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...sooner than he had uttered a response, DeLury dipped into his coat pocket and retrieved a plastic case containing five thin cigars of his own. Out of another pocket he snatched a gold lighter emblazoned with the seal of the New York Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association which he helped found in 1935 and has headed ever since. Carefully placing the lighter on top of the cigar case. DeLury sat back in his chair to field questions about his legendary career in New York City politics...
...rules that prevent women from working late hours or lifting heavy loads take "beautiful care of women," New York's former Congresswoman Katherine St. George has said bitterly. "They cannot serve in restaurants late at night-when tips are higher and the load, if you please, is lighter. But what about the offices that are cleaned every morning about 2 or 3 o'clock? Does anybody worry about these women...
...other hand, editors of TV video tape are almost all men. The three major networks have only one female tape technician. In other technical areas, there is only one union film camerawoman in the nation-though with increasing use of smaller, lighter 16-mm. cameras there may soon be more. A few women also freelance as sound technicians for TV and more often for radio...
...delicate emotional balance imposed by his new friend. But then the murders begin. The victims, always women, are found stabbed to death in the surrounding countryside. The schoolmistress herself discovers one of the bodies on an outing with her class. Lying against a nearby stone is a cigarette lighter like the one which she had given the butcher. She slips it into her pocket. Later a police inspector tells her that the woman had been killed only moments before the teacher found the body. Clearly the butcher meant the woman's death as a signal, and the teacher accepts...
...Tchaikovsky Mozartiana that completed the program is an unusual work, most notable in the final Theme and Variations movement. The lighter moments were many: a strings-celeste variation that sounded like bad ballet music, a jazz-like clarinet cadenza, and some frantic runs for the strings leading perfectly to the mock ending. Robert Portney's playing was dazzling in the solo violin variations...