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Through the Wilds. Having failed at the two easiest careers he could think of ("I have been through an amazing amount of work, but my instincts are essentially restful"), he married a Manhattan sculptress and turned explorer-complete with full beard, a concession to a 600-mile hike through the Cameroons. Before his wife died, twelve years later, he had visited some 70 countries and commented on his travels (Black Majesty, Tom-Tom, Dark Islands...
There are some 30,000 professional flutists in the U.S., and nobody knows how many amateurs. Their profusion is due in part to the fact that the flute is the easiest of all wind instruments to play, and in part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris...
...glue need not necessarily be made from the patient's own blood. Anyone's blood will do. But the patient's blood is usually easiest...
...Easiest won of Saturday's races was the 150's defeat of two Tech 150 crows which both slightly outweighed the Crimson oarsmen. Although the race was close at the start, the lightweights stroked by Bill Malcolm gained open water after the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge to finish three-fourths of a length ahead of the Engineers...
...have places on the Moscow agenda. Said Eden in the House of Commons: "We must be frank with one another. . . . There can be no cooperation if it is not based on confidence. . . . Confidence cannot be created by one side alone." Urbanely he intimated that the Russians were not the easiest people in the world to deal with...