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Only Blackpool, formerly Britain's glittery beach resort, remained a nocturnal ink spot. Someone had forgotten to give the "lights on" order...
...Harvard ink-stained young La Farge lost his nickname at last, was president of the highbrow Advocate and edited the lusty Lampoon. When he was 28 his first novel won the Pulitzer Prize. But the name "Bop" still haunted him. It was not until he was 36 that a "woman of unusual quality, great perception and remorseless persistence" forced the hated word across his unwilling lips. "Then," he writes, "and only then, I ceased to be afraid, and then at last I slew the Groton...
Though the intellectuals of 18th Century England mapped out an Age of Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost ancestral estates on a throw of the dice. Or, if a man of reason appeared, he might be almost too rational : Admiral Byng, on the morning of his execution, blandly "took his usual draught for the scurvy...
...ink had hardly dried on the declaration of surrender by Germany when the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, which had already planned a jubilee to celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding by Peter the Great, decided to turn the observance into the first international gathering of scientists on the Allied side since the London conference...
...card-playing Papa Gershwin, Morris Carnovsky blends humility, humor and awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...