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...call for David Laurance Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill, publishers, to ask for the names of those who knew their Riley lore best in this part of the country where Riley lore springs at you from everywhere. He suggested a Riley historian named Marcus Dickey, who has a studio at Bear Wallow down in the hills of Brown...
Under Secretary of the Interior. Salary $17,500, expense acct and use of official limousine; excellent oppty with large and well-established org (50,000 employees); early riser preferred: hours 8-4:30. Some travel. Knowledge of geography (esp Alaska and Virgin Islands), mining, fish & game, Indian lore desirable...
...state ownership of the means of production; yet he also was quite clear in confessing regrets. He succeeded in analyzing the dynamics of the free enterprise system far beyond the understanding of most in his age, but he honestly faced the possibility that capitalism with all its fond folk lore was a thing of the past. When he found himself in opposition he expressed it as an individual, and he never took personal refuge in a theoretical labyrinth. Harvard and the world is a poorer place for his passing...
...greatest substitute in the world for the real thing, but it's so hard to keep real snow around here." Men were assigned to go about inspecting the pins and tightening them up so that the winter wind would not rattle the snowflakes. In an older lore, the care of snowflakes had been entrusted only to the nicest angels; the Rockefeller Center man said that maintenance of their snowflakes was "in the province of the carpenter...
Before the Grail is restored to its keeper, the Prester John of early Christian lore, the reader sees murder done and a black mass sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...