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Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...
...play's North of England family relies on the triple diversions of the unblessed poor: booze, bickering and sex. Grandpa belts the brandy. Mum and Dad fight whenever Dad isn't swiving a neighbor lady, and Mum isn't being hauled off to the cooler for disorderly conduct. Their son is an ex-pug, his friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit...
Back in the days when Grandpa went to grade school, geography teachers had no trouble explaining how the earth's mountains are formed. The earth is cooling and shrinking, they told the kids; its crust has wrinkled into mountain ranges like the skin of a drying apple. Modern geophysicists, who believe that the earth was cold when it started its career, have abandoned this charmingly simple theory. Trouble is, they have had little luck developing a satisfactory substitute...
...Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned monopolist (Henry Daniell). The wet cardboard will not ignite. Only Charles Boyer, the actor, ignites. He is a fountain of eternal charm, a foxy grandpa of stage presence, an animated bundle of Continental gestures who makes the typical U.S. actor seem about as vibrant as a hat tree...
...called my mother and soon everyone came running. Smelling salts were searched for, the doctor called, but Migi was dead. The doctor said it was a heart attack. She had taken scarcely anything to eat since Grandpa's death and her heart was weak anyway, he said. He asked Mummy what my grandmother was doing on Grandpa's bed, since he had left strict orders for her to be kept very quiet in her room. My mother asked me what happened.. I said I guessed Migi had come to see Grandpa. I didn't say she had seen...