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...Europe one sees, behind an imposing façade of socialist voting strength, symptoms of doubt, confusion and intellectual decay. So far as Karl Marx is remembered at all, there is a growing realization that, far from being an infallible prophet, history has proved him a pretentious humbug, dismally wrong in some of his most fundamental dogmas...
...lions of British letters, grand-mannered poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 67, and her ailing author brother Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell, 62, ensconced in a Manhattan hotel for the Christmas holidays, reminisced about their past troubles with readers. Sir Osbert, who once listed his recreations as "listening to the sound of his own voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would...
...ade. When Dr. Clark started trying to translate his dream hospital into reality, he could figure on an appropriation of only $1,750,000. Working with Dr. Frederick C. Elliott, overall director of the Texas Medical Center, he picked a firm of Houston architects (MacKie & Kamrath) that had never designed a hospital and so had no preconceived ideas. Then he called in as consultant a Chicago firm (Schmidt, Garden & Erikson) that had built 150 of them. One of the innovations concerned the facade. The architects found that they could save and have a stronger wall if they faced it with...
Walton: Viola Concerto (William Primrose; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
...oldtimers gave the new arrival a double-edged welcome. In full-page ads, Macy's hospitably showed an opening-day mob scene in front of the new Ohrbach's façade, then slyly suggested: "If you live through this, you're ready for Macy's." When spry old (69) Founder Nathan M. Ohrbach (rhymes with floor tack) unlocked the plate-glass doors, he barely got out of the way in time before the mob rushed in. By closing, 100,000 people had jammed into the new store, spent more than...