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...says Mabel?but not in the early hours of her day. Then, like the heroine of Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out???on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave." She is still engagingly casual about her work, although, as she has remarked, "I consider any writer...
...interruption, while hers do not. All the Kerrs usually have dinner together, even if there is an opening. Walter and Jean are lucky if they can get a bite in edgewise, which may go some distance toward explaining why Walter Kerr's reviews?as the New Yorker has pointed out???are stuffed with wistful, gastronomic images. He's famished...
...Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb his swing and loft the ball to the green. His opponent, noting the club Harrison has used, will select the same one, blithely swing full-out???and send his ball soaring far beyond the green into a trap...
...counterpoint with Arthur Tillman Merritt, theory with Walter Piston?but he spread his interests straight across the academic boards, and laid down a strong foundation of culture to support his musical taste. He also found time to play the piano for silent movies at the student film club, tried out???but was rejected?for the job of second Glee Club accompanist (years later Bernstein, who never forgets, came to Harvard to conduct the Glee Club; during rehearsal he turned to one of the two pianists and said: "You have the job I wasn't good enough...
...turns pink; at 40 ft., it becomes black. Orange disappears at the same depth. Yellow lasts until about 120 ft., where it begins to turn green. Below 25 ft. color loses about half its value. Once, at 150 ft., Cousteau cut his hand. The blood spurted out???green. At 55 ft. the blood turned dark brown, and back at the surface it was red. Cousteau has included more than 100 excellent underwater photos in the book, about 20 of them in color...