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...other tales, Author Bradbury cultivates what he calls the sense of "infinite interfusion." A boy is "taken over" by disease germs and himself becomes a bad seed whose touch can kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked...
...botched-up marriage and clogged with vague resentment over the $4,000,000 he will one day inherit from his father, a Connecticut tycoon. In self-imposed California exile, Jimmy measures out his woebegone life in thermos jugfuls of martinis. His chief drinking pals are Fellow Easterners Claire and Blazer Gates, a couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate at Yale, and he treats life as an eternal Whiffenpoof Song. For kicks, the three sometimes bandy about "all the graphic, beautiful four-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon," but the revels turn...
...seems likely, he has been retired at 36, Campy can look back on a career to be envied. Summed up the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith: "In the great social contribution which baseball has made to America since 1946, Jackie Robinson was the trail blazer, the standard bearer, the man who broke the color line, assumed the burden for his people and made good. Roy Campanella is the one who made friends...
...place on Tuesday night, this good grey lady did not quite know what to do with herself. Touted as a "hilarious report on the suburbs," Suburban Revue got about as far out of Manhattan as Central Park. Host Alistair Cooke showed up in skimmer, foulard scarf and blazer, to talk about the wonders of aluminum (spelled A-1-u-m-i-n-i-u-m, Ltd.). Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed...
...Trail Blazer. In Swanton, Ohio, Chicago Motorist Patrick Powers, 70, was finally flagged down on the Ohio turnpike after a long chase in which he swerved along at 90 m.p.h., explained to the arresting cop: "I was reading my road map. I wanted to see where I was going...