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...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...sets the mood with chapter headings that consist of fine, nostalgic bits of flotsam from the Bissell memory (e.g., "No knowledge of music is necessary, merely place kazoo to lips and hum your favorite tune''1). His love scenes, which he plainly relishes, are never tedious. ("'The question is,' I said into the sweet smelling hair, 'whether a man of my age could become a Hotel Executive without any previous training. Your hair smells like springtime in Comiskey Park.' ") And the conversation around the plant sounds almost as if it had been taken down...
...Murphy, while assisting marshalls are Muldoon S. Gwirtzman, D. Levy Halberstam, Sean D. Rivkin, and Michael O'Finkelstein. CRIMSON LAMPOON Aprons, c. Updike, c Cowlick, 1f. Updike, 1f Fatling, 1b Updike, 1b Cuddly, rf Updike, rf Gris, 2b Updike, 2b Basso, ss Updike, ss Gwirtzy, 3b Updike, 3b Hum II, cf Updike, cf Magpic, p Schwartz...
...Watteau of the Heart. The three drift gently down the garden path of self-deception in a bee-hum of amorous unrest then all at once Mahaut is stung to consciousness. With the realization that she loves François, she begs him to stay away. When he continues his visits anyway she confesses to her husband and begs him to save her. To her amazement, the count is not so much disturbed by her news as by the fact that she has shared it with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means...
...variety of fine orchestras. "Each is different," he says. "Each is delicate and complex." Wherever he goes, Cantelli selects his own programs and begins studying scores far ahead-he is working now on a score he will not conduct until 1955. "I think about a score, sing it, hum it. After many months it surrounds me. When I begin to conduct, I feel as if I had conducted this score before...