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Died. Harry McElhone, 67, elfin proprietor of Harry's New York Bar, 5 Rue Daunou, Paris; of heart disease; in Garches, France. "Just tell the taxi driver Sank Roo Doe Noo," said Harry, and multitudes of parched, unilingual Americans followed his directions. Taken to fame in the '20s by a quaffeé society that included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry's was the cradle of the International Bar Flies, a loosely knit organization ring-led by the late Columnist O. O. (for Oscar Odd) Mclntyre...
...money and talent will flow into the cameras. For a change, TV fans will not have to flick dials from one show to another-the big parade of singers, dancers and actors has been programed without any overlapping: ¶ NBC and Rexall Drug Co. will try spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment...
...Audience. Professor Richards' preoccupation is with words ("And words it is, not poets, make up poems./Our words, we say, but we are their's too/For words made man and may unmake again.") And he plays with them through every verse of his poem, using them with calculated elfin obstructiveness to make sure the reader sees nothing but ruins, to make sure that he senses mysteries but does not penetrate them...
...faerie grace and elfin feature She is just the kind of creature Who destroys our resolution Giving place to-evolution...
...There are Billie Dawns everywhere," says Mary, "in Texas, Ohio or anywhere in the world. My biggest difficulty was getting my accent back-after struggling 16 years-to lose it." Mary also had trouble getting her elfin feet back on the ground. "After all those flat-footed roles, I'd forgotten how to walk like a girl. I didn't get that Monroe slouch-which ain't bad, honey-but I don't know...