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...tidy as house cats (they lick each other clean after a hunt), and so smart that fanciers claim that a chilly Basenji will grip a shovel in his teeth and heap coal on a dying fire, Basenjis were once favored pets at the courts of Egypt's Pharaohs. In 1936 a pair of them were brought to London. In a decade their number increased to 75 (worth about ?250 each...
Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...fact, the Senior Editor in charge decided to write the story himself. The preliminary work involved talks with Miss Anderson, her mother, friends, teachers, impresarios, etc.' But the important work was done, the writer claims, one afternoon when he shut himself up with a phonograph and a heap of records of Negro spirituals and played them over & over...
...fate of the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from the conference tables of the original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...
Meanwhile, in the offices of the detective division of Central Square, over 100 students filed in throughout the day to reclaim clocks, desk lamps, and badminton rackets, but a large automatic record changer remained in the unidentified heap at closing time. Clothing piled on a large table, ranged from a pair of dungarees to formal attire complete with cummerbunds, and even a Newton High cheerleader's sweater...