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...Women have taken over the responsibility for making America tick," Jordan said. He suggested that the seminars should supplement courses in the curriculum by providing "Knowledge of realities." They will be open to Radcliffe students only...
...year-old Wayne Tepper of Brooklyn went to the movies one evening last week, leaving Wayne at his grandmother's house, happily playing with Granny's tiny gold wristwatch. When they came back, Wayne had a stomachache but no watch. "Wayne," asked his mother, "where is the tick-tick?" "I swallowed it," said Wayne. "You threw it out of the crib, didn't you?" she asked hopefully. "I eat it, Mommie. I eat it," said Wayne again. "Poor tick-tick...
Convinced at last, the Teppers rushed Wayne to a doctor, who put him behind a fluoroscope. There, sure enough, was the watch in Wayne's stomach. The doctor advised waiting. After three days of waiting for the tick-tick to emerge, the Teppers consulted another doctor, who thought an operation might be necessary. That afternoon Wayne's daily X ray showed a new development: the watch had descended from his stomach to his intestines. Next day the watch was returned to Granny by nature...
...spite of his obvious hero worship, Biographer Manchester makes an honest if superficial effort to explain Mencken's decline as a critic of manners, morals and letters. But he still leaves undone the harder job of explaining just what made Mencken tick. Like every other book on Mencken to date, Disturber of the Peace is at its best and most informative when it quotes from its subject's own machete-swinging prose...
...glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest of the Wells story (falling back on pseudonyms where living people are scandalously involved). In short, it makes of "H.G." pretty much what a Baedeker would make of Alice in Wonderland...