Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge, Mass., seeing only friends (and never the press),*reading history and philosophy, and recalling the past. On long London bus rides he used to amuse himself by imagining the great figures of history as his companions. He liked to wonder what they would think of what he saw about him. This week, in Whitehead's newly published Essays in Science and Philosophy (Philosophical Library; $4.75), readers will find this same sense of continuity and perspective...
Just one year ago, on Derby Day, he ran the first race of his career, and romped home nine lengths ahead. But only a few saw him do it. It was the first race of the day, run off at high noon, a time when most Derby fans are still at breakfast (annoying waitresses by calling them "honeychile" in phony Southern accents), being accosted by the "three-card monte" players near the stables, or having their first mint julep of the day at the Churchill Downs...
...Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, was almost too preoccupied to notice his debut. Her thoughts at the 1946 Derby were on her highly touted entry, Lord Boswell, Knockdown, Perfect Bahram, who were to carry her colors in the big race-but finished out of the pari-mutuel money. But some who saw Jet Pilot's debut said sagely: "There's the winner of next year's Derby...
...analyses of Marxism, Chesterton's ideal pattern for society lay not in the future (with the dictatorship of the proletariat) but in the past. In the Middle Ages, said he, men inhabited "a world more wonderful than the eyes of men have looked on before or after . . . and saw St. Francis walking with his halo a cloud of birds...
Until then, the censorship holiday on conference news had gone fairly smoothly. But when the censors read about the interview in cables (it was not reported in the Soviet press), they began bearing down. Many dispatches were delayed; some were rejected outright. "The one fact they [the censors] saw in stories of the Stassen interview," cabled Carlyle Holt of the Boston Globe, "was that Stalin approved censorship...