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INVESTIGATIONS Micromorality Sam Butler's Hudibras, who divided "a hair twixt south and southwest side," was no more delicate a micromoralist than some Americans in last week's news. Before a Senate subcommittee appeared Frank Prince, onetime RFC official who was bounced last May for his part in a paper-company loan (TIME, June 4), and the man who appointed the man who approved RFC's $645,000 loans to the American Lithofold Corp. Prince said that Lithofold had given him a $100 camera, perfume, crates of oranges, a turkey and a "small ham." But Prince knew...
...moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
...hurtling railroad diner causes many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. Seasoned travelers know a goopish trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...think it's on the border 'twixt Rumania and Korea...
Quipped Columnist "William Hickey" of London's Daily Express: "Alas, poor Oxford! Torn 'twixt atom and rowlock, the sliding world and the sliding seat...