Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ills and harsh competitions of the world could be ended by "associative living." It began as a farming venture on 673 acres of rich land. As its population increased (top membership: 112 men, women & children), a gristmill and a smithy were added and the association bought a part interest in two steamboats to get their excess goods and produce to New York. They put the first packaged "name brand" cereals on the market and their stamped trademark, N.A.P., came to stand for highest quality...
...stray that he has never been acceptable to Broadway's Lambs Club, he will be honored this week by a $50-a-plate testimonial dinner (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) for contributing to interfaith understanding (he has played benefits for all racial and religious groups). Milton, whose interest in the ponies used to keep a bookie stationed in his dressing room, is now plugging hard at being a public-spirited citizen: last month he raised $1,100,000 in pledges for cancer research on a backbreaking 16-hour NBC-TV marathon show...
...Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in An Apology for Idlers. "He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return." Many a reader of R.L.S. was reminded of his appraisal last week by a more detached description of industrious, unhappy modern man, given by British Surgeon Sir Heneage Ogilvie in the British Medical Journal...
Robert Shaplen's book of short stories, A Corner of the World, has the topical interest of current news dispatches from Asia. Only the first story has a China setting (Calcutta, Saigon, Manila and Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...
...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...