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...forgotten. Most of the remembered artists, and a few of the failures, are crammed into Illustrators of Children's Books (Horn Book Inc.; $15), a newly published, 527-page history of art for children. A few favorites, like Beatrix Potter and Ernest Shepard (who illustrated Milne's Pooh books), are represented by just one drawing each...
...crimson carpet spilled down the steps of the yellow sandstone Sind Provincial Legislative Assembly Building in Karachi. A turbaned, barefoot Moslem carefully dusted it off, pressed it with an enormous flatiron. All was now ready for the Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid...
...Winnie-the-Pooh) Milne's 26-year-old son, the original Christopher Robin of the nursery verses, a war veteran, won honors at Cambridge in his English examinations...
Later on, a CRIMSON campaign culminated in the University administration's dropping the requirement that seniors take four courses. A Ku Klux Klau organizational campaign was pooh poohed by the breakfast table daily as was the idea of a Soldier's Bonus...
...stepped New York Financial Consultant John W. Hanes, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, and chairman of the Tax Foundation, a big-business tax-research group. Witness Hanes declared that present tax laws added up to "foolish and dangerous discrimination against those with managerial ability." Pooh-poohing Government figures, he declared that the Treasury surplus would be large enough to enable the U.S. to have substantial tax cuts and substantial debt reduction, too. What Congress had to do, said Hanes, was to cut federal spending...