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...Giles Wetherill's money is in peat-producing but his heart is in knife-collecting, designing and throwing. Wealthy sportsmen and maharajas have their hunting knives custom-made by him. He can pin a squirrel to a tree at 20 feet...
Sirs: The comments on Sigmund Freud (TIME, May 23) could hardly have been made by an ordinary book reviewer, because a tricky and greatly misquoted theory was handled quite truthfully. I usually expect to hear some crackpot sound off with the squirrel cage statement that all Freud's dream translations and all Freud's theories...
...pads, is grimly occupied with the job of making saves. If one of his teammates makes a slip, it is too bad, but if a goalie makes a slip, it is a score against him and his team. Target of whizzing pucks, he must be nimble as a squirrel, sharp-eyed as a hawk. And since a perfect performance for him is a shutout, he works for naught on the scoreboard...
...matter of graduate degrees, he said, students wrote theses not because they had anything new to say but merely because it was required of them. Excepting the field of natural science he described this activity as being like "The gyrations of an intellectual squirrel in an academic cage...
...first act is an introduction to Grovers Corners and its inhabitants. During the course of it Mr. Craven calls upon a little squirrel of a professor to give the geological history and other recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...