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...about a gentle soft-spoken greeting-card poet named Erwin Trowbridge, who has an infallible talent for doping out horse-race winners. As the Poet Trowbridge, George Gobel should have been a natural. Instead, the only thing that stands up in his performance is his crewcut. He is so meek, mild, and mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel's singing voice scarcely carries the length of a baby's crib. Gobel is a comic miniaturist, and a Broadway stage...
...predators. Elsa remains the book's commanding personality, clubbing her children judiciously when they are too rough for her human friends, using the top of the Adamsons' Land Rover as a refuge when she is tired of suckling. The reader acquires some useful information-rhinos make "unexpectedly meek sounds" when they mate, lurking crocodiles will show themselves if one says "imn, imn," before fording a river, and a nursing lioness can retract her teats for convenience while hunting...
...reward after 31 years of service to Trujillo. A bright lad from a middle-class family, he graduated from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job as a government prosecutor, he was the perfect functionary-meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet...
Britain's meek and undemanding state schoolteachers have long existed on rock-bottom salaries. Out of a deep responsibility to the profession, they put up with pay that starts at $1,456 a year (against a national average wage of $2,184 a year) and rises after 17 years' service to a maximum of $2,800. Many of them must do without such attributes of affluence as refrigerators, washing machines, books, records, playgoing and holidays abroad. Few own cars; typical of those who do is London Geography Teacher Bruce Given, 49, father of three, who recently bought...
...Nicosia to New Delhi last week with a planeload of 20 in his party, onetime Manhattan Adman Bowles wisely refrained from discussing his problems with the President. But Bowles Press Aide Carl Rowan said airily: "If Mr. Bowles was afraid of being ousted one would assume he would appear meek and cautious. Instead, he has spoken with strong conviction." And Bowles's aides were prolific with puffs about their chief. Said one: "Our man knows all the African problems, and he is clear about what stand he thinks the U.S. should take in each...