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...that glitters is not gold, unfortunately, and as a pundit Hugues has been known to give himself over to such dogmatizing that myriad grains of salt are required for most of us to digest his writings. Famed Concert Meister Eddie Condon was once so unkind as to remark to the effect that, "We aren't giving him lessons on how to squash grapes; where does he get off trying to tell us how to play hot music...
...Authors. One co-author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
...days before, the Democratic Digest had come off Capitol presses with the charge that a vote for the stringent Case anti-strike bill had been a "vote against the American people...
...colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...
Whether, afterwards, those who got in had a clearer idea of Yes than those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...