Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever solutions have been propagated as a new white magic, they relate at best to a non existent, generic abstraction called 'The Child.' but not to real children who grow up in families, with all their traditional restrictions and difficulties but also traditional emotional support...
...Sayre's brand of selling has worked its usual magic for Norge. At a distributors' convention this month, the company wrote $17.2 minion in orders more than for any three-month period the company's history. But Salesman bayre still puts his ultimate faith in the retail salesman. Says he: "There are still lot of good retail salesmen. All they need is direction and incentive and an organized plan-a track on which they...
Also Barber's Itch. Hoxsey's rise began 30 years ago in Illinois, when he inherited the magic formula from his father, an itinerant veterinarian turned faith healer and "cancer expert." Skipping from town to town across the U.S., Hoxsey prescribed the tonic for internal tumors, and a yellowish arsenical powder (a widely used turn-of-the-century remedy) for skin cancer. By his own count, he was arrested more than 100 times. During a suit against the A.M.A. in Iowa, in 1931, one patient testified that after Hoxsey diagnosis and treatment, he had gone to a local...
...MAGIC PICTURES, by Marcel Aymé (Harper; $2.50), is all about a wonderful farm where pigs have wings, the wolf who ate Little Red Ridinghood goes vegetarian, and two little French girls named Delphine and Marinette share all their secrets with the animals and none with their parents. Aymé, a skilled satirical taxidermist of the French middle class (The Barkeep of Blémont, The Miraculous Barber), brings his farm animals to life so wisely and winningly that he is now being hailed in France as the best fabulist since La Fontaine...
...MAGIC FISHBONE, by Charles Dickens (Vanguard; $2.50), frames a Cinderella story and a magic wish round the theme that "when we have done our very, very best . . . and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." In a handsome collaboration between centuries, and in the first new U.S. edition in 25 years, Illustrator Louis Slobodkin adorns Word Magician Dickens' fable with just the right visual touch of fairy-tale grandeur...