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...York Philharmonic. After a rehearsal in Manhattan, Wife Lillian wanted to know what he had done with his lower incisors. "I couldn't find them," quoth Sandburg. "Anyway, they hurt." But the missing teeth soon turned up in his lady's handbag, and Sandburg talked freely. At fourscore and five years, says he, "I don't go around telling people how to live long. My advice reduces itself to this: watch out about stumbling into a coal hole, and-it's always safer to walk upstairs than down...
...Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
Sivard's "touch of humor" is in all his paintings, though it sometimes takes a jeweler's loupe to read all the fine print. In one painting a Paris streetwalker in all the trappings of her profession, from necklace cross to handbag to ankle bracelet, loiters in her doorway next to the Hôtel Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with...
...court, Lonsdale seemed fatalistically detached. Curiously enough, police searching Helen Kroger's handbag had found a microdot message from Lonsdale's wife and a six-page handwritten letter in Russian from Lonsdale in reply. Wrote his wife: "How unjust is life. I fully understand you are working and this is your duty and you love your work and try to do all this very conscientiously. Nevertheless my reasoning is somehow narrowminded in a female fashion and I suffer dreadfully. Write to me how you love me and maybe I will feel better." In his reply to "beloved Galiusha...
...meetings of the National Education Association (which endorses federal aid), managed to stop the free-lunch program in Houston (where many children now go without lunch). Bertie hit the newspapers at least once a week, and enjoyed it so much that she carried even uncomplimentary stories around in her handbag...