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...mild man with shoulders like goal posts and an appetite for hard work, long hours and a pipe that smells like an unfrequented sulphur sink in Yellowstone Park. Son of a Hannibal, Mo. locomotive engineer (as a boy he saw Hannibal's first citizen, Mark Twain, explored Tom Sawyer's cave), Nelson worked his way through the University of Missouri waiting on tables, where he studied human nature by observing the reactions of students on whom he spilled hot gravy...
...silver-haired, plump and 72-knew that she had pointed the Greene Line's prow in the right direction. Packets and towboats pushing long lines of barges were carrying more traffic (chiefly coal, oil, steel) over the Ohio than in the golden river days made famous by Mark Twain. There was less romance but more business (19,680,176 tons in the first nine months of 1940). The Greene Line got its share. No longer active as a pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets her two sons run things. Last week...
What seems most remarkable about Thailand is not that the twain never quite meet, but that the East has made so much progress in ways of the West. Thailand's roads are remarkable; her trains run on time. The curious paradox in Thailand's position is that being on Japan's little list for Greater East Asia, she is threatened by an eastern power which has developed western techniques of warfare. Last week Thailand was doing what she could to neutralize her paradox...
...MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION-Edited by Bernard DeVoto-Harper...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...