Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa story, The Hill People, by Elizabeth Marshall, is a most intriguing study of the mixed emotions and loyalties of a native girl who has married a white man. It is written in the "he said...she said" technique with a minimum of interpretation, but the dialogue manages to hint out a great deal of the atmosphere, and the ending, while it is shocking, nevertheless seems to round out a well-planned situation. Miss Marshall's story is probably the best work in this issue; she creates richness of context with simplicity of expression, and makes a good story...
...explore the world, even if only vicariously. A Danish Expedition Fund was set up, but it had no funds. Then Oceanographer Anton F. Bruun had a bright idea. He persuaded the government to waive import taxes on scarce luxury goods sent to the Expedition Fund by overseas Danes. A hint to overseas Danes was enough. Back came a flood of canned pineapple, coconuts, cigarettes, honey. The gifts sold for $600,000 and paid for equipping the Galathea, an oceanographic research ship...
Aside from these demonstrations of fervor, the Summerfield-Cleary neutrality plan worked. Fourteen districts gave no hint of their preference. After a compromise slate of ten delegates at large was presented to the convention, the chairman of the "Michigan for Eisenhower" committee moved for its election, the chairman of the "Bob Taft Committee of Michigan" seconded the motion, and the head of the "MacArthur for President Committee" moved that nominations be closed. The delegation as a whole was indeed uninstructed...
Questions. There were many unanswered questions in the saga. Authorities hoped that treatment at a state hospital for the deaf & dumb at Graz might provide the answers to some of them: doctors guessed that shock had taken his speech. Meanwhile, Janos himself offered one more sphinxlike hint'. On the night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning...
...visitors swarmed through the gallery, Bemelmans swarmed too. He chattered merrily, all but poured the punch. "Painting is fun," he told everyone. "But of course the most fun is selling the pictures." Houstonians took the hint. By the time Bemelmans pulled out of town in a new cowboy hat, at least seven of the canvases had been spoken for. One oilman's wife had offered him shares in a wildcat well (yet to be drilled) in exchange for a painting. "I'll swap oil for oil," bubbled Bemelmans...