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...Lady Godiva [TiME, Aug. 9]: hang the Coventry school authorities and all holy Ned-raising historians up with Collier's version-but leave us laymen see Landseer's "lemon...
...Lemon for Laymen
...Farewell. The travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...
...professor's observations have come several books. The most successful of these was Canary (1936). The most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery of life...
...Detroit, 200-lb. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, a revamped third baseman, took a big stride toward becoming 1948's pitcher-of-the-year by twisting the Detroit Tigers' tail as no pitcher had before him in 26 years. He gave no hits, only three walks. It was his eleventh win of the season (against six defeats) and the American League's first no-hitter under lights...