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While Beer and Goldings discussed what to say, Silverstein wandered around the room, lifting up the rug to see what type of floor it was. He noticed the bare bookshelves...
...stream, the blue Dresden kerosene lamps were lit when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor...
...city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools," he said, "citizens who want their children to learn religion are deprived ... It would be suitable to have courses on religion in our secondary schools...
Reading this novel about circus life is a little like lifting a splendid rug and finding that unspeakable things have been swept under it. In this case the sweepings are human beings. Author Hoagland, a young Harvardman now serving in the Army, has written a first novel that falls far short of real consequence, but is alive with very real people and very real animals. It makes the circus world itself as startling and brutal as the sudden roar of a lion at five yards...
Long before daylight next morning, the Sultan drove to the holy city of Fez to kneel toward the rising sun, and to pray on a rug beside the grave of his mother, who had died of grief for her son ten days after his removal from the throne...