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...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
These are some of the conclusions about animal behavior reached by the late G. Kingsley Noble, onetime curator of experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...
...British thinking, on the whole," says Author Lennon, in her book's most discerning passage, "that each man thinks for himself, yet all reach the same conclusions." But Lewis Carroll, she believes, belongs with that strange, not-quite-sane minority of British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland for readers who are too busy or too timid...
...after dinner at Don Phillips' rancho, are sure that Don has Toni of the Ritz in his kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
Wittiest, most serious paradox came from iron-grey, satirical New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin: "We are now in a period of profound peace, which is the last we are likely to have for some time to come. . . . When the war is over, the period which we shall enter will be one of the greatest difficulty and danger...