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Along with making a reader's skin crawl, Dahl hands out primer instruction in such arts as beekeeping, the poaching of pheasants, Chippendale antiques, and the transmigration of souls. British-born Roald (rhymes with you-all) Dahl is interested in all these matters as well as in good wine, roses and birds (he owns 100 parakeets). Thin, balding and scholarly looking, he is as inconspicuous as one of his own characters. But his work closely resembles that of another British expert in horror, Saki, particularly in casual bloodthirstiness and ghoulish wit, and he very nearly equals Saki in fiendish...
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way to Wheaton. The questions put to a prospective faculty member constitute a kind of primer of Fundamentalism, e.g., How long have you been saved? Do you accept the account of the creation of the world and man as recorded in Genesis? Do you recognize a position in Wheaton College as a divine calling to Christian service? Have you used tobacco, alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs in any form within the past year, or danced or played cards or attended the theater or moving-picture theater? The wrong answer to any question...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A primer for all potential stock speculators. Full Disclosure is a frank and fact-filled tour of the "bucket shops" and "boiler rooms" where too many market amateurs are separated from their cash...
...England Primer...
...Committee, Furcolo faced questions from the audience of 200 ranging over such diverse topics as Collins' victory, problems of patronage, his future political plans, relations with the press, inefficiencies in the Dept. of the Public Works, and the role of independent public authorities. The result was an often humorous primer on practical politics...