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Their prey was a wispy-haired old fellow named William F. Horn, who turned up in southwest Pennsylvania fifteen years ago with a set of documents he called the Horn Papers. They were full of surprising new findings about Pennsylvania in the 17005. Soon a series of articles, based on what he said were family diaries, began to appear in the Waynesburg (Pa.) Democrat Messenger. The diaries no longer existed; but Horn explained that he had made careful copies of them...
This low-cost luxury flowed from no horn of plenty. It resulted from an Alice-in-Wonderland exchange situation. The official exchange rate is 6.5 Peruvian soles for one U.S. dollar. But because there are not enough dollars at this rate to meet the need, the visitor can sell his travelers' checks on the free market (which is not illegal) for anywhere from 10 to 20 soles...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4 for Horn, K. 495 (Dennis Brain, horn, with the Hallé Orchestra; Columbia, 4 sides). Brain gets brightly through this exhilarating work, with an occasional overblown trill but nary a burble. Recording: good...
Into the Jug. Then, one morning, an Associated Press photographer named Murray Becker arrived in the Mayor's office wearing a mouse under one eye and holding his press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
...generation to generation, and are likely to be remembered as being far more magical than they actually were. Their failures simply go out of print and are mercifully forgotten. Most of the remembered artists, and a few of the failures, are crammed into Illustrators of Children's Books (Horn Book Inc.; $15), a newly published, 527-page history of art for children. A few favorites, like Beatrix Potter and Ernest Shepard (who illustrated Milne's Pooh books), are represented by just one drawing each...