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...parasite was actually Ernie's imperfect twin, the result of incomplete division of embryonic cells before Ernie was born. Imperfect twinning sometimes results in scarcely noticeable effects (a baby may be born with a small tumor containing teeth, hair, etc., showing that a twin was begun but not completed), or in Siamese twins...
...showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry on our ideals then England will be the spiritual home of man as truly as Greece is his intellectual...
...Radio Actress Chase's first book since her autobiographical Past Imperfect, It is dedicated to the literary limousine trade...
...element in the larger, total power of air forces, navies and armies. Yet, in this warfare, air power was free-free to be used as airmen willed and designed it. First in Spain, then in the early campaigns of World War II, the Germans had made an imperfect start in this warfare. Now, over Sicily and Italy, it was waged from the air with a might, diversity and cohesion which the Germans never approached...
Ilka Chase, an actor on the stage screen and radio, as well as author of a dubious funny book, "Past Imperfect," opened last night at Brattle Hall in a revival of S. N. Behrman's comedy "Biography." Not as good as his other comedies, which include "No Time for Comedy," the play is the story of a successful career woman, a painter, and her decision to write her life story for a national magazine...