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...self-conscious hero, Lewis writes little of the spectacular deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane...
Quintuplets from their poor home, made them the luxurious handmaidens of science and official wards of the King. Beamed new Deliverer Dr. Ildor Joyal of North Bay: "Un gros garçon! A real bouncer! A really strong and healthy baby, messieurs! Nor have I ever seen a more radiant and joyful mother...
...voiced by the Mother Church's incoming president, Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwell Tomlinson. Daughter of Americus Vespucius Tilton Cadwell, she was born in Wisconsin some 60 years ago, went to Boston where she met and married a Christian Science Church trustee. Rev. Irving Clinton Tomlinson, now 76. Grey and radiant, Mrs. Tomlinson has performed many a "remarkable healing," still maintains a Christian Science practitioner's office in Boston's Back...
...week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places: 2) the fireplace where Presidents had their food cooked a century ago; 3) the office of White House Bookkeeper Henry F. Nesbitt who records all parcels received at the White House, keeps an eye on the silver...
...working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness, to the unbeatable optimism of the clan, ends with an inspirational scene in which young Silas and his bride think back over the years and apprehend the radiant reality of their faith. Worldly readers may feel that the Crocketts, better endowed with backbone than with acumen, never properly realized that things were rapidly going from bad to worse...