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Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
Other doings on Capitol Hill last week: ¶ A Senate-House conference weighed fatter (Senate) and leaner (House) versions of 1954 foreign-aid appropriations, agreed on a difference-splitting $5.1 billion-$3 billion less than the Administration requested. This week both houses passed the measure...
Stylish Stout. In San Gabriel, Calif., police wondered why 230-lb. Alberta Patoux always seemed either fatter or thinner, arrested her inside a store, found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes stowed in her tent-size bloomers...
...served them nothing but sandwiches and plain water. His formula for giving a party-"Why go to the expense of serving them champagne, when they'll come anyway?"-was as cynical as his formula for success: "I paint the women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter...
Back in the small print sat the penalty for deficit financing: interest on the federal debt, $6.2 billion-six times fatter than...