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...drawer messages were heavy with the economic lore behind the $3,750,000,000 credit and its wedded trade agreements. During the final five-day debate the House focused more attention on political expediency. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "The honorable gentlemen no longer have their minds on the arguments; they have their fingers on the popular pulse...
Terre du Temps (whose subject matter is biblical lore) is heavily tinged with gloomy Existentialism (TIME, Jan. 28), like much else in contemporary French thinking. Father Grosjean sighs: "Despair is necessary for success...
...George Reresby Sitwell of Renishaw was an extraordinary man. He spent money like water, dabbled in medieval lore, invented a musical toothbrush that played Annie Laurie. In a milder way, his wife, Lady Ida, was extraordinary too. Though she invented nothing, she also spent money like water (she once paid a large price for a pig said to be psychic), as befitted a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a descendant of the royal Plantagenets...
...years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened doors, cupboards and trunks helped...
Traveling minstrels sang Chief Tristan's praises so plausibly that his legend was adopted by the Welsh, who spiced it up with some fey lore and turned it over to the Irish. Irish harpists remodeled Tristan along the general lines of a fighting Irishman and changed his princess into a pretty colleen. The Vikings got wind of the story and decided that so beautiful a woman must, of course, have had golden hair...