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...symptomatic was the mind and manner of Board President Charles Silver, a rich, onetime woolens salesman who never finished high school. A product of Tammany politics, he says: "If I run across someone that don't like me. I find out why." His performance, though devoted, seemed to consist mostly of being helplessly "shocked" at shabby classrooms...
...acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass and sighed: "If there's any more restful way than this to spend an evening...
Unlike that of Walt Whitman's captain, the fearful task of American scholarship will never be done. Sixty-nine years after Whitman's death, a squad of 14 scholars is at work on a projected 14-volume edition of his collected writings. The first two volumes consist of 707 letters handsomely printed and annotated, and apparently not so much as a postcard to a landlady has escaped. It is a curious collection, not only for the Whitmaniac or the addict of Americana, but for all who find interest in what a genius talks about when...
...Chinese Communists' entire hard-currency reserves are believed to consist of some $300 million on deposit, largely in Soviet bloc banks-not even enough to pay the Canadians. To raise money, the Chinese Communist authorities borrowed a technique developed by the Russians in the hungry 1930s. Overseas Chinese, presenting hard currency in Hong Kong banks, can buy special coupons to send to their hungry relatives in Communist China, where gratified recipients can exchange the coupons for flour, blankets and hams. Desperate Communist officials are scouring the countryside for hoarded silver coins and old jewelry, which can be melted down...
...Then, in a small, careful voice, she sings My Buddy or Till We Meet Again. Afterward the actors go back to stalking each other. But next season things will be different, and Dorothy's role will be fattened. Before long, if things go right, The Roaring 20s may consist of 50 minutes of Provine and five commercials, with screen credits superimposed on a shot of the St. Valentine's Day massacre...