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...rare heroes. O'Casey can also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye...
...wheat-harvesting time on the Canadian prairies last week, but in many a field the wheat was dull brown instead of the normal harvest yellow. Fostered by cloudy, wet weather, an epidemic of rust fungus had ravaged Canada's wheat crop. Between the grain rust and bad weather, the 1954 harvest has shrunk to an estimated 370 million bushels-36% below 1953 and 44% below...
Honeyed Goddess. Last month Digger Sestieri hit real pay dirt. His workers broke into Paestum's "sacred precinct," surrounded by a wall of massive square boulders. Inside they found a small, hut-shaped temple. The interior walls were of stucco; on the floor were a rust-corroded iron bedstead and a set of ornate, gilded bronze water jars. Each jar, decorated with figures of female heads, sphinxes, rams and serpents, was filled with an amber-colored, resinlike substance: solidified honey. Presumably distilled from the nectar of Paestum's famed roses, the 2,500-year-old honey...
Arthur thus edged a notch closer to brother Tom Jr., 40, I.B.M. president. A graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of '42), Arthur rose to major in Army Ordnance during World War II, returned to join the family company as a salesman in 1947. ¶ Donald E. Rust, 76, white-haired patriarch of the greeting-card business, was elected president and chief executive officer of United Printers and Publishers Inc., second largest U.S. greeting-card maker.-An ex-Colorado mining engineer, Rust quit his profession in 1906 to join his brother Fred in a Kansas City bookshop...
Together they brought out a prototype of the flowery Christmas card, saw it catch on, and founded Boston's Rust Craft Publishers, Inc. (now a United Printers subsidiary). Cashing in on sentiment and anniversaries, they built Rust Craft into a business with a $10,200,000 gross last year...