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Back in the mid-'30s a husky, big-nosed, pale-eyed Virginian named Horace Gates Brown moved his wife and three sons to California. It was, as they often say in Hollywood, Fate. This was not immediately apparent, however, for, as they also often say in Hollywood, the mills of the gods grind slowly...
Unfortunately for the sake of argumentative clarity, Miss Sitwell's denial was published alongside a passionate defense of her phrase by a susceptible reader who roundly denounced Toynbee. "I know quite well what [Emily-colored hands] are like," she wrote, "thin, pale, yellowish and faintly freckled...
...Years of Work. At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. Clement Attlee «went to Buck-.ingham Palace to hand King George VI his resignation as Prime Minister. His three-week. Truman-style tour through the provinces had left him pale and exhausted. Three nights before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went...
Intellectually, today's young people already seem a bit stodgy. Their adventures of the mind are apt to be mild and safe, and their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took...
Brown University changed its football color to a pale blue yesterday...