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...their language will grow." In schools he visits regularly, students often ask to skip lunch or gym to attend a storytelling, a high compliment in these days of wall-to-wall TV. Teachers find O'Callahan not only stirs total attention, but inspires students to read. As Newton P.T.A. Officer Jessica Davis puts it, "It is extraordinary to see a storyteller with the tools of an art centuries old captivate a group of children who thought they'd seen everything...
...percentage of people account for an inordinate number of claims, actuaries figure that if a client makes a claim, the statistical chances rise that he will make another, and so his premiums rise to reflect that risk. Consequently, many agents echo the advice of fellow Broker George Peters in Newton, Mass.: "Buy insurance to cover you for that one catastrophe. Don't put in for small claims. It's the frequency that hurts...
...teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break out of her square cultural mold, but we know that John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed...
...held a two-night mock Democratic convention in the New Lecture Hall. Because this convention was the only game in town, some of us decided to add a happy note by placing Norman Thomas in nomination alongside the more obvious choices, such as New York's governer Al Smith, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, and Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. You never saw such amateur but high-class skulduggery on all sides. The Smith adherents brought in a Boston political claque, which crowded into the balcony and roared every time Al Smith's name was uttered, a thing...
DIED. Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84. English novelist and short-story writer who probed the small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature...