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Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...love. His clear young voice splashed like April sunlight on the sober stones, on the serious monks, and it put new life in them. They even changed their names to suit his fancy, and soon were quite unconsciously calling each other Brother Door, Brother Bad. Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that she had a boy the same age as Marcelino...
Bells Are Ringing, ding dong, all over town. With Judy Holliday and J. J. Shubert in a real money-winner. At, curiously enough, the Shubert...
...first question is easy enough to answer. The Lowell House Bell-Ringers are a small group of people who like to ring bells. And they have some very nice bells to ring. Their Russian set of zvon--as opposed to carillion or conventional ding-dong--bells consists of seventeen clangers weighing between 22 pounds and 13 tons. Up to now, at 12:30 on Sundays and once every other week before the famed "high table," the bell-ringers have gotten some nicely coordinated noise from their bells in the cloud-cuckoo-land over Lowell House...
...complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly: "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have time...