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...they are considered freaks, probably carried long distances by rivers or glaciers. The Murfreesboro diggings-at best a poor relation of the famous diamond "pipes"' of South Africa-are genuine. Ages ago, a volcano must have erupted in what is now Arkansas. Presumably that geologic hiccup eventually resulted in an impressive cone, but hundreds of millions of years of erosion wore it down. The only remnants were traces of the lava that once filled the volcano's vent. The lava was kimberlite, named after Kimberley, South Africa, and as it disintegrated, it released a few diamonds...
...HOUSE, by William Brinkley (373 pp.; Random House; $5.95). There was nothing wrong with Author (Don't Go Near the Water) Brinkley's idea, which was to lampoon a big picture magazine as the sort of hiccup farm where employees run through a four-minute morning, ease up with a five-martini lunch, and frolic back to the office just in time to line up an overnight date with a girl reporter. It was the author's qualifications that did him in. Before giving up journalism for "full-time writing" (as the book-jacket blurb rather cattily...
Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown...
Winding up a strenuous summer at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XII set off a flurry of concern with reports that he had suffered a return of the hiccup attacks that had endangered his life last winter. But last week, the 78-year-old Pontiff allayed anxiety by maintaining a fast-paced work schedule that included two mass audiences, two special audiences and a 15-minute speech, in addition to his regular routine. In an audience with a group of doctors, the Pope said that he was not yet fully recovered, but must keep to his tasks. As he spoke...
...Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles in art is cleverly done. And yet the danger does begin...