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Fifteen-year old Anthony ("writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool ... onlooker at his own ruin") spies Christine ("white tennis costume... dove gray fur jacket ... full of fun") in a tea-room, launching 18 years of unrequited love...
...Look Homeward Angel: mere plot will not do! There is a prevalent cliche that writers like James, who concerned themselves deeply over this method, have less to say than the ravenous Wolfes of this world. May I suggest to Mr. Leonard that a sympathetic reading of Wings of the Dove would reveal to him much more about Human Nature, Morality, the Structure of Society, Psychology, and such like than the whole Wolfe corpus.... --Arnold M. Goldman...
Died. Evelyn Varden, 65, character actress whose career began in childhood, ended in January when she left the company of the London hit comedy Roar Like A Dove; first Mrs. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (other stage credits: Russet Mantle, Candle in the Wind), cinemactress (The Bad Seed, Cheaper By The Dozen), radio serialist, familiar player on live dramatic TV; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Needle. He hooked his mask into the life-saving oxygen system, dove the bomber toward a lower altitude so Maxwell would not die of anoxia. The Plexiglas canopy had been jettisoned in the first attempt at bailout, so, as the plane knifed ahead at 400 knots, Obie's face was seared by the sharp, -30° wind, by whipped dust, bits of wire and insulation. His eyelids rolled back in the fierce air torrent. He dropped his amber-tinted visor over his tearing eyes-but he could not read his instruments again without lifting it. His gloved hands froze...
Burial Plans. It was clear, if it had not been before, that Nikita Khrushchev was a nimble-footed dictator who could skillfully play the cold-war game all the way across the board, from rocket rattling to peace-dove cooing, from the Summit to an all-out economic offensive. "We will bury you,'' he said boisterously in November 1956 at a Moscow reception, and the burial plans are many. And it is equally clear that against Khrushchev's threats the U.S. cannot be satisfied with mere counterprograms to Soviet programs, counterploys to Soviet ploys, counter-propaganda...