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...hope;") or playing croquet with flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, the moral of the mythology is that all pretensions and dogmas turn, like the Red Queen, to pasteboard. As Dodgson wrote to one of his young friends: "If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson found many ways to truth. He was absorbed in science, photography, medicine, the theater. He concocted puzzles, invented gadgets...
...luck," sniffed canny Electrical Industry Wizard Konosuke Matsushita, 67, when Rubber Tycoon Shojiro Ishibashi, president of Bridgestone Tire Co., beat him out as Japan's top 1960 moneymaker. "I'll be back on top again." Good as his word, Matsushita piled up a personal income of $988,000 for 1961 (minus a tax bite of $660,000), to head the list for the sixth time in seven years. Rival Ishibashi, down on his luck, wound up seventh with a mere...
...thrill blasting down the straightaway at 180 m.p.h. What's really thrilling is taking a 70-m.p.h. corner at 75-coming through it at the absolute limit of tire adhesion, with the nose pointed perfectly down the straightaway and the throttle flat on the floor. Then you feel like an artist who has spent his life trying to paint the smile of Mona Lisa, finally gets it right with a single flick of his brush, and says to the rest of the world, "There, you bastards, match that!" There are not many who can even come close to Britain...
Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often slighting the larger issues of the war-why it occurred, and what it achieved. Literary Critic Edmund Wilson. 67, returns to the more troubling questions of the Civil War in a book that at first glance hardly seems history. Omitting the usual battle data, he threads together in haphazard chronology a series of essays on the literature of the war. Modestly keeping in the background, intruding only occasionally to make a judgment, he lets the people...
...salary of $145 a week-tithes more than a full share. When church officers tried to press a Cadillac upon him, he refused it with the explanation: "Sure, you gave it to me," he said, "but how will I ever get such a story across to Akron's tire builders? I'll continue to drive that Olds or Buick...