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...Once, when he was not invited to a party on the Riviera, he stood behind a hedge and peppered the guests with garbage. Zelda kept right up with him. At a farewell party for Alexander Woollcott, she kicked off her black lace panties and presented them as a go-ing-away present. When budding Novelist Robert Penn Warren praised This Side of Paradise, Scott truculently replied: "You mention that book again and I'll slug...
...have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly horrified when this was revealed to her.) But as a result of many years of violent GI-ing with harsh abrasives and caustic merchandize, the upper layer of fine plastic has been eroded away, exposing the layer of textiles below. Now this leads to two hateful features: First of all, I object to having ravelings of socks in my food, however sterile they may be. But worse...
...each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived DDT-ing...
...Well, if that is so, it is a sorry business." Apparently the Communists had stopped to rest or wait for supplies over the rugged caravan tracks and lofty passes from China. Meanwhile, the boy Dalai Lama and his elderly Regent Takta Rimpoche still seemed to be in Lhasa, accord ing to Sinha; they debated flight to India, last-ditch resistance, or submission to the Chinese. From Lhasa's Potala Palace to the U.N.'s Security Council went a mesage asking for help against "unprovoked aggression." There seemed not a chance...
...understand the ideas of two intellectually honest men when they meet. The President told reporters that General MacArthur is loyal to the nation's foreign policy, and the President wished a lot of your papers were. There was no disagreement between General MacArthur and himself. There was noth ing to be settled about Formosa...