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...banker," an aide who bustled up with rubles. Asked how much she had spent, she replied with a laugh that she did not know. "Not much," offered Mrs. Gromyko, wife of the Soviet Foreign Minister. Pat walked across Red Square and posed for pictures in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. Asked if she had seen the President recently, she replied: "Listen, I haven't seen that guy. He called me up yesterday and said, I'm going to be late...
...their works uniformly. What may be true of Iolanthe is not true of Yeomen, what may be true of Trial by Jury is not necessarily true of the Sorcerer. The determination to run through the G & S repertoire over and over agiin, the way Channel 56 runs through Basil Rathbone's 11 Sherlock Holmes films, may not be entirely justified. Perhaps G & S companies should drop the clunkers from their repertoire, and substitute other light opera for them, as Harvard G & S repertoire is beginning to show its age, and might well be allowed to die a graceful death...
...early-form charts on this election would have placed Basil Quirk, 48, an Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls...
Today I'm working on a ship from Poland. I talk to foreign nationals all the time. The other day this Norwegian guy says to me: "You know, Basil, America is so big, it can do anything it wants. But it's so big, it don't listen to the small people." That hit me kind of good...
David Copperfield with W.C. Fields, Basil Rathbone, Lehman Hall. 8, 10, April 14, 15. $1. Free to Dudley Members...