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...house, "Dun's Law" (which betrays the family's Highlands origin), will be warm enough during Christmas, despite certain draughty cracks between the kitchen part (about 130 years old) and the living room part (about 75 years old). Like most of the village houses, it has had additions, interpolations and subtractions through the years, and like many of the dwellings, it once served as a boarding house itself. Oil furnaces have made the constant struggle to keep warm only a memory, though most housewives insist that their kitchens have at least a token woodstove for toast and rice-pudding making...
...economy, accounted for most of the 1,100 business failures a month during the first six months of 1956. This was a postwar record. Yet it was an inevitable reflection of a rapid climb in business starts (from 348,000 to 406,000 in 1951) five years ago. Said Dun & Bradstreet: more than 50% of the failures were in businesses under five years old; more than 90% could be traced to "inexperience." To attack this problem, the Administration last week completed a sweeping 14-point program of aid, e.g., a 10% tax cut on the first $25,000 of income...
...philosophy, of course, depends on the money with which to implement it. Sachar had the good sense to realize that he could not count on support simply because of a vague sympathy by Jews for a Jewish undertaking. It is a truism about American Jewry that its members dun each other for a perplexing number of causes. Instead, Sachar realized that the University's principles, if understood by potential benefactors, could lead to more certain bases of support...
French Trail Blazers. Monet and Renoir nevertheless persisted in following the evidence of their own eyes rather than the accepted (dun-colored) mode of seeing. Though they lost their first battles to a color-blind public, they could not possibly lose the war, since optical truth was on their side. The truth spread slowly. Toward the close of the igth century it was brought across the Atlantic by the best, of the American impressionists...
Martignoni (5 12 pp.; Grosset & Dun lap; $4.95), is the year's bargain in children's books, a fat, discriminating collection of writing from Beatrix Potter to Phyllis McGinley, and illustrations by such immortals as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Palmer Cox and others nearly as good. If there really is a comic-book menace abroad, this book is much the best way to cope with...