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Rhubarb is the only "fruit" available in large quantities. About once every three months a ship arrives with a few hundred crates of oranges, but these go straight to the nurseries. Britons flavor their smoked salmon with weak, artificial lemon extract...
...Along These Streets is Felix Bartain Macalister, scion of a solid old Philadelphia family. Shy, thoughtful, idealistic, Felix is afraid of women and in some unexplained way his physical economy is adjusted to do without love: he seems to be oppressed by a fear that he, like a salmon, will die after mating. But as the story progresses he comes to know women better and to fear them less. On page 434 he almost has an affair, and on page 540 he actually does. In the end he marries, after much soul searching...
...kind of soldier of which the East has too many. He was the best swimmer of his generation at Woolwich, is a fine golfer, a keen shot, a good skier (passed his "second class" tests at 40), an enthusiastic horseman (once whip of the Staff College drag), an experienced salmon-fisherman (in peacetime went all the way to Norway and Iceland to indulge in this pastime). He has had no jungle experience, although the War Office hopes his brief experience on the Indian North West Frontier in 1930-31 will help him. Some fear that his expert withdrawing capacity...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
...Robert Dick Gillespie, psychiatric specialist of the R.A.F., as he arrived in Manhattan last week: "In the 30 years since I left elementary school I have never been more idle than when serving in the Royal Air Force." Dr. Gillespie, in the U.S. as speaker at the annual Salmon Memorial Lectures,* is giving scholarly talks from coast to coast on "Psycho-neuroses in Peace...