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Best Reading Some Christmas recommendations for children aged seven to twelve: FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER, by F. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum; $3.95). Two children run away from their suburban home and hide for a week in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They bathe in the museum fountain, sleep in a 16th century bed, and mingle with tour groups. Also recommended: Mrs. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, a story of two girls who spend the school year pretending to be witches...
...Basil Ransom had heard of the great Memorial Hall, and the ornate, over-topping structure which was the finest piece of architecture he had ever seen, had solicited his enlarged curiosity for the last half-year. He thought there was rather too much brick about it, but it was buttressed, cloistered, turreted, dedicated, superscribed, as he had never seen anything; though it didn't look old, it looked significant; it covered a large area and sprang majestic into the winter air. It was detached from the rest of the collegiate gronup and stood in a grassy triangle...
...first visit to Moscow, in August, Rademaekers was assigned by Intourist to a spacious room in the Rossia Hotel. The view included St. Basil's Cathedral and the famed chime bells of the Spasskaya clock tower in the Kremlin Wall. "Like other Americans there," he recalls, "I did not complain, and I spent money, which is highly regarded by Intourist." Less than two months later, Rademaekers, while in Paris, applied for another Soviet visa and bought his Intourist coupons through a French travel agency. Thus began an amusing case of confused identity...
...still running. Since then, Gordon has found out that Wayne County Sheriff Peter Buback was illegally selling raffle tickets for his own re-election campaign committee. Buback has since been indicted by a grand jury, is now awaiting trial. Topping off Gordon's electronic exposure of peccadilloes, Basil Brown, chairman of the state-senate judiciary committee, publicly confessed to alcoholism and numerous drunk-driving arrests on Gordon's TV program after the commentator had raked him over the coals...
...Board of Education. S.S. Queen Mary, 33, ended up going to the city of Long Beach, Calif., which will transform her into a hotel and maritime museum. Long Beach's bid of $3.4 million was about $1,000,000 better than any other, said Cunard Lines Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece, and "insures that her character will be preserved." Rejected suitors may now transfer their pitch to Mary's younger sister Elizabeth, 27, who will be looking for a quiet home next year...