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Latest Czech Communist invention: "concentration monasteries." Last week Frankfurt's Neue Zeitung reported that obstinate priests who refuse to bow before the hammer & sickle are being "re-educated" in eight government-run camps. Special police are detailed to guard the priests. Discipline is harsh and living conditions bad. The priests are allowed to celebrate Mass, however. Most prominent prisoner: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, now confined to the high-walled, isolated Nova Rise monastery, 20 miles from the Austrian border...
...short, with their latest issue, the Bow Street Aviary has only proved once again what we have always maintained: that it is not, has not been, nor is ever likely to be even remotely funny. Too busy patting their own dogma, touting their own theories, the "funnymen" have come up with another turkey. The Lampoon has indeed gone a long way downhill since the days of Benchley and Williams...
Punches & Bows. Take Lima, and me, if you please. I came back to Peru twelve years ago after 26 years abroad (I was a kid when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease...
...General Douglas MacArthur & family it was a week of catching up on peacetime fun. In his new civilian uniform (double-breasted, grey flannel suit, bow tie and grey felt hat), he arrived at Yankee Stadium to see the Yankee-Browns game, was asked by the announcer to say a few words. He obliged with some old memories of Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson and Lou Gehrig, ended by throwing his favorite punch line with a slight twist: "Unlike old soldiers who never die, unfortunately these men did, but American sportsmanship will never let their memory fade away." Next, in black...
Bartok: Sonata No. 1 (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Making his Bartok bow on records, Fiddler Stern gets forcefully to the heart of this difficult sonata (1921) without losing his beautiful tone. Recording: excellent...