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Like the people, the beasts of the world needed help in this worst of postwar winters, but they were not all friendless. Some beasts set out to help themselves. In Britain, Lincolnshire crows, hard put to find fodder under the heavy snows, were attacking sheep; one herder last week reported three sheep killed by the raiders. In the U.S., a huckster's horse with a will of his own staged a sit-down strike smack in the middle of a busy Baltimore street...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...
...years white-maned, heavy-jowled Painter Chirico has held to his contention that surrealism's fodder is worthless fare. Now he got around to blasting the sins (or possibly imitations of the sins) of his own youth. Squawked Chirico: 19 out of 25 "early Chiricos" exhibited recently by Paris' Galerie Allard were counterfeit Chiricos...
While Time Remains is an effort to assess the degree of that "unpreparedness" and an inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went...