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...issued in America for the first time in a single volume. An accomplished playwright, novelist and gadfly, Montherlant at one time or another has irritated nearly everyone in France. Misogyny, though, is the specialité de la maison-like fetuccine Alfredo served with a silver spoon...
Workers in the yards of the Osaka Shipbuilding Co. intently watched the initial trials of one of the most curious craft ever launched. Floating in the lee of two massive unfinished cargo ships, the contraption was shaped like a midget's pagoda with a giant's spoon balanced across the pinnacle. On cue, a small motor inside the bright yellow and white plywood superstructure began pumping sea water into the bowl of the spoon. As the bowl filled, it dipped down until, with a splash, it dumped 26 gallons of water back into the bay. Empty, the lightened...
...Sears in Massachusetts and Bronson La Follette in Wisconsin. "In previous times, you had to be born in a log cabin to be elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct advantage. This would seem to indicate that the tradition of the Adamses, Elihu Root and Henry Stimson is perhaps even greater today...
...Well, far be it from Life Magazine to imply that you're a drivelling cretin with scarcely the mentality to spoon through the mush we feed you from week to week...
...peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire, a needle and thread hidden in your...