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...observed Ogden Nash, and as if in agreement, Mercer Mayer has produced Two More Moral Tales (Four Winds; $3.50). No adult is needed to explain these textless jokes about pigs who put on elaborate evening wear and then head for mud, or about a venal fox who sells fur coats that are still alive. The Chicken's Child, by Margaret A. Hartelius (Doubleday; $4.95) is similarly pictorial. A chicken accidentally hatches an alligator egg. The green baby thereupon eats corn, pies, wash-tubs and tractors, yet still manages to win himself an honored place on the farm...
...horse auctioneer. After divorcing her first husband, a Boston sporting man and alcoholic, Nancy took her young son to England. There, in 1906, she married Waldorf Astor. He was the great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor I, the German immigrant who made a staggering fortune in the American fur trade and New York real estate. His grandson, William Waldorf Astor, a failed conservative politician, took the family name and fortune to England...
...that's not Madame Butterfly in a fur coat. The fashion plate is Dewi Sukarno, 35, widowed fourth wife of former Indonesian President Sukarno, and she just dropped by Paris' House of Dior to sample a new furry creation. Now a Parisienne, Dewi has been working on a book about the Sukarno regime and its overthrow by the army in 1967. "No social life, no parties for me until the end of the year," claimed Dewi. "I'm just concentrating on the book." Well, during the day perhaps. At night the former first lady is still seen...
...atmosphere within the stadium was moneyed and genteel. In front of my seat (halfway down the third-base line) was a tie-and-jacket, there was a tie-and-jacket to my left, and behind me and slightly to my right, two fur coats. Especially at the start of the game, it seemed as if an entire Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they...
...quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle, had a more scientific explanation. He contended that the earth's rumblings were the result of hot air masses trying to escape from the earth's interior...