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...worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...mature author would do with the theme of The Young Visiters (Balzac rigged a great part of his Human Comedy round precisely such characters as Ethel Monticue and Mr. Salteena). But it is certain that no adult, whether a Balzac or a Barrie, could have turned out a work ith the unique perfections of The Young Visiters...
...Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
JUST REACHED P. 50 MAY 20 TIME. ALL WORLD INCLUDING NATIONAL PLASTICS AUTHORITY DR. G. KLINE. NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. KNOWS THAT JOHN WESLEY HYATT FOUNDED PLASTICS INDUSTRY WHEN HE ESTABLISHED CELLULOID CORP.. COMPANY WHICH WAS FIRST TO PERFECT CELLULOSE ACETATE PLASTIC WHICH THEY CALLED LUMAR-ITH. REFER YOU TO DR. KLINE'S REVIEW OF PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, P. 198, MAY 1940, SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS JOURNAL...