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...might as well not get myself killed looking for it"), the smudgers usually try to get some sleep. That's not too easy to do. If one of the smudgers has forgotten how dirty everything in the groves get and brought his car, he can sleep there and munch on the doughnuts that his admiring girlfriends brought out to the smudge barn. But most smudgers face the night without the car and have to work on the tricky problem of how to work on the tricky problem of how to sleep on frozen ground without being burned alive...
...midst of swimming pools, sprinkler systems, and ultra-modern cigarette lighters should conclude with a picture of this "professional Californian"--perhaps the precursor of a new civilization--sitting in his living room with a .22 rifle ready to blast into eternity the next squirrel that tries to munch from his laboriously-fostered grass lawn...
Died. Charles Munch, 77, famed conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra with elegance and éclat from 1949 until 1962; of a heart attack; while on concert tour; in Richmond, Va. In the 1930s, Munch was the toast of Paris, where he was known as le beau Charles. Summoned to Boston to replace the old autocrat Serge Koussevitzky, the stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch...
...with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
Bare Feet and Bathrobe. When the Orchestre de Paris left last week for an American tour, the usual thing would have been for the U.S. ambassador and his wife to have the conductor and the concertmaster to dinner. Not the Shrivers: they asked all 110 members, from Conductor Charles Munch to the tym-panists, and included a batch of French music critics in the bargain. Shriver gulped down his dinner and table-hopped. His characteristic opener: "Very glad to have you here. What else do you think we should be doing...