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...attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning outfits" by selling goldeye needles...
...some of the recent ones: Boxer Ezzard Charles, Cartoonist Al Capp, Minister Perle Mesta, Actress Tallulah Bankhead) have given the program a 2.7 Pulse rating against the 2.3 of her veteran rival Mary Margaret McBride. But what disconcerts many listeners is the drumfire of basic-English commercials, fead in pear-shaped Grotonese, with which the show is slittered. Mrs. Roosevelt may murmur to a distinguished guest: "And now I think Elliott would like to say something...
...Hassan Abd el Rahim, 42, burly, fat-padded Egyptian army lieutenant, who refreshed himself mid-Channel with five cups of tea and coffee, two cheese sandwiches, a pear and a pound of honey. No. 2 in the race almost to the end, he sprinted the last few hundred yards, clambered ashore the winner in the record-breaking time of 10 hours 53 minutes.† "Allah, Allah, a record!" he shouted...
...Brazil's longtime, stern-fatherly dictator, little, pear-shaped Getulio Vargas sponsored social legislation for Brazil's workers. It was a good pitch, and it built up a large following who ecstatically called themselves "queremistas" (literally, "wanters"-a telescoped version of the slogan: "We want Getulio!"). The queremistas felt a personal relationship with their "papa of the poor...
...titles like The Red Sun Is Gnawing at the Spider) looked like the absent-minded doodles of a preoccupied businessman. They were crammed with little stars, half moons, circles, eyes, teeth and amorphic blobs loosely knit together with wandering black lines. There were also sculptures and such: highly polished pear-sized bronzes and "objects" made of bricks, rusty wire and old bones. All these things were produced by Joán Miró, a Spanish-born painter-sculptor who has long been a fashionable exponent of all that is doodliest in modern art (TIME...