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...worth a few points among Harvard's Bogart-film lovers to know that Dooley Wilson played the piano player in Casablanca. Is there a bonus for knowing that Dooley Wilson couldn't really play...
Because manufacturers and retailers do not have to compete for the consumer's ruble, there is little incentive to produce attractive, well-made goods or to improve design. If a factory retools for a new product, the lost production time may well cost its manager his bonus for overfulfilling the sacrosanct quota. As it is, at the end of every month he is limp from shturmovshchina, the frenetic, last-minute battle to beat the quota...
...evocative power of Cummings' "I Sing of Olaf" ("You think . . . it makes you worthy of control to have control./But my heart is bigger than your heart/And I will outbleed you.") Yet it lacks the swiftness and compression for which his incident cries. We find in this issue, as bonus, a poem which reads from the bottom up. An interesting conception, but contentively, I'm afraid, just a smidgeon more down...
Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...Arctic, and now New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 74, was headed the other way, saying, "I don't want to slight the South Pole." He will spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. "I only hope...