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...Howard, favorite haunt of eight generations of College students, may seen be closed by order of the police. District Attorney Garret H. Byrne said last night he would move to close both the Howard and the Casino "to help combat juvenile delinquency...
...Evelyn Fabyan's Bomber's Night, in which a man remarries after his wife is killed in the London blitz, then finds that his first wife has come back to haunt...
Uganda lies at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Population: 5,000,000-and "crocodiles beyond credence." A haunt of buffaloes, hippopotamuses and some 20,000 elephants, Uganda is a picturesque land of volcanos, glaciers, deserts and waterfalls. All-black population ruled by a handful of Kiplingesque Britons and by Mutesa II, the Oxford-educated Kabaka (king) of the Buganda nation. Chief crops: cotton for Lancashire's looms, bananas, coffee, sisal. Capital: Entebbe, a British jet air base three miles north of the equator...
...proceedings are as lightheaded as they are lighthearted. Because the castle is in such an appalling state of disrepair and lacks central heating, Ermyntrude has to haunt it in a muffler. But the other characters pay little attention to her. "A nice little thing," observes one of them, "but rather pale." Castle in the Air is a nice little thing, too, and anything but pale...
...ramps lead to a vast, gloomy hangar built in 1941, when Gander was expanded to serve as a bomber ferry base. Grounded travelers, hung up in Gander for periods varying from an hour or two for refueling to several days for bad weather, have little choice but to haunt the airport's brawling, barnlike waiting room in a bedlam of children's cries and squawking announcements by 20-odd airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town of any size, is three hours away by slow train. Three-day-old newspapers, and long, morose drinks of potent...