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...endless marathon. White coats wheel frightening machines in and out of doorways. Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
...first real campaign speech for the 1956 elections, Adlai Stevenson last week was crisp, caustic and effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True...
They climbed the Matterhorn, studied at Oxford for a summer, lived with a family in Denmark. Mrs. Gill filled some dozens of notebooks with odd facts and crisp comments. Last winter they came back home and began walking around North America, traveling comfortably between towns in a 1952 Cadillac, which is laden with complete wardrobes (including evening clothes). They have been at it for ten months and 15,000 miles, and feel they have hardly begun...
...Russian. But he did not seem alien. Like any pianist, he laboriously cranked his piano stool up and down before getting down to business. Then, after the orchestra swept into the big, resonant opening chords, Gilels hammered out the all too familiar response with incredible vitality. His notes were crisp without dryness, brassy without clangor. With his chestnut hair tossing over his face, he played as if he believed that he was waging a titanic struggle against the inexorable orchestra...
...Prepared. At Camp Drake, near Santa Barbara, Calif., energetic Boy Scouts hastily removed the furnishings from their fire-threatened buildings, were professionally piqued when the fire bypassed the buildings, burned to a crisp all the bedding they had dragged to the middle of the parade ground...