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...Mountain Dweller. Ned was 46-"too young to be happy doing nothing . . . too old for a fresh start''-when he decided to retire to a country cottage and live out his days on the equivalent of $10 a week. Said he: "There is nothing that I want to do, and nothing particularly that I am glad to have done." He added bitterly: "Man is not an animal in which intelligence can take much pride." A year later, flying into a skid on his motorcycle, he dashed his brains out against a tree...
...doctor's prescription for those whose inability to sleep is due to an empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught to relax and not to lie awake worrying about...
...Galloping horses confused artists long before the Persians. To compare one prehistoric cave dweller's version (circa 20,000 B.C.) with Remington's realistic cow ponies, see cuts...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...
...Place for Peasants. Khrushchev's work had brought him face to face with one immutable fact that plagues Communism the world over: that Marxism is and was the creed of a city dweller, with little place in it for the land-loving peasantry. In their writings, Communist thinkers (e.g., Engels) sneer at the muzhiks as "a class of barbarians" with an "anti-collective skull," condemned by history to inexorable extinction. Communist bosses (e.g., Stalin) have consistently endeavored to make the prophecy come true, and the result is a never-ending war between the muzhik and the commissar...