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Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...
Last week, government atomic experts were hoping it would all turn out to be as good as it looked. The new find is only two miles from a highway, and is right on the line of traffic down the Great Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector...
...black limousine with the red leather cushions, and for all the hectic saluting that went on wherever starchy old Courthouse strode or rode. General Lee, supply chief to easygoing Ike Eisenhower, loved parades and smaller pomp, and he insisted that his quartermasters, bakers and truck drivers be snappier, and handier with that salute, than any combat infantryman...
Virginia-born Lady Astor, usually handier with vinegar than honey, paid her native land a pretty tribute as she sailed for Britain after another visit home: "Despite the radio, movies, and the selling here-some of them would sell their own grandmother if it would do any good-the people are the soundest, sanest and most generous people in the world." For Russia, she expressed what almost sounded like sympathy: "Look at Russia's internal problems. Look what she has to do with that vast country of hers-feeding all those people, and cleaning them...
...Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...