Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazement of his publishers-and of his father ("Well, of course, dear boy, I suppose every dog must have its -day .. .")-the Bridge was a runaway success. Its style was highly polished, its theme somewhat ambiguous, but "everybody" read it or talked about it. The bashful schoolteacher was suddenly famous. "A star of the first magnitude!" cried Billy Phelps. "The stuff of genius!" echoed William Rose Benét. The Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold 300,000 copies in a year, was translated into French, German and three other languages. In Peru, tourist guides managed to find a site...
Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...
...tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy: "Dr. Graham has such a lion's voice, so much power, and he speaks so rapidly, I can't let my mind wander a minute...
...Dog Rag (Ruby Wright; King). A conglomeration of honky-tonk piano, ragtime lyrics, and a jigging beat in an effectively deadpan performance...
With time out to do a turn with WPB during World War II, Solinskj' built his little Cans, Inc. into an $8,000,000-a-year business making containers for Perk Dog Food (TIME, Sept. 29), popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says...