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...Corner. In Dallas, a burglar broke into the Third Base Café, took $40 from the cash drawer, loaded up on foodstuffs, left a note of explanation: "The cops told me to get out of town...
...year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often not marking them, and stuffed them indiscriminately into a black folding bag. Today, he can pull that same bag out of a bottom drawer of his filing cabinet and identify the origin of the miscellaneous notes from the different types of paper used in different countries. For years these same notes have been a huge index to hundreds of foreign manuscripts. Wolfson reads them, and when he finds a suggestion of relevant material...
Author Compton-Burnett has used the same revealing piece of wood off and on for 20 years, sometimes broken in a desk, sometimes built into a locked drawer-though once, admittedly, it was widened and made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...
...Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
...which can lay its hands on an astonishing number of top-drawer singers when it has a mind to, filled the cast with stars: Hilde Gueden and Eleanor Steber as the pretty sisters, Blanche Thebom as their mother, Brian Sullivan and George London as the suitors. Ralph Herbert (in a creditable Met debut) was the father, and Coloratura Roberta Peters was an impudent little flirt. Newcomer Rudolf Kempe fanned the Met orchestra to a fine performance, but the playing was so loud that it recalled the time when Strauss himself shouted from the back of a rehearsal hall: "Louder! Louder...