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...winning the soul of Asia-the souls of the peasant three-quarters of mankind-a Communist Russia has an appeal for Asia which it would be folly for us to . . . underestimate . . . Russia can say to Asia today: '. . . Like you today, I yesterday was depressed, ignorant, hopeless, and tame . . . See how I have pulled myself up to the Western level of efficiency, prosperity and power . . . by my own bootstraps . . . You can do [it] for yourselves tomorrow if you will only take my advice...
Exam-jittery freshmen visited Radcliffe en masse last night, when a tame version of last year's reading period riot hit the quad...
Baby Sitting. Until 1867, ostriches ran wild. South Africans believed that leathers of captive birds wouldn't curl. An Englishman named Arthur Douglass broke that myth. He not only produced curly feathers from tame birds, but also devised an incubator to hatch the three-pound egg. Others quickly took up ostrich raising (some paid native girls to take turns sitting on the eggs). Traders swarmed out to the scattered farms, offering cartloads of oil lamps, stoves and feminine finery in exchange for plumes, fashionable in late Victorian and Edwardian days...
...church and pray vigorously, Candler sank deeper & deeper into alcoholism. Then two things happened. In his private zoo, a Bengal tiger which "had killed two or three trainers and handlers" was scheduled to be shot. Candler asked that the beast be turned over to him and set out to tame him by himself. "I came to the conclusion that his rage was due to fear ... It seemed to me that only one power was great enough to tame him, to drive out his fear-the power of kindness. I spent long hours with him day after...
Faithful and You're the One (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Alongside today's acrobatic baritones, the flame of the '40s sounds tame in two pleasant new ballads...