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...ank you, my de-ear," the old lady replies with an even sweeter smile as she turns away with an alacrity amazing in one obliged to carry, in addition to her years, the staggering great stack of bank notes she has just forced the teller to stand and deliver...
...Like most gypsies, she lets the money slip, but she has invested a lot in diamonds and furs. Easygoing, she wears a dirty bathrobe about the house, with a silver fox cape to top it off. Her English thus far is " 'ello," "goo' night," "hokay," t'ank you." She has no aspirations towards formal Spanish dancing, says (in Spanish): "If I feel like jumping, I jump. If I feel like sitting, I sit." All Carmen Amaya really wants is "to be known as the greatest Spanish gypsy dancer in the world...
...this week's show, Walter Huston, from Hollywood, wrestled through Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U. S.'s No. 1 literary jack-in-the-box, William Saroyan. Volunteer Saroyan mailed in the last of his manuscript Friday night, forgetting Saturday was Armistice Day, a mail holiday. When Sunday came, and no Saroyan, CBS chased him down, had him re-conjure the missing paragraphs...
...following: "Psychology of the Mathematical Aptitude of Children", "Special Pedagogical Method". "The Crisis of Puberty", "Teachers and Educators", "School Museums", "Reaction Time in Tactile and Auditive Sensations", "Verbochromy" (dealing with the phenomena of the mental association of color and words). "Psycho-physiological Analysis of the Orthographic Aptitude", "Tut-Ank-Amen and the Oriental Civilizations". Professor Mercante has also composed a symbolic opera. "Frenos", which was successfully performed at the Colon Theatre of Buenos Ayres...
From the tomb of Tut-ank-Amen and countless other mines of Egyptian treasure there come almost daily, priceless additions to the collections of the pitifullv inadequate and overcrowded museum at Cairo. For three months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...