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...finalists finished up at the rate of two a night. Each night, haggard but happy, the contestants went through a ritual, solemnly crossing the silverware at the places of the two absent finalists who were performing that night, sticking a knife into an erect piece of bread at each place and turning the chairs upside down. At week's end, at last they filed onto the stage, where they heard the verdict of the 13-member panel of judges (including Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Robert Casadesus, Emil Gilels). The winners: first Ashkenazy, second Browning, third Czajkowski...
...riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated as one of his favorite writers, H. Rider (She) Haggard, another man who "wrote at the top of his voice...
...cell in the Nicosia Central Prison's Block 8, a haggard young (23) tax clerk named Michael Karaolis told his blackshawled mother: "They're going to hang me." From the next cell Andreas Demetriou, also 23, and awaiting a similar fate, shouted the news to prisoners down the row. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the doughty little Governor of Cyprus, had made a soldier's unpleasant decision: finding "no grounds for exercising Royal Prerogative of Mercy," the two young Greek Cypriots must hang...
Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
...first notable biography of William Hogarth in some 50 years provides the itinerary of Author Quennell's historical slumming tour. But his real subject is Hogarth's model, the alternately claret-flushed and gin-haggard face of 18th century England...