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...What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet, heads, posteriors is described in formal and scientifically pompous language. Eight paragraphs are required to detail one stair-climbing sequence lasting...
...bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned...
...WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS-William Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers...
...WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS -William Butler Yeats-Macmillan...