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...toward the end of the 30s he was itching to expand. He wrote his first book for kids: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," the story of a baby von Munchausen who devises whoppers as he strolls home. His big early success was with "Horton Hatches the Egg," the 1940 parable of an elephant who sits on a bird's egg for 51 weeks until, when the chick hatches, it has four legs and a trunk - an elephant bird. ("Horton" was made into a terrific 10min. cartoon directed by Warners' Bob Clampett. Both books are still...
...Europe erupted in war, real life roused Ted from his verdant and productive dreamlife: "I found that I could no longer keep my mind on drawing pictures of Horton the Elephant. I found myself drawing pictures of Lindbergh the Ostrich." Annoyed by the controversial air hero Charles Lindbergh and the blinkered isolationism he was seductively selling to America, Geisel became the editorial cartoonist for PM, the left-wing New York City newspaper. "The New Yorker dismissed us as 'a bunch of young fogies,' " Ted later wrote. "I think we were a bunch of honest but slightly cockeyed crusaders...
...using them in our overall initiative to pay folks electronically," says Tonia Horton, director of payroll and financial services at Sears, which is rolling out payroll cards to its 4,300 domestic locations, including department stores, automotive centers and corporate offices. The cards are a great match for Sears' large part-time force, says Horton, as well as the company's young workers, who receive more than 70% of the paper checks that Sears still cuts. In the 11 states where law allows, Sears is giving employees two choices: direct deposit or payroll card. In other states, where paper checks...
...Whitney Horton began the second-half outburst for the Quakers (5-7, 2-2), putting one in the top of the net with 25 minutes...
...poster said, “Natalie: Day 25. Did you know: my heart is already beating!” Below the fetus was a quote: “‘A person’s a person no matter how small.’ –Horton Hears...