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...hurry. He rushes through a newspaper in five minutes, looking just for items of special interest or use to him; he has little general curiosity. His pockets are always stuffed with notes which he can't find, and he can never keep a comb or a pencil or a handkerchief...
...total number of interviews given was: 325 personal history documents; 2,500 pencil and paper questionnaires; 50 clinical interviews; and about 450 interviews on special topics. The interviews on the special topics, for example, ran from 60 to 120 pages each...
...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
...Idiots Can Vote." Herself a mother (of two) and grandmother (of one), Mrs. Littledale earned her blue pencil by starting as a cub reporter. Fresh from Smith College, she went to work on Oswald Garrison Villard's old New York Evening Post, and became its woman's-suffrage editor: "It was wonderful, just what I wanted to do." It was so wonderful that she became the suffragettes' pressagent, once paraded down Fifth Avenue with a sign which said "Insane and Idiots Can Vote. Why Can't I?" Later she joined Good Housekeeping, became its World...
While not so exotic as the Marcelin brothers' The Pencil of God (TIME, Feb. 5), Ti-Coyo and His Shark shines with a rich blend of Caribbean mockery and Western sophistication. Author Richer, 37, a native of Martinique who has lived in France since 1927, writes with charm and is tactful enough to keep his fable short. What does it all mean? A satire on imperialism, perhaps, with Ti-Coyo symbolizing the native opportunist? Clement Richer, a nonpolitical fellow who describes himself as a misanthrope, is wise enough not to say; all that can be seen is his literary...