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...line coach had wandered back to the locker room. "We've got all kinds," he said. "Fencers, swimmers, they all wander up. I've get a few slacker-offs, but most work at it pretty hard." He unlaced his shoes and headed for the shower...
Many wives have developed their own special ways of helping out with TIME stories. Part-time Correspondent Bud Wild, of London, Ontario, credits his wife, Libby, with an "uncanny ability to put the finger on me no matter where I may wander," whenever a TIME query comes to their home. In Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions...
...exams. Mr. Wilder heard about this and was disturbed that he had no radio ... He came down to the station one day and asked if he might just sit in the studio. We assured him that this would be possible . . . Thereafter, for the next couple of weeks, he would wander in whenever he pleased (sometimes as early as 6 a.m. after eating breakfast at one of the all-night restaurants in the Square), and listen for hours at a time. Once, when he fell asleep, we put up a sign: "Don't disturb. Mr. Wilder is sleeping to Mozart...
...fought a successful war of limited objectives with Spain without dreaming of taking Madrid. The Japanese fought a successful war of limited objectives with Russia without having to wander to Petrograd. In fact, the war of limited objectives is a thousand times more frequent in the pages of history than the apocalyptic war of unconditional surrender. The defeat of Germany in 1945 was so impressive an event that it has almost persuaded a generation that this is the only kind of war. In fact, the 1945 victory is almost unique...
Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...