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...really happens, at least in Burma: somewhere between an elephant's 70th and 80th years, his big, coconut-size heart becomes as worn-out as his teeth. Too tired to follow the herd any longer, he grazes alone, but finds gathering his daily ration of 600 pounds of fodder a mammoth task. Thin and feverish, he moves down to water during the dry months and stands around keeping cool...
...harassed judge asked another witness, Martha's own sister Emma. "The whole parish is full of it," she answered. "How did it begin?" asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...
...Bound), "the father of hot piano," talked and played almost every day for a month. Folklorist Lomax, co-author with his late father, John A. Lomax, of Folk Song U.S.A., etc., listened and recorded. What he heard (and later checked up on) adds up to more than mere reminiscent fodder for jazz fans. Mister Jelly Roll (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), published last week, is also the full-flavored story of a raucous, diamond-studded era of U.S. history, as seen and told by a mulatto genius who lived it from top to bottom...
Doodles. Immediately, uncomplimentary legends began to cluster about Attlee's retiring and "colorless" personality. Such cracks as "An empty limousine drew up at the gate and Attlee stepped out" or "This would never have happened if good old Attlee had been alive" became standard cocktail-party fodder. Attlee's shyness is not that of an insecure or a frightened man. He wants to be alone because he likes it that way. In committee meetings, at parties or in the House of Commons, he seems to have the gift of becoming invisible. As the debate in the House grows...
Protestants don't like to be considered mission-fodder for Roman Catholics-and vice versa. Last week in Italy, of all places, in Rome's Holy Year, of all times, some U.S. evangelists were hanging on to an embattled beachhead. They were members of the Churches of Christ (loosely affiliated fundamentalist churches with an estimated U.S. membership of 700,000), most of them from Texas...