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...Uncrackable. Syngman Rhee is the walnut of Asian politics. Brown, wrinkled, iron-shelled, he calmly resists the tremendous pressure of managing his tragic country...
...Cover) If U.S. Presidents could be plucked from every walnut tree, complete with silk hat, inaugural speech, and one year's salary absolutely tax free, 999,999 out of a million women would hesitate a long, long time before getting one for themselves.* Even little girls seem to regard the White House with extreme caution. While small boys consistently plan to become President when they grow up, few junior misses waste any time at all plotting to become Presidents' wives. The giddy human female seldom loses her grip on reality. The life of a First Lady...
...fastest-growing little town in the country" became the cliche of the year. The population of Pomona, Calif, jumped from 38,000 to 42,300 in a year as aircraft plants (Lockheed and Northrop) rose among its walnut groves. Livonia, Mich, increased in size (from 17,000 to 25,000) as the result of Ford's $50 million tank plant, a new General Motors plant, and other industries which came in their wake...
...crumbling collarbone he wore a pearl as large as a walnut. His right hand held a large jade cube, his left a jade sphere. Jade ornaments stood by his feet, and nearby were two jade idols. Popeyed and sporting neat goatees, the idols looked like Mayan sun gods. Dr. Ruz's hunch had paid...
...Casey went abroad. He traveled to the U.S. in all the luxury of cabin class, but he atoned for this by asking "if he could have his meals with the crew." In New York (for the production of Within the Gates'), he landed in a world of "walnut and mahogany reflecting the gleam of glass and the glitter of silver," a world more "fit for Arnold Bennett. . . than . . . Walt Whitman." At which point the reader suspects that it fit O'Casey like a glove...