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...with visions of laying hands on just a little more of the living Rockefellers' estimated $1,033,988,000 wealth, Congress had intended only public necropolises to be taxexempt. "Grasping at straws" was the way the tax court described the IRS argument. Now no Rockefeller need fear potter's field...
...PATRICK ROBERTSON 256 pages. Clarkson Potter...
...potter sitting at his wheel will give it a practice twirl between his palms
...when a potter crouching makes trial of his wheel, holding
...LITTLE TRAIN and THE LITTLE FIRE ENGINE. Both by Graham Greene and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Both 48 pages. Doubleday. $4.95 each. Novelist Greene has elsewhere paid tribute to the influence of Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten on his work. These two more or less charming British classics, first published in 1946 when Greene was 42, are self-consciously linked to a whole school of children's homilies about wayward tugboats, ambitious trains and old snow shovels that have cruelly been retired too soon. In the first, a small, bored little engine chuffs away from the town...