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...From Pall to Pernod. When Charlie was eleven, the year he learned to drive a car on the farm, a worried teacher told his father: "Charlie is capable in any direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater glory of Twenty One, the fear proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college...
...traveling fellowship-the same one that Mark had won at Columbia in 1919-and went to Cambridge University to research his dissertation on 18th century English Poet William Cowper. But Cambridge proved frustrating, and before the academic year was out, he left abruptly for Paris "under something of a pall, without fulfilling certain obligations." According to his Cambridge landlady, who has a transatlantic eye on his TV winnings, the obligations included ?22 ($61.60) of unpaid rent...
...flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot robs Dogpatch of its homey, day-to-day, ferocious charm. Something extra is frequently needed...
...Adlai Stevenson was not impressed. In his speech in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he called again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
...soon swept the rioters off the streets. In the debris stretcher-bearers found a shoe containing a human foot. There also were 47 dead, almost all of them rioters destroyed by the terror they had fed. Nearly a hundred stores and buildings had been sacked and burned, and a pall of the smoke of burning loot hovered over Kowloon. Governor David ordered the first curfew in Hong Kong's history. Military forces and police moved in to mop up a fiercely resisting core of rioters, arrested 3,000 Chinese suspected of provoking or leading rioters...