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...hitting two home runs in one inning. And last week he ranked ninth in the American League in batting (.304), second in home runs (eight), fifth in RBIs (18) and first in getting hit by pitched balls (six). They sting-oh, how they sting-but they are the sincerest tribute any pitcher can pay a batter...
...some Buddhists have qualms about killing silkworms, production has held at about 500,000 Ibs. a year (v. 300,000 lbs. in 1939). Manufacturers are trying to persuade farmers to boost output, and have inadvertently sold some other people on the profitable prospects of Thai silk. In the sincerest form of flattery, Communist China has introduced an imitation Thai silk for sale in Hong Kong...
...opposite poles, the article on prehistoric Cycladic statuary was an expert and illuminating review of the evolution of Greek sculpture. Please continue to engage men and women of high competence in their fields to keep us informed on the many aspects of our complex and fascinating age. Sincerest congratulations...
...sincerest compliments Pablo Picasso, 83, could pay a friend in the old days was, "he always knew how to touch the sore spot." Not that Pablo was thin-skinned, understand. "People always tell untrue stories about me-let them," he said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman...
Like a Poster. Claiming that the Tories' "modernization" plans for new roads, schools and housing were borrowed from Labor, Wilson said tartly: "Imitation is the sincerest form of political desperation." Why, he continued, "have we heard so little about modernization in the past twelve years? I never undervalue the power of repentance, but it has taken a very long time...