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...Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...been campaigning against defense-related research on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, says some professors have "quit and gotten jobs driving buses" rather than work for the Pentagon. Driving buses--even in Massachusetts, where the Carmen's union makes comfortable men of busdrivers--is no occupation to choose. After the last run, you've got to break out the broom and sweep the bus; all you do all day is drive back and forth, up and down Cambridge Street or Mass Ave. It doesn't require a lot of brains, which is why few professors will ever take...
...Donna del Lago is Home's seventh Rossini opera. Although she has sung such disparate roles as Carmen and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, it is with Rossini that she has had her greatest triumphs. In 1964, she first came to attention in the "pants" role of Arsace in Semiramide. Home has stayed at the top of her profession for 20 years by taking care of her voice. Says...
...future of America." The Roller Skater Rink Operators Association of America, who have been hosting some $3 million worth of skate-a-thons. The Brunswick Corporation, (which, according to its president, held a picnic for MD-afflicted kids. "We promised them superstars, and we delivered. Professional bowler Carmen Salvino, for example."), makers of the sort of athletic equipment used in suburbs not blessed with tennis courts. That's bowling balls and pool tables. At the local station, the Letter Carriers union hands over a check, explaining the money was raised at a softball game between postal supervisors and "the credit...
...fact, with the exception of Yale's own Carmen Cozza, every head coach in the league picked the Bulldogs to grab the third consecutive title, and fifth in the last six during a recent Ivy League telephone press conference...