National Affairs: THE DO-LITTLE 85th CONGRESS

"What in the world is it?" asked John Dolittle, gazing at the strange creature.

"Lord save us!" cried the duck. "How does it make up its mind?"

"It doesn't look to me as though it had any" said Jip, the dog.

"This, Doctor," said Chee-Chee, "is the Pushmi-Pullyu—the rarest animal of the African jungles, the only two-headed beast in the world!"

—THE STORY of DOCTOR DOLITTLE

DOLITTLE would have loved the do-little 85th Congress, First Session. Domestic necessity pushed the 85th, after much hemming and hawing, into passing the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction....