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Theme & Variations. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunkenness, Trumpet Player Arden J. Klassa, 34, blamed his troubles on the fact that he looks so much like Liberace, and "a lovely young brunette" was so struck with the resemblance that "we went to a lovely cocktail lounge, we discussed music, we each drank eleven martinis...
HOMECOMING, by Jiro Osaragi (303 pp.; Knopf; $3.75). Billed as a major achievement of Japan's postwar literature, the novel at its best is an unblinking account of the high cost of survival in a defeated country. At its worst, Homecoming plays the old tearjerking Enoch Arden plot to the accompaniment of samisens instead of violins. Kyogo Moriya is a fiftyish Japanese ex-naval officer who sits out the first part of World War II in self-exile in Singapore because of a youthful gambling scandal. There a svelte adventuress two-times him into jail. Back in Japan after...
...international scholars (as well as the Charter Day Dinner and final Convocation) will take place during the week leading up to October 31. Climaxing the series of high-level academic discussions held throughout 1954 on aspects of "The Unity of Knowledge" will be a gathering of 75 scholars at Arden House in Harriman, New York. After three days of closed discussions they will return to New York for one public meeting on the 30th to summarize their thoughts publicly. The following day many of them will undoubtedly receive honorary degrees as President Pusey did last June at the second Convocation...
Born. To Eve Arden, 42, wide-eyed, wisecracking radio-TV comedienne (Our Miss Brooks), and Brooks West, 38, TV actor: their fourth child (the other three were adopted), second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Douglas Brooks West. Weight...
...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...