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...Scott (255 pp.; Dutton; $3.50), is a seaworthy adventure novel with probably the most ingeniously constructed plot in the whole castaways-on-a-raft class. The story starts with a series of cryptic messages in the agony column of a London newspaper. The key message: "Sea-Wyf: Intend to find you by publishing story of 14 weeks and Number Four. Biscuit...
...attractive blonde correspondent managed to keep her children calm and file her election dispatches for FOREIGN NEWS' Ritual Day. Monica is not one to let motherhood interfere for long with journalism. Twice she has sent us cryptic cables to the effect that she would be out of touch briefly. Each time we received from her, in about ten days, excellent story suggestions with the notations that she had taken time out for childbearing...
...cryptic commentary on current conditions in Argentina may lie in the fact that within a few hours of arrival I have been offered by TIME-starved residents here $10 each for my two recent back issues of TIME-overlooked by customs inspectors. A "freedom-loving," double-talking Peronista regime has made sure that all copies destined for the country "just haven't arrived." All because you printed the truth...
...season's hottest political storms. The big blow began after Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler expressed the opinion that President Eisenhower will not seek re-election because of "a personal situation in the Eisenhower household." When he realized next day that this was quite cryptic, Butler extended his remarks: "Newspaper reports indicate that Mrs. Eisenhower's health is not too good. I believe that could affect the President's decision on making another White House...
Where Sir George Grove in Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read Shakespeare's Tempest") is now interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind...