Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

According to Gill editor Harold Ross originally balked at publishing the drawing because it depicted a naked woman with one exposed breast. Life with Father co-starred a young Elizabeth Taylor and an even younger Martin Milner (later one of the two police-officer stars of the 1968 TV series Adam-12) and received Oscar nominations for cinematography art direction musical score and best actor (Powell). But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on still young still as fresh as the day they were written still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Clarence Shepard Day Jr. (November 18 1874–December 28 1935) was an American author best known for his 1935 work Life With Father.