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...elect journeyed by Air Force Convair to Northampton, Mass., to celebrate his birthday with Daughter Julie and her new husband, David Eisenhower. The birthday dinner was a chicken casserole with broccoli and cheese, followed by a store-bought chocolate cake with 56 candles. Pat gave him a pair of cuff links -"All his cuff links were torn off in the campaign," she explained. There were ties, socks and handkerchiefs from Tricia, and from his staff a small bronze statue of an Irish setter in token of the dog they plan to buy him. The Nixon White House menagerie will also...
...POOH PLAYERS are back, offering their blasphemous rendition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each made the more blasphemous by this company's astonishing capacity for off-the-cuff stage gibberish. The few children in attendance continue to despite the Pooh Players and all they stand for, but the adults sit by in tolerant amusement. Lewis Carroll would make mincemeat of his grave...
...barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened, was once heard to remark, in his off-the-cuff style of humor: 'Say, this is good.' " And the menu of San Francisco's Señor Pico describes one bestseller (beef stew) with this line: "It's a real son of a bitch...
Hollow Tie Clasp. In the end, it was his audacity that led to his conviction. When a disaffected KGB agent betrayed him, he was caught red-handed with the tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...
...initial blast was the revelation that The Waste Land was originally titled He Do the Police in Different Voices. There is no clue to what Eliot meant by this unfortunate title. An off-the-cuff guess is that Eliot was alluding obscurely to cockney slang or to a vaudeville routine. Another speculation is that this was a working subtitle expressing Eliot's preoccupation with authority: one of the main theological theorems of The Waste Land is that God, who utters words like datta (give) and shantih (the peace that passes all understanding), speaks neither sense nor English but, like...