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ROBE OF HONOUR, by Alexander Cordell (384 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50), is a costume romance, and usually such books have almost no resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
...again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza. Not confined like Khrushchev to Manhattan, he motored up to Hyde Park to visit Franklin Roosevelt's grave. Tito even maintained his aplomb after stumbling down a flight of marble stairs while hurrying to welcome Britain...
Underground Airport. For all its glitter, Idlewild will have plenty of competition before the airport boom abates. Many of the new airports boast functional rather than beautiful buildings, must first use their money for such expensive necessities as lengthening runways-at $1,000 a ft.-to meet the 10,500-ft. jet requirements. But some airports with money to spare are experimenting with concepts as dramatic in jet age design as Idlewild...
...their knees and promised God that if the plague was spared them, they would present the drama of the Christ's Passion every ten years. This is what they are doing. They aren't striving for the perfection of Hollywood with all its top stars and glitter. Why then do you criticize as if this were Hollywood? This article gave me an aching heart! You have made little of what is a big thing to the people of Oberammergau, for you could not see past "1,600 painful amateurs...
...Office Glitter. Tibbett always had a faint distrust of grand opera's grand pretensions. The music of Jerome Kern, he used to argue, was as good as many an imported classic. When critics roasted him for including Old Man River in a program of operatic excerpts, he responded by including it in almost every recital he sang after that. He also laced his concert programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter...