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...refugees from Palestine, the Zerka Zupermen. Macomber's Bombers frittered away an early lead, lost to the Zupermen 20-14. After the game, Ambassador Macomber, 41, in sneakers, shorts and a sweat-stained red jersey, received the victors at an embassy reception, where he served jelly buns, chocolate cake and soda...
China generally has on the cover some doll-like beauty who has undergone the same sort of hideous chromatic transformation that one associates with Soviet color films or color television. This moldy bit of cheese-cake is undoubtedly intended to take the edge off the glaring headline of the lead article: "New and Old Colonialists, Get Out Of The Congo, Get Out Of Africa!" Next comes more confection-- some perfectly innocent feature such as "Green Tea" or "Tree Peonies." Then there are various pictorial articles, reproduced art of old China, sketches of revolutionary heroes, analyses of current events, and everywhere...
...Last Cake. When Angela Thirkell died last year at 71, readers accustomed to spending at least part of each year in Barsetshire felt summer-homeless. But the novelist had left five chapters of a new book, and Writer C. A. Lejeune, former film critic for the London Observer, undertook to pick up the almost invisible plot thread. Fittingly enough, she ended the book with a huge 70th birthday party for Mrs. Morland, the dithery novelist who, readers justifiably suspected, more than slightly resembled Author Thirkell. After the last bit of cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose...
PAINTER WAYNE THIEBAUD, 41, who teaches at the Davis campus of the University of California, paints cakes, pies, ice-cream cones, candy machines and lollipops, and he portrays them so lushly that the viewer's mouth is bound to water. Last week, as his first Manhattan show closed at the Allan Stone Gallery, there was ample evidence that he had a number of connoisseurs drooling as sympathetically over the slice-of-cake school of art as literary critics once took to the slice-of-life. Among those who snapped up Thiebaud's canvases: Manhattan's Museum...
...seven years of jumping in Massachusetts, one of this country's leading parachute centers, there has been only one death--the birthday cake drowning of last September off Plum Island...