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...them all together, and they spell the biggest, boomingest Mother's Day spree (May 14) since Oedipus wrecked Thebes. On the business side, the nation's retailers, urged loudly on by the National Committee on the Observance of Mother's Day, last week were promoting a variety of stunts to pull in the trade: sketching contests of Mom, 25-words-or-less compositions on "I like my Mom because . . ."; prizes for the oldest grandmother, the youngest, the most fecund. On the straight promotion side, organizations were choosing Mothers of the Year from the 50 states, from which...
...studious, awkward boy whose glasses were forever fogging up, so that on skis he was a menace to everyone around him. But his talent for sketching was obvious, and at 14 he was admitted to the local Ecole d'Art. There he fell under the spell of a "delightful teacher" named Charles L'Eplattenier, who was the idol of his pupils. L'Eplattenier would take them into the woods to draw, and say: "This is classic beauty. Learn every possible form of classic art-and forget it as quickly as possible in order to create something...
Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell...
Molotov stared at Raab through his pince-nez, and let him wait a spell in Moscow. Presently, for reasons that Raab professes still mystify him, the Russians consented to give Austria the state treaty that they had denied it for ten years. Molotov personally went to Vienna to sign the document, and when he did so (with a U.S.-made, gold-plated fountain pen at 11:34 a.m. on May 15, 1955), it marked the apogee of Julius Raab's career...
Larkin, who has been impressive in several relief roles, was belted out in the fourth, when Springfield took the lead with a five run rally. Garibaldi relieved him and snuffed the rally. The Crimson then got two more runs to bring it within one, 6-5, but another spell of wildness aided the final Springfield scoring...