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...DAFFODIL SKY (256 pp.)-H. E. Bates-Little, Brown...
Each woman had a yellow daffodil in her stringy hair, and they had all just finished gulping down cookies and purple punch. What had happened to the usual somber atmosphere of "G-3"? The simple answer was provided by a patient standing near the door. "The volunteers have come," she said, almost breaking into a smile...
...Worcester, Virginia Mistark, a 14-year-old high-school student, waited for more than half an hour to give Taft a yellow daffodil. He smiled and stuck the flower into his lapel. When Virginia remarked that she might be late for class, he took her notebook and penned a note to her teacher: "Please excuse Virginia Mistark for being late. I delayed her. Robert A. Taft...
After 15 years as editor, Weyer is still as enthusiastic about a daffodil as about a dinosaur. For that reason, Constant Reader Kieran could write in the anniversary issue: "A regular reader ... is bound to obtain a liberal education in the natural sciences with no feeling of pain...
Britons were shocked and gloomy. The usually imperturbable BBC had a moment of emotion: "most tragic night of the war. . . ." Famed Cartoonist David Low, who is seldom kind, spoke for Britain with a true and tender pen (see cut). Londoners bowed their heads in daffodil-blooming parks as military bands played The Star-Spangled Banner...