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Ethel Barrymore, 67, first lady of the U.S. theater, sped from Hollywood to Manhattan-but not to Broadway. What sent her packing was grandmotherhood, her first (see MILESTONES). She was not homesick for the theater; she liked Hollywood fine-the weather, the sunsets, the Pacific, the moon. As for cinemacting: "It's so much easier than the stage," said she, "it's a shame to take their money...
...process of meeting and sizing up most of the newsworthy people in his territory, Sherrod interviewed Mahatma Gandhi, who told him with a twinkle in his eye: "I had assumed that Americans were to be the new citizens of the world, but I find them all homesick lads." Gandhi's opponent, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, leader of the Moslems, was not so easy to get to. In fact, he wanted a year's subscription to TIME as the price of an interview...
...When a homesick G.I. longs for something "as American as the corner drugstore," the odds are five to one that the store he is thinking of is a Rexall store. And the odds are going down. Last week the United-Rexall Drug Inc., biggest in the U.S., floated a new $11,000,000 stock issue. With the proceeds, United will buy the 19-store Renfro chain in Texas (for $1,200,000), will enlarge and remodel the 541 stores it already has as well as some of the 10,000 affiliated Rexall druggists...
Toscanini, voluntary exile from Italy since 1938, had flown to Italy at his own expense, to conduct six concerts without pay. He had obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S. He sighed to friends of New York's climate and California's wines, and whispered wistfully over a dish of spaghetti: "But you should taste the spaghetti in the United States...
Philippa's first-prize Manhattan Nocturne, written when she was twelve, has been performed by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, the Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Said Philippa: "I was in Mexico on a vacation trip with Mother, and I was so homesick for New York that I wrote it to express what I felt." The second-prize Rumpelstiltskin is from Philippa's almost-completed Fairy Tale Symphony...