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...Dreams. Author White's hero, Peter Domanig, was also raised by Austrian foster parents in Vienna. His birth certificate read: "FATHER: Information refused . . . STATUS: Illegitimate." Barked his foster mother: "[We] found you . . . crawling around in the dirt. . . ." Sometimes his real mother wrote little Peter from the U.S., whither she had decamped after he was born. He did not know who his father...
...Whither Next? Said a German military commentator last week: "The Russians . . . have advanced more & more, exhausting themselves more & more, until they stand now in dead space. . . . More cannot be said . . . because [it] would reveal prematurely the great German strategy...
...that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes...
...Whither the Grocer? Considering the size of the U.S., and the variety of the U.S. diet, rationing was bound to be more complicated in the U.S. than in Britain. Actually it is working a lot better than the gloomy grocery trade had expected. But there will be casualties. Despite the fact that national income is expected to soar to $140 billion from $120 billion, the grocers' gross this year will be down by 40-50%; his profit margin may be shaved from about 5% to about 3% of sales, due to increases in costs. As many...
...popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains the lemming migrations. Overcrowding and lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans...