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When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...
...policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
...works, but it no longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their drinks, from opaque Bloody Marys to phony-bucolic applejack. Mostly they are reduced to talking to each other...
...Unbeaten so far this season, the Cleveland Indians' ace righthander, Bob Lemon, finished his fourth complete game and won his fifth victory as he beat Baltimore 5-2. The Indians' other pitchers combined have won only four games...
Actually, no other prediction is possible. Cleveland won 111 games last year by murdering inferior teams with its great pitching staff of Lemon, Wynn, Garcia, Houtteman, and Feller. These hurdlers are still there, and the other six teams in the league (excluding New York) are still much inferior. In addition, the Indians now have Ralph Kiner and sensational rookie pitcher Herb Score...