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...color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...
...peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
Byrnes almost pulled off something even rarer in diplomacy than in baseball-an unassisted triple play. He confirmed the world's growing belief that a strong, positive U.S. line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such...
...rarer kind of dew sweeper was the amateur: at Florida prices, few could afford amateur standing. The dawn patrol slept in auto camps and trailers. They lived on hamburgers and Cokes. In the last few months, six top amateurs have turned pro. Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf...
...Southern governor: "The crimes are revolting, but a part of the blame . . . arises from the neglect of the State and society to provide a better environment. . . . Our public schools, equipped with capable teachers . . . [and] an effective compulsory-attendance law, would do much to correct delinquency among all races." Rarer still, in all North Carolina there was no outcry...