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Uniquely among TV quiz shows, Twenty One is shrewdly designed to test the same odd combination of many-sided learning and the gambler's art. Packaged and owned by M.C. Jack Barry and Dan Enright, the show may pop questions in any of 108 categories of information that range across the board of knowledge. Moreover, though the contestant stakes none of his own money at the outset, he risks his winnings every time he chooses to play...
...Philip, 6, and asked his wife: "Is Philip getting unusually healthy or have you been putting rouge on him?" Mrs. Kaufman laughed at the suggestion. Soon Dr. Kaufman realized that all his five children had some malady, and he described its symptoms to Territorial Epidemiologist James Enright in Honolulu...
...Enright decided that it was erythema infectiosum, literally, "infectious blushing," also called fifth disease.* The Kaufmans were not alone. Soon hundreds of fresh cases were reported, most from "the big island" but many also from Oahu...
...MOMENT BEFORE THE RAIN, by Elizabeth Enright (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), is a collection of 18 short stories with a sharply etched image on nearly every page. A woman emerges from childbirth feeling "like a huge sea shell washed up by the highest wave, empty but still ringing from the tides." There are trees hung with grey moss "like . . . the wigs of old witches" and an old-fashioned store that is full of "ribbon, cloth and clean middle-aged ladies: dry goods, indeed." The shining words of this gifted writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last...
...Hall's "A Face in the Mirror." Lyon Phelps has a Garrison Honorable Mention, "In the Morning, After an Ice Storm," which is weakened by a self-consciously chatty manner ("Of course, an ice storm/ just doesn't happen every weekday..."), and doesn't quite come off. Finally Charles Enright's "For Hastings" is a competent elegy that sounds too much like so many other elegies to be very good...