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Many of the earliest humans lived on sea food, picking up clams and oysters. Later, man largely deserted the sea as a source of food. Now, with the land filling up with people, the sea looks good again. In Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Dr. Francis Joseph Weiss, Austrian-born chemist, tells how man might harvest the sea's bumper crops...
...thine earliest symbol be thy last...
...neat signature. In the lobby of the modern brick building is a wall-sized photograph of the artist at work, looking uncomfortable in a suit coat and starched collar. Beyond is a gallery 40 feet long, for 135 of Russell's best paintings and sculptures from his earliest period up to his death in 1926: strictly realistic images of dust-churning buffalo herds and galloping Indian braves, rearing horses, squaws and cow pokes...
...greatest part of the treatment lies in the psychiatrist's efforts to help the patient to understand the origins of his problems. This means going back to how he developed as a person from earliest childhood-how his personality developed. It involves helping him to see that his poor ways of handling situations are complicating his problems. It does no good simply to tell him that; he must be helped to see for himself. It is no use exhorting him to use will power; he must be guided through the mazes of his mind and memory until he recognizes...
...unhappy alliance that ended in another divorce when Audrey was ten. Her father, J. A. Hepburn-Ruston, was a high-pressure business promoter and rabid anti-Communist who, after leaving Audrey's mother, joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists). Audrey's earliest companions were her two older half brothers, with whom she spent many hours in tomboy comradeship, climbing trees and racing across the green fields of their Belgian estate. Unlike most little girls, she did not care for dolls. "They never seemed real to me," she says. She preferred instead the company...