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Through Prickly Pear. Moursund is an all-round man in the best Texas tradition. He controls a local bank. He can survey land, brand cattle, ride a horse through prickly pear cactus, steer his Lincoln Continental through cedar brush in pursuit of game, drop a deer with unerring aim, then gut and skin the animal. To the Judge ranching is more of a pleasure than a source of income. Explains an associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers...
...Velma Branch. A teacher goes behind a screen and asks children to identify the sound of a bouncing ball, an egg beater, a newspaper being crumpled. Pupils smell fruits and flowers, classify objects according to texture, distinguish shapes, care for pets. They even are assigned rudimentary homework: "Take this pear home. Eat it and bring back the seeds tomorrow...
...good friends Picasso, Leger and Braque he perceived that he "was, not going to be first-rate," so he quit art with the argument that he "couldn't stand second- rate painting." Just before he died, Murphy learned that his friend MacLeish had given his 1927 Wasp and Pear to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Murphy was greatly pleased; he had not known when he stopped painting that his art would ultimately help to link the bewildering present with the more settled past...
...worked so hard at the job that, as his wife Peggy recently disclosed, he twice suffered nervous exhaustion, had to take time off. Columnist Drew Pear son seized on that fact to call into question Goldwater's mental stability. In reply, Goldwater pointed to his record as an Army Air Force ferry pilot in World War II, and as a jet pilot who presently holds the rank of major general in the Air Force Reserve...
...only Adam had eaten a pear!" So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine's City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man bothered by the mystery of evil and man's sinfulness. Like Luther before him and Calvin afterwards, Zwingli discovered his solution in the unadorned Word of God, and not in the papal teachings of the corrupt, corrupting, 16th century Roman Church. Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant...