Word: wonder
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Died. Rush Dew Holt. 49, politically erratic onetime (1935-41 ) wonder-boy U.S. Senator from West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican...
Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...
...real trouble with the French is that the people as a whole have ceased to become Christian without yet becoming outright atheistic. No wonder they are proving useless for either God or the Devil...
Medicine has made spectacular strides in the 20th century, but people may be too impressed with its wonders. Said John L. Bach, A.M.A. press chief, speaking before a gathering of doctors in Hattiesburg, Miss.: "The word 'science' now carries some of the connotations of magic in the nonscientific man's vocabulary. So much has been written on what's new in medical science and what science reveals that it is [hard] for the man in the street to understand where science leaves off and science fiction begins." As a result, said Bach, the patient often reveres...
...Braque's own choosing. "Hesiod's Theogony* has been one of my favorites ever since I read it for the first time in school," Braque explains. "Every line inspires a picture." To capture the inspirations Braque has used a continuous, supple line, adding a note of childlike wonder to the Greek motifs by giving his warriors helmets with weather vanes, picturing chariots racing serenely through the heavens on scrawled bicycle wheels. To critics who note that his drawings for the new book-done over the last 22 years-have a remarkable sameness in style, Braque explains simply: "Hesiod...