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My favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet...
Invented in 1970 by a Cambridge University mathematician named John Horton Conway and popularized by Mathematical Games Expert Martin Gardner in the pages of Scientific American, Life is a kind of solitaire played by one person on a checkerboard or graph paper, or indeed any gridlike field that contains adjoining...
The apparent smoothness of the latest succession was deceptive. In 1972 Spencer Kimball had open-heart surgery; 15 years before that an operation for throat cancer left him with only a part of a vocal cord. Although he arrived at the decisive meeting of the twelve with a doctor'...
Man lives by illusion, dies by reality. So sayeth O'Neill. The derelicts in Harry Hope's bar come from all of life's fallen ranks −army officers, Harvard men, journalists, pimps and floozies.
Since August, the paper's writing and editing have been carried out on a modified version of the A.P.-Hendrix CRT. Gone from the newsroom is the clattering of typewriters. The loudest sounds now are the occasional howls from reporters still baffled by their futuristic machines. A CRT has...