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...later, the county school board made the same request, but McVey still refused. Last week, when he ignored a formal order from North Carolina's Tenth District Superior Court to keep David at home, he was hauled off to jail. Said McVey: "I'll stay here and rot before I take little David out of school." This week, there he stayed- and David stayed in school...
...debate, the U.S. delegation pressed its reluctant friends to a vote. Forty-four nations supported the U.S. resolution, against seven, a sign that strong leadership will bring a strong response. In Indo-China, a single man, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, by an act of will, stopped the rot that undermined resistance to Communism...
...Abbey, Bedfordshire home of the Russell family, were bulging with more than 500 canvases-one of the best private collections of old masters in England. The present duke has never bought a picture, but last week he had a cure for generations of collecting. With Woburn collapsing from dry rot and taxes, he had just auctioned off 200 of his less important old masters, including paintings by Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Murillo. Gross sales...
...rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...
Inventory. In Grafton, N.Dak., Postmaster George W. Mclntyre considered a letter addressed to the "Chief of the Communist Party" in Grafton, returned it to the sender, Richard Rolnick of Pfaffenhofen, Germany, with a little note: "We had a little ring rot in the potatoes, the snow is up to our belts, the water is up to our necks, and ... we expect a mild infestation of grasshoppers. But, thank heaven, we have been unable to find a Communist...