Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude Elkins runs a poolroom in little Anna, Ill. Like millions of other hardworking U. S. citizens, he seldom sees a horse race but plays the horses nevertheless-wiring his $2 bets directly to the tracks because there is no handbook operator* in little Anna. Every racing day for nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back...
...Handbook operators handle most of the esti mated billion dollars or more wagered on U. S. horse races away from the tracks each year...
Intended as a standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...
...think TIME did an excellent job on the review of the Pacifist Handbook [TIME July...
...wonder whether some people may not be misled by the phrase "go to the front but refuse to kill" placed under my picture. The fact is, of course, that although that is one of the possibilities for pacifists mentioned in the handbook, there are probably no religious pacifists in the U. S. who would advocate or take that course. Personally, I would refuse to render any service, combatant or noncombatant, under military orders...