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When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...
...Yorkers had been told to give up tub baths for showers, forbidden to wash their cars, urged to go unshaven one day a week; they had been coaxed, wheedled and threatened. All the irritating wartime apparatus of publicity stunts and insistent radio commercials and all the meddling busybodies who liked to demand public sacrifices had been put to work to save the city's dwindling water supply. And still New York City's reservoirs contained only enough water to keep the metropolis going for 90 days. Last week, feeling just a little bit ridiculous but also a little...
Editors at first planned to go ahead with their tub-sharing and fight the case to the highest tribunal if an injunction was served...
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...Bring a Tub. When the tree is found, it is marked. Then, in October, when the bees have stored all the honey they are going to for the season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning [with the tub nearly empty] is as nothing compared to the exasperation of filling a couple of buckets and finding that you have no way of transporting the rest ..." His best haul: 97 Ibs. of honey from one tree...