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...Poet Thompson's death almost 20 years later. It is the theme of this double memoir by Meynell's daughter Viola, who draws two clear, contrasting portraits of two utterly different characters. Based largely on her father's private papers, her book provides not only a sheaf of new Thompson letters but also evidence that without steady, warmhearted Editor Meynell, Thompson, the poet, might never have existed...
Pebbles & Trains. For some Harvardmen, Conant took a good deal of getting used to. Striding across the Yard with a sheaf of papers bundled under his arm, he looked more like a minor clerk than a president. Sometimes on a Saturday, he could be seen tossing pebbles at a laboratory window, trying to catch the attention of one of his ex-cronies at work inside, and sometimes he could be found playing with an electric train on the floor of the presidential ballroom. Even some of his ideas were a bit disturbing. He hated silver spoons and ivory towers...
Cable Trouble. In a recent American Journal of Science, Bruce C. Heezen and Maurice Ewing of Columbia University buttress this theory with a neat bit of historical research. In 1929 a strong earthquake shook the continental shelf 450 miles east of Nova Scotia. It cut a whole sheaf of telegraph cables in a peculiar way. Six cables went out at the same time, but others did not fail until many hours later...
...performed his duties with gusto. His big study in Davis House was always crowded, but neither the babble nor the questions ever bothered him. Each night, "after the lights of the house were out, and the sheaf of absurd French exercises corrected and indignantly marked with red crayon," the boys in the rooms below would hear him begin his nightly pacing...
Just before 6:30 Nixon sat down behind a desk in an NBC television studio in Hollywood, a sheaf of papers at his elbow. He had no written script, and the television crews were so uncertain of his plans that they warmed up two extra cameras in case he should walk out of range of the primary camera. Nixon's wife Pat sat in an armchair a few feet from the desk. When the announcer cued Nixon to start talking, not even Pat knew precisely what Nixon was going...