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...edge of World War I, Idaho-born Expatriate Ezra Loomis Pound, whose tentative growls had already made him one of the more notable young lions in the literary jungles of London and Paris, sent a manuscript to a Chicago publisher. In the somewhat hectic conditions prevailing for small, avant-garde publishing firms, the manuscript was lost. Not until this year was Ezra Pound's essay Patria Mia accidentally recovered-in a dusty package which had been supposed to contain only old bills. Thirty-seven years behind schedule, the publisher dutifully sent the work to the printers...
...hectic now," said President George Mean of the Brighton and District Grocers Association, as Britain's housewives swooped down on the precious jellies and biscuits in a first frenzy of point-freedom, "but everything will settle down very soon...
...nose. Her manager, a light blond, told us that in her less jungle-like moments La Voodoo was known as Stella Danfray. They were just in from Hollywood where DcMille had given her a screen test. And how did La Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic. But zee country ees so beautiful." What interested her most in the States? She looked around for her manager who had gone off in the corner with the buyers. American slang was the answer; she spoke English well, but these quaint expressions--they confused her. Someone in the little group noticed...
...Manhattan, Astrologer-Numerologist Florence Anne Jensen selected the year's "ten most fascinating horoscopes." Among them: General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("headed for a hectic spring and summer as Mars conjuncts his satellium of planets in Libra"); Ingrid Bergman ("Uranus in wide opposition to her Sun at birth ... causes her to be unconventional and overemotional in her dealings with men"); Dean Acheson ("who should exercise extreme caution during ... June, July, and August . . ."); John L Lewis, "who will fare extremely well until April, when Jupiter squares his Pluto-Mars conjunction in the earthy sign of Taurus. This will cause...
...hobby is a hectic pleasure sandwiched in between her old ones. She spends about a fortnight on each picture, working at odd hours in a spare bedroom, her bracelets jangling and her lace peignoir smeared with paint. It irritates her a bit when friends accuse her of painting in a deliberately "naive" way. "I do my best," she says earnestly. "I really...