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...rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
...glass one. It took 150 pairs of old spectacles to raise the money, but he got his new eye for Christmas. In 18 years, New Eyes has collected 400,000 pairs of old glasses, sent out money for 65,000 new pairs. In return come hundreds of fervent letters of thanks. Wrote one man: "It's like coming out of a dark cellar. I don't have to stumble any more...
...sons, brothers, husbands and fathers had been listed as missing in action, could only hope against fading hope, or pray that the names they could not find would yet turn up in the ranks of the living. The kinfolk of the 3,198 identified U.S. captives wept, laughed, gave fervent thanks-and all the U.S. shared their painful...
Just one topflight modern painter has devoted his art to the service of religion. Georges Rouault, 80, is both a fervent Roman Catholic and a brilliant expressionist. "My only ambition," he once said, "is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted...
...Marianne Moore is offering her small but fervent public a collected view of her poetic garden. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen before. Through its pleasant paths wander such birds and beasts as the jerboa, the Malay dragon, the pangolin and the plumet basilisk. In one poem she presents "the frilled lizard, the kind with no legs, and the three-horned chameleon . . . that take to flight if you do not." But while the surface of these delicate verses concerns animals, a second look shows that they are about human beings, too-and about such virtues as orderliness, courage...