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Newsmagazine sales rose by 40%, and vendors found they were selling out income tax guides, the Hobo News, and paperbound books from James M. Cain to Stendhal. Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal angrily reported that their copies were being stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
Jungle Counterpane. In Oakland, Calif., a hobo arrested in the Southern Pacific Railroad yards was carrying an electric blanket in his bindle...
...that compare the noble Indian savage to Venus, Federico Garcia Lorca's Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne throbs with Spanish symbolism, while France's Jules Laforgue dreams in Gallic-materialist specifics ("Des venaisons, et du whisky. . . et la loi de Lynch") and Walt Whitman shambles forth in his pagan-hobo way, singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Wedding Present, with Celeste Holm as a lonely spinster who shocks the town by taking in Hobo Gary Merrill...
...would have been a standout in any game. In last week's encounter in the Boston Garden, won by the East 109-97, it was a surprise fillip to fine performances by the greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...