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...thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
Flowers of the desert stretched across Arizona; Picacho Pass, where the only far western encounter of the Civil War was fought, was splotched with pale yellow poppies, blue lupins, red Indian paint brush...
More than a thousand men, with rifles and shotguns, turned out. There were snuff-dipping, mackinawed men from the forests; ruddy, overalled farmers of sturdy Swiss stock; pale businessmen from the little towns. They stood in line, swore on the Bible...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...
...this fine forenoon the Ambassador and his lean, genteel, partly French wife had started on their morning constitutional from their stucco house down through the orchards of Cankaya Hill to the Embassy. They had surveyed the distant snowcapped mountains and had just passed the pale green apartment house occupied by British Counselor Geoffrey Thompson. Then, 50 feet away, the bomb went...