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...songs are filled with religious imagery--an inn in Nazareth, a golden calf, Kingdom Come. They are about life and death, and about suffering, but in a light, cheering folk style. In "We Can Talk" the mysteries of life are hidden beneath catchy, gay words...
Since he moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas two years ago, Billionaire Recluse Howard Hughes has bought up huge chunks of southern Nevada. Beginning with the Desert Inn, where he and Wife Jean Peters live in seclusion, Hughes has purchased a string of casinos, a flying service and more than 30,000 acres of land on which he envisions building a supersonic jet airport to serve the entire West Coast. Last week Hughes turned his attention eastward. Through his Hughes Tool Co., he offered to buy 2,000,000 shares of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. or a 39% share...
...Where to squire your sweet-heart? In August the Keith Memorial played "Pride of the Yankees," the story of big, brave Lou Gehrig, the man death had cloaked with quickened immortality some ten years before. For the more romantically entwined couple, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire starred in "Holiday Inn" at the Paramount. Dinner could be had for an easy sum at Durgin Park. And if a Harvard man was lonely and alone, or out with the fellows instead of a girl, Boston's Scollay Square beckoned from its Old Howard Casino...
...many university classroom buildings were almost empty, but students and teachers convened on campus lawns or in private apartments to resume their work. One art-history instructor had his class meet him, appropriately, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a class in Oriental civilization gathered at the New Moon Inn, a Chinese restaurant. Leaders of the strike boasted that all courses held outside of university buildings were really "liberation classes"-and issued daily mimeographed listings of time and location for such courses as "liberated French" and "liberated genetics...
Aprille with his shoures sote has arrived, and the lusty Wife of Bath, the boozy Miller, the testy Reeve and the greedy Merchant are all getting happily sloshed once more, along with the jolly Host of the wayside Tabard Inn. To Londoners' delight, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has been turned into a rollicking, raunchy musical comedy. The wonder is that nobody has ever tried to do the same thing before...