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Alan Wood's biography is not a definitive one. It hardly could be since the tireless octogenarian it has for its subject has already survived his biographer (who died last year) and has, since the book reached the stands, created the need for another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already...
...cigars, makes shoes and textiles, imports rich tourists. Kingston is where Harry Belafonte had to "leave a little girl" in the famed calypso song. ¶ Trinidad (pop. 622,500). the richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each...
...performance that they gave her first place in every event and named her U.S. champion. ¶ University of Michigan Sophomore Tony Tashnick, 19, made all the difference in the 35th annual N.C.A.A. swimming championships at Ann Arbor. After setting a meet record in the 200-yd. butterfly (2:04.2), tireless Tony came back to tie the meet record in the 100-yd. butterfly (0:54.6), boosted the Wolverines to 72 points and the championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully...
...decided to leave the Administration to run for governor of Pennsylvania.* Stassen followed up the call with a formal letter of resignation, received a genuinely warm reply: "In the important posts to which you have been assigned, I have been most appreciative of your sincerity of purpose, tireless energy and dedication to duty...
Dean James A. Pike is like a spike-tough and sharp. Combined with tireless energy, Dean Pike's spikiness has made him, in barely twelve years of Episcopal ministry, one of the most widely heard Protestant voices in the U.S. Last week it made him a bishop-elect...