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Writes Humorist A. P. Herbert in the foreword: "[There is] nothing to compare . . . with Peter Arno's famous couple in bed ('Wake up, you mutt. We're getting married today'). The nearest thing to a sexy joke that I can remember seeing in Punch was this: The Mayor of Liverpool, solemnly commemorating and confirming the long association of Liverpool with the River Mersey, threw a gold ring into the river. Punch said: 'Now that Liverpool has been formally wedded to the Mersey, many are saying it is about time that Manchester did the right thing...
Until a positive world disarmament is effected, the free nations must find and develop "scientific pioneers" to work on long range armament developments, President Conant said in a foreword to the National Science Foundation's first report delivered to Congress yesterday...
...Christmas list of recent religious books: The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy (Page; $3) with a foreword of appreciation by Actress Mary Martin. It all went back to her meeting with India's Prime Minister Nehru, who asked her how she managed to keep so fresh during the long run of South Pacific. By reading something different, she answered. Whereupon he recommended the autobiography of Gandhi, in which Gandhi discussed Tolstoy's book...
...from Thomas Mann, which consists of a polite refusal to submit an article. This might be construed as a gag, except that Mann's name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly out of place in an otherwise professional production...
Ward had also learned how to stretch his financial shoestring. He got experts, who became interested in Year, to do part-time work for little pay, wangled many free pictures, and, for 1951, got Historian Arnold J. Toynbee to write a foreword, simply by writing and asking...