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Paying the Price. Ironically, Los Angeles' indifferent newspaper readers also stand to benefit from the loss of two papers. In the last ten months, the fat and lethargic Times, which had the habit of substituting sheer bulk for journalistic merit, has begun to show new life. It is even bulkier than before, but it is a far better newspaper. The Times has beefed up its Washington coverage and joined hands with the Washington Post in the organization of a news service. It has also added four fulltime political editors, two of them stolen from Hearst. Foreign coverage has grown...
...well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant...
Tchin-Tchin is magical. It is also fragile, but it is saved from wispiness by Leighton and Quinn. Excellence is an acting habit with Margaret Leighton, and her Pamela is expectably perfect. Anthony Quinn brings his subtlest gifts to Caesario, a character in whom anguish and sentiment sprout like city flowers between slabs of concrete. As the Pickett...
Time Out for Music. Bagrit himself attributes much of Elliott's rapid rise to the autonomy he grants his division heads-a habit that has stimulated prideful competition among them. This system has the added advantage of assuring Bagrit, who as a young man picked up spare cash by playing violin in the Royal Philharmonic, ample time to indulge his taste for music, art and philosophy...
...declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like many Yemenites, Ahmad chewed qat, a narcotic shrub similar to marijuana, and switched to morphine in 1953-heroically breaking the habit six years later...