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...Burke's own reckoning, his most memorable assignment in India was his 1951 pursuit of a monsoon. New York wanted a photograph of a violent Asiatic downpour. Unfortunately, it was the driest season in a quarter of a century, and with New Delhi wrapped in a drought, Burke pushed on to the Khasi Hills at Cherrapunji. reputed to have the world's heaviest rainfalls. The moment he arrived, the rains ceased. Just after he left, 30 inches fell. As a final blow, he was arrested for taking surreptitious pictures of a perfect formation of monsoon clouds from...
Last year was the driest on record in southern Missouri, even drier than disastrous 1936. This year, so far, has been worse. In the 22 months since December 1951, the moisture deficiency in the southern half of Missouri amounts to a million tons of water for every square mile of tillable land. Said Charlie Williford, U.S. weatherman in Springfield: "All we need is five inches of snow for a week, and a cloudburst in between...
...enough to show that this was a despicable speech, or that its author has never uncovered a Communist spy. The problem of "McCarthyism" is more serious, and has been blurred by Presidential campaign blasts. For the crucial domestic issues are not which pressure group will milk the Government driest, or how many tax collectors will get fired. The real issue is whether we can hold onto that handful of political and civil freedoms which make our system worth preserving...
...field is far from overcrowded, and concentrators usually name this as one of its virtues. Professor Whatmough, the department head, is a world-renowned authority. He relieves the driest lectures with his humorous digressions. Whatmough will be on leave of absence during the Spring term next year...
...lapidary instinct on the poppies, cyclamen and zinnias in his mother's garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection as flowers was a measure of its fineness...