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...then about to assume his position of Secretary of State) only managed to find about ten minutes to talk with Snow. His questions reportedly did not reveal a complete grasp of conditions inside China. "Does China have much iron?" Rusk is said to have asked. Why yes, the largest vein in the world," Snow gratefully replied...
...life at 25. A Marine first lieutenant, Freeman was leading a combat patrol of about 30 men through thick, enemy-rife jungle. From behind a tree about 40 ft. away, a Japanese soldier shot Freeman in the jaw. The bullet ripped through his throat, passing between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. Doctors doubted whether Freeman would ever be able to talk normally again, but he went through a prolonged course of speech therapy and, being an exceedingly determined man, developed into a strong-voiced orator...
Littlejohn rambles on in this vein for ten tedious pages. The reader, however, can conquer the tedium by letting his mind wander and try to guess whose style Littlejohn is trying to imitate...
...whole canvas tingles with their impatient eagerness for the water. At a calmer moment, two young school-boys-one with sleeves tightly rolled up-play out a grim game of checkers. One of the pictures that Mrs. Kennedy bought. Boys at Holly Beach, N.J., is in this vein, and to some eyes it may look like Jack, Bobby and Teddy on the Cape. The other is a watercolor of the artist's wife; Jackie paid "less than $1,000" for each. Anshutz' later work is mostly full-length portraits of women, pictures that effortlessly evoke the warm drawing...
...have known Tennessee Williams and Milk Train's Director Herbert Machiz for years. From neither of them did I get any impression that Milk Train had a religious content of any marked importance, certainly none in a Christian vein. A psychoanalyst has given me a complete explanation, in Freudian terms, of the play's dramatizing the oral v. the anal; a philosophic friend told me Williams has examined "existence" and "nothingness" in terms of "knowing" as opposed to "understanding"; one poet I know sees "the Angel of Death" as a purely Rilkean angel ("a peaceful presence...