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...Swede is one of the healthiest and handsomest physical types in the world. Politically and economically, he is mature, practical, cooperative. Psychologically, he is the victim of the national claustrophobia which torments all small European nations. Diplomatically, he intends to remain neutral during World War II, just as he did during World War I, and for more than 100 years before that. But there are limits...
Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating...
...crazes and fads which arrived concurrently with the defense crisis, the Pan-American madness is the healthiest and the likeliest to become a pernianent fixture for the American people, like golf and tomatoes. Until the force of a common danger made them feel the unity of the hemisphere, most Americans thought of South America purely as an uncivilized land at the other end of a Caribbean cruise. Now they are beginning to wake up to the culture that exists down under...
...Champion horses had been picked, and the barrows (pigs), the sheep, the five healthiest boys & girls from the 4-H Clubs (Head, Heart, Hands, Health), the best 4-H cooks and dressmakers. Kings of corn, oats, hay, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa seed had all been crowned. The crowd had taken its fill of side-show exhibits: insect pests, choice meat cuts, Sculptor Charles Umlauf 's 13 skating pigs done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer...
...drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary used to leave his bedroom door ajar so that Charles would not have...