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...attract dramatic explicators. He also made a little sense on first reading. When Thomas described "a dingle starry" in Fern Hill, he had set it in the night, and the reader could see stars over the valley. But when Kozol writes of a "starry dingle" it is broad daylight, and indeed the whole phrase serves no apparent purpose in the story. I cannot resist the conclusion that Kozol is playing games with himself. And yet, discovering that the story was enthusiastically received by Professor MacLeish's writing course, I am also tempted to conclude that the whole dream...
Between commercials, the airline and travel-agency plugs and the ejaculations of the transmitter, Godfrey occasionally described an average day. Viewers could look at a map of Africa on their TV screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
...DAYLIGHT TIME will be tried out by Pennsylvania Railroad for all its passenger schedules beginning April 28. The first major long-haul rail line to advance its timetables and clocks by one hour, Pennsy will decide later whether to make shift every year for convenience of its customers...
Chew-Chew. In Fresno, Calif., when the San Joaquin Daylight train arrived 18 minutes late, Southern Pacific officials blamed "unforeseen operating difficulties" for the delay-Engineer William J. Franey had sneezed, blown his upper dentures out the cab window, stopped the train to hunt for them...
...wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news out of the Republican Telegram...