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...have fun for a while." He plans to travel-to Florence, where his wife is buried, to South America, which he has not visited since he sang there in 1916. He plans to visit his daughter, Mrs. George Drew, wife of Canada's Tory party leader, and his grandchildren. But Manhattan and the opera house will see him again. Still a Canadian citizen, Johnson says "I have lived [in New York] too many years to be anything but a New Yorker...
Closing Chest. First published between 1923 and 1936, the stories show variations in skill and manner but they are ruthlessly fixed in mood and point. In The Riddle, one of the earliest, the lid of an old lady's silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones...
...servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks ago he didn't know that his Cabinet colleague ' lived only a few blocks away. He had no hobbies-"except my grandchildren." He was a man who stood upon his dignity. "If there is anything I hate," he told some subordinates in his department, "it is for people to call me Charlie...
...computing machine, Bessie is old: she has been steadily at work since 1944. And she is not the brightest of her breed. Compared to her children and grandchildren (one of whom, Harvard's Mark III -see cover-lives on the floor below in Harvard's Computation Laboratory), she is dim-witted and slow. But Bessie is a progenetrix, a sort of mechanical Eve. By proving what computing machines could do, she started one of the liveliest developments in modern science...
Back to the Cafe. Karfiol's style has grown steadily softer and warmer, but it has not changed. Nowadays he paints in Manhattan, spends his weekends with his wife, son and two grandchildren in Irvington, N.Y., and his summers in Ogunquit, Maine. "I'm saving my pennies to go back to Paris again," he says. "I want to go back to the Cafe de Dome...