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Margery Sharp, British author of the cinematized Cluny Brown, flew to the U.S. for a month's vacation, speculated on the casting of her soon-to-be-cinematized Britannia Mews. Who should play the disreputable Mrs. Mounsey, "the Sow" ("Her person was obscene . . . she sagged with fat . . .")? Novelist Sharp had an idea: "Charles Laughton . . . would be simply marvelous, but I don't suppose that would be quite proper, would...
...governments of both nations are so constituted that they can continue to prosper only in an atmosphere of suspicion and nationalistic club waving. The type of threat which they present is one which by now should be well understood by our government. Yet, these unregenerated banditti proceed to sow the seeds of war, unmolested...
...main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan is tied to the provision that only British firms which had worked...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Park, Alexander Fell Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
...beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter...