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...Theodore Leslie Shear is glad that Italy did not make war on Greece any sooner. Professor of classical archeology at Princeton, Dr. Shear was in charge of a grandiose excavation project which has gone on at Athens for ten years. When bombs fell on Peiraeus and elsewhere around Athens, Dr. Shear shut up shop abruptly. But his work was nearly complete anyway...
...dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue from tapioca, blood albumin glue from slaughtered cattle and other animal glues. None of these was an adhesive that would "really stand up and fight with tension, torsion, or shear...
...Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences...
Barbers who are restrained by professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops...
Greece. Continuing his long delving on the site of ancient Athens, Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton found the base of a statue bearing the signature of the famed sculptor, Praxiteles. The figure itself had vanished, but an inscription disclosed that it had been ordered by Kleiokrateia, daughter of Polyeuctus, wife of Spoudias. This woman was referred to in the 4151 oration of Demosthenes (361 B.C.), arguing a suit over the will of Polyeuctus, but scholars had not previously known her name...