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Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now, are you?" a correspondent asked. "Those flies just came off those dead over there in the ditch...
Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...
Backed by his colleagues, Judges Swan and Chase, he denied all the other objections raised by the eleven to the trial-the way the jury was selected, the kind of testimony and evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...three-year-old paddling around the salty Swan River near Perth, Australia, Marshall showed an early liking for water, has made it a second home ever since. In 1946, at the age of 16, he perfected his stroke under ace Australian Coach Tom Donnet. In the 1948 Olympics in London, Marshall placed second in the 1,500-meter event. It was at that point that the 152-Ib. youngster met famed Yale Swimming Coach Bob Kiphuth, decided...
...Despite guest invasions by famed Choreographers Michel Fokine in 1925 and George Balanchine in 1930, Denmark's company has largely resisted Russian influences. The Danes saw their first Swan Lake in 1938, when it was already 60 years...