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...feel too sorry for the Larries, who, a long road trip finally behind them, can once again look forward to wild nights at Scivvy's, the Hoot Owl and the Inside Track on the other side of an eight-hour trek back to Canton...
...much of it videotape, of themselves, some of it comic. Of the 3,500 people who attend the school each year, nearly 75% are couples. While teaching mixed doubles, Braden can be serious enough. But his films and lectures showing male chauvinism rampant on the courts make the women hoot with glee. The men grin and bear...
Died. Dame Sybil Thorndike, 93, grande dame of the British stage; of a heart attack; in London. The witty, compact daughter of an Anglican canon, Dame Sybil insisted that she cared "not a blessed hoot about stardom." Between her first appearance onstage in 1904 and her last, in 1970, she gave thousands of performances, many of them with London's famed Old Vic repertory and her actor-director husband, Sir Lewis Casson. Her favorite role: the boisterous peasant revolutionary in Saint Joan, which George Bernard Shaw wrote expressly for Dame Sybil...
...German contributions, such as Heinrich Campendock's woodcut of a sinister fairy tale world, show the influence of a melancholy expressionism. Max Beckmann turns his acerbic melancholy on German society in "Wrestling Match:" a joyful orchestra accompanies two headlocked wrestlers in front of high society onlookers who hoot from gilded balconies or eat delicacies at tables bordering the fight. In a lighter vein, Franz Marc characteristically uses animal symbolism in his woodcut "Creation." Lighter still is Dadaist Kurt Schwitters' "Composition with Profile," a well-composed, child-like doodling...
California's practicing attorneys are not likely to hoot too loudly at the oncoming generation: they may eventually be taking a similar test themselves. The state bar's board of governors has already approved in principle a requirement that California lawyers take 60 hours of refresher courses on various subjects-including ethics-every five years. Minnesota is just beginning such a program, and Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin are now considering similar requirements. Applied nationwide, such courses should make a start at weeding out or shaping up those members...