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...Russian Desk also has a special reference library-starting with a complete set of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, whose 65 volumes were removed from Russia by one of our former Moscow bureau chiefs. The first of these useful volumes was printed in 1926, the last in 1947, and complete sets in U.S. private hands are rare. They are especially handy for documenting Soviet life and thought. Even the personal fortunes of the Russian editors of the first volume are instructive: all but one have died, been killed, imprisoned or have disappeared...
Lean, lithe Dr. Selye has a seemingly inexhaustible fund of energy. His six-volume Encyclopedia of Endocrinology, which took 15 years to compile, he dismisses as "finger exercises." To date, little of his theory has been translated into the practice of healing. But he believes that a "whole new branch of medicine is opening up" and intends to devote his life to "this limitless field." He has hopes that specialists in stress will be able to catch up with-and eventually get ahead of-the stresses of civilization...
...looked in Encyclopedia Britannica, Webster's unabridged dictionary, Thrall's Handbook to Literature, the Oxford Dictionary, and several other smaller references, to no avail. What does clerihew mean...
Editor Tuttle's Fishing, a tuna-sized condensation of the whale-sized Fisherman's Encyclopedia, will not make the fish's lot any easier. But it should be as welcome to the nation's fishermen as a fast riffle on a mountain stream. Like command-level planners marking out a country for conquest, the 30 fly-wise, smooth-casting experts who helped to put Fishing together have methodically divided up their subject under such topics as "Game Fishes," "Where To Fish," and "When and How to Fish"-by fly-casting, trolling or spinning; in lakes, offshore...
...Ballon," says The Dance Encyclopedia, is "the ability [of a dancer] to remain in the air for a length of time." To Nijinsky, that was a simple matter: "You have just to go up and pause there a little." But the Paris Opera Ballet's Choreographer Serge Lifar has a more modern solution...