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...boys, each of whom was quartered in a different home. As soon as the youngsters met, they hugged each other, and the oldest turned, beaming at Floyd, and said: "I've been praying that somebody would adopt us all. You're gonna make a swell dad." Most of the difficulties which the Floyds had anticipated melted away. American Airlines obligingly shipped all five children to California on passes. The Floyds managed a bigger house. The children took to them from the beginning...
...Canadian Institute of Public Opinion poll reported that, of voters expressing a preference, 47% were pro-Liberal, 30% pro-Conservative. But the Liberals apparently have lost ground in Ontario, and some Tories, recalling last year's U.S. elections, professed to sense a "time-for-a-change" ground swell in their favor...
Your excellent coverage of the coronation sets new standards of high-level reporting, with the best of historical and political perspectives added for good measure. We share the happiness of a close neighbor who is throwing a swell shindig . . . We strongly suspect the drinks-and possibly the eats-are on us, so we may be pardoned if we view the proceedings with a jaundiced eye, [but] remembering always that our neighbor has lost much more than money in fighting two wars that were ours as well as his own-even before we got into them. So we doff our hats...
With the Renaissance, artists returned to anatomy and, after Pollaiuolo, went in for it in a big way. Leonardo Da Vinci learned through dissection (by the end of the 15th century the church had approved the practice), did countless sketches and cross sections, working to get just the right swell of a bicep, the right organ in the right place. The Metropolitan shows a precise study by Leonardo of a baby in a womb. Raphael spent long hours dissecting; Curator Mayor shows how his later figures lose their smooth look and take on bone structure and strong, adult muscles...
...children's magazines, Publisher Hecht has copied some adult magazines exactly. Three years ago he put out a junior Reader's Digest called Children's Digest (complete with "book condensations" of Pinocchio, Glister's Last Stand, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and watched its circulation swell to more than 500,000. Six months ago he launched Humpty Dumpty's, for children from three to seven. By last week its circulation topped...