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They arrive over America. "This is the kingdom of death," says the wind in a grave voice. "This is the vultures' hideout. Here the monsters are laying eggs, destructive eggs. A single one of these eggs will burn everything, if it is dropped on a town. Women will weep and little children will cry over their dead mothers' bodies . . ." "Bombs, bombs, that's what you mean," stammers the little girl. But one deep, beautiful voice arises from America, below. "Who is that man singing?" asks the girl. "It is Paul Robeson, one of the greatest singers...
...Austin was a village boy (birthplace: Highgate, pop. 300), his dragon-swearing grandfather predicted: "Warren, you'll never amount to anything. You have 20 irons in the fire at once and you never finish any of them." Austin never forgot how he ran out to the barn to weep on the neck of his favorite horse. "When I could talk," he remembers, "I told that horse and myself that I'd never start anything in life I couldn't finish...
...with their child's deafness, says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...faults-and his exuberance bursts with faults, as with virtues-he has put both arms under poetry and bounced hef back on the stage. And the poetry he so manhandles is not a girl with short-cropped hair and horn-rimmed glasses, but a lively quean who can dance, weep and love, and values nothing so much as a warm heart and a glad eye. Writes the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, noting Fry's faults as a dramatic technician: "Mr. Fry may be a little deficient in talent, but he has a touch of genius...
...would like to comment on the article in TIME, Sept. 11, regarding the drafting of doctors, and on the statement of Robert Ruark, whom you quote as follows: "To beat a draft and knock off a free medical education is quite a feat ... I wouldn't weep for [this group] if they all got drafted on private's pay. They owe us some interest on the loan...