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...member of the War Advisory Council, where he recaptured some of his old voice. Said he to a delegation of war manufacturers who complained of the shortage of copper wire: "What do you want me to do about it? Spin it out of my tail like a spider?" He saw his New Guinea policy vindicated, and lived on to witness the collapse of world relations more threatening than that following Versailles...
Roussel: The Spider's Feast (Paris Philharmonic conducted by René Leibowitz; Esoteric). The composer's most popular work, in an LP première. The music was written for a ballet (vintage 1912) about insects, but it is a work of freshness and real symphonic flow...
...tuatara is not outstandingly intelligent; its brain, only about the size of a green pea, is hardly a brain at all. When strolling leisurely, it drags its belly and tail slowly over the ground. When chasing a spider or a grasshopper, it rears up on all four legs, like an optional four-wheel drive, and makes better speed. Most of the time tuataras are silent, but during the mating season they speak to one another with froglike croaks. Their eggs, laid in petrel burrows (tuataras eat young petrels), take a year to hatch...
Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight...
...sort of story that is really enthralling to see unfold is that which starts with two opposite statements of opinion from two different informants. The spider's web of interviews checking these opinions from sources across the country-converging into a mass of evidence that leads to a conclusion which is usually somewhere between the two-is always apt testimony to TIME'S very wide coverage. The research behind such stories has very much the same appeal as a detective story, with the story itself serving as the final chapter...