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...Hiawatha slid into the Milwaukee Road Depot one morning last week. In the parlor car someone roused the Senator from the exhausted sleep that had seized him as soon as he had boarded the train in Chicago one hour and 15 minutes earlier. Groggily, he shrugged into his overcoat, smiled wanly while his wife scolded him for having left his galoshes behind. Then, spotting a cluster of photographers on the platform outside, his eyes took on a ballpoint gleam, and he headed for the vestibule with a big hello-everybody smile on his face. On the train steps he paused...
Vinay negotiated the hour-long opening act commendably, while Liebl huddled backstage in an overcoat waiting to change costumes with him. Liebl sang the second act in adequate style, and Da Costa turned in some of the best singing of the evening during Tristan's third-act death delirium. All three took separate curtain calls and somewhat reluctantly posed for photographers with Soprano Nilsson, who can outthunder even a perfectly healthy Heldentenore. "I was just afraid to catch the bacillus." said she. "They were all really wonderful, my Tristans." Were the tenors all really ailing? "They said they were...
Poacher & Pro. At 35, Mankowitz has already put his characters into novels (Old Soldiers Never Die, A Kid for Two Farthings) and movies (The Bespoke Overcoat, Expresso Bongo). He has turned them loose in plays, short stories, poems, TV shows and news stories. He also finds time to serve as a successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach...
...clothing-factory manager joined in. "We never know what fabrics we are going to receive tomorrow or the day after. This fall they sent us some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia...
...roadwork would condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three-ton food supply was rounded...