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They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and...
Reconstructing the card trick was simple. The five women had come in early in the evening, bought cards for the big $1,000 game, and appropriated the corner table. Some time during the evening, the woman with the "winning" card substituted a matching orange card with unnumbered squares from a...
The scene switches to Mount Olympus, where Jupiter is having trouble with his wife Juno. She berates him for his old trick of assuming the shape of a shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn...
In his new book, Paton's manner has far more tedious, the treatment of the subject matter far less convincing. Pieter van Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So...
Matthews was now the Communists' No. 1 fellow traveler. Then something happened that changed his life. He had become a director and vice president of Consumers' Research (an organization formed to make impartial tests of consumer products and pass along its findings to subscribers). Employees of the growing...