Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto Standke craftily dismisses his cricket bats and similar flasheries, says they have no meaning; the real secret is contained in a doubly locked metal box, which he opens in the presence of no man. He is probably telling the truth, for the best guess entomologists have made about his methods is that he knows just how much poison a starling can take without dying, sprinkles it around while diverting onlookers' attention with his noisy toys. Starlings would not want to go back for more. Perhaps the aluminum tube around his neck is just a long salt shaker full...
...have just been reading the July 27 issue of TIME and particularly the article entitled "The Moment of Truth." Of course I am always pleased when my name appears in TIME, so this is not a complaint. TIME is entitled to its view about Hubert Humphrey even when that view is very irritating to Humphrey. But you have taken the liberty to quote me wholly out of context. Your article says: "Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. 'It's the most dangerous thing in the world,' he says...
When an upset stomach forced an obviously tired Queen Elizabeth to take a couple of days off from her Canadian tour, London's Daily Herald cried out in alarm: THE QUEEN IS EXHAUSTED BRING HER HOME! "The truth is Her Majesty has the colly-wobbles," said the Daily Mirror. When with Gallic intuition France-Soir suggested that "Queen Elizabeth's fatigue and illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed...
...words had their intended effect: the delegates, in spite of his evident urging to collaboration with atheists, backed Hromadka's stand. Hurriedly, a Mclntire "truth squad" printed and distributed a 70-page, documented indictment against Hromadka, pointed out that...
...Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb is one historian who never lets the evidence stand in the way of the truth-as he sees...