of Littleton, New Hampshire, they correspond in their purpose to the Pitman forest models which show a New England hillside undergoing contour and seasonal changes. Each setting depicts the scene of the tragedy as it would appear just before the medical examiner or policeman might arrive. Accompanying the model is such information as a detective might have obtained by interrogation up to the time he walked in the door...
...enormous size of the character. . . ." But he constantly remembered Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." No mere butt, no mere burlesque, Richardson's fat knight is a restrained, highly intelligent, altogether conscious comedian, an artful creator of merriment. Hence his final fall from grace seems not pathetic but tragic...
Died. Arthur Cheney Train, 70, novelist-creator of shrewd, lovable Yankee Lawyer Ephraim Tutt: after long illness; in Manhattan. Said Author Train ruefully: "As between Tutt and myself, Tutt will be remembered as the real person and I as the fictional character." Died. Moman Pruiett, 73, shaggy-browed Oklahoma criminal lawyer: of pneumonia; in Oklahoma City. Sent to jail for robbery at 18, he vowed "I'll open the doors of your damned prisons!" Later he became so expert at bringing tears to backwoods jurors' eyes (343 murder cases, 303 acquittals, no executions) that he was considered...
With this musine bow, Stuart Little pops out of the pocket of his creator, New Yorker writer E. B. White, and begins his adventures...