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...points out that only four of the 115 Scholars of the House have failed to satisfy the requirements, and that a significant amount of national publication, especially of the creative writing, has come out of the program (this includes two books, Children of the Ladybug, a play by Robert Thom; and The Flourishing Wreath, a critical study of the seventeenth century British poet Thomas Carew by Edward Selig...
George Curtis Quick, ladybug merchant of Phoenix, Ariz., was as busy last week as any of his bugs. Orders were flooding in from all over the country. An Oklahoma farmer ordered 1,000 gallons of bugs (135,000 bugs per gal.). A group in the Texas Panhandle wanted all that "Pappy" Quick could supply. The price: $7.50 per gal., in lots of ten gallons or more...
Scheduled to appear about a year after war's end, the new cars will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices...
...When in danger, the ladybug lies on its back at the enemy's mercy. It cannot be blamed because nature gave it no horns or sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...
...known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks...