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...deep within, and the only outward signs of it are a rumble here, a new wrinkle there. Last week in Honolulu there were rumbles of new ideas. Few reached final determination; some were flatly rebuffed. But for the A.B.A., the mere fact of discussion was a sign, however faint, of forward motion. Items...
Gone Fishing. Equally haphazard is Shelburne's general store, a zany montage of barbershop, country doctor's office, dentist's cubicle, post office and taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages...
...wall in the background, including two (designated nos. 2 and 5) in which one can see a suggestion of a gun. Although the other three images are more questionable, Marcus is certain both 2 and 5 are valid. For each he has what he considers independent corroboration--a faint suggestion of a figure in the ITEK photo for the #5 man and an unmistakeable silhouette in yet another picture for the #2 man. The silhouette is from a picture taken by Philip Willis--a retired Air Force major from Dallas--and is perhaps the hardest to refute...
...firm, precise, sensitive, adept at molding the rich chiaroscuro of the Concertgebouw sound without blurring the melodies or jostling the rhythms. Under his baton, the orchestra is not yet burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts the full, darkly romantic music that seems to echo the Dutch temperament-Mahler or Bruckner, for example-he is superb...
...happened in northern Maine. At one point, a defense lawyer mocked a Negro witness in the patronizing accents of Catfish Row. Objection by the prosecution. "Sustained," snapped Johnson. "Such remarks have no bearing on this case." At another point, a Government lawyer thudded to the floor in a dead faint. Pandemonium. Unfazed, Johnson intoned, "The other lawyers will carry on." They did. Conner was acquitted with all the fairness that can be wrung out of the jury system in Alabama...