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...will go out quietly and mop it up. Then he or she can return to the room, and no one will know who did it.' They covered their eyes. The teacher heard tiny footsteps going to the door. It opened and closed. Pause. Opened and closed again. Pitter-patter of little feet back. After a decent interval she said: 'All right, children, we can open our eyes again.' Blinking, she made her way through the door to see that all was sanitary again. Outside the door were two puddles and a note: 'The Phantom strikes again...
Peroy in action is proof that a fencer, like a good bottle of Moselle, can improve with age. Fencing with his pupils, he shows the ease and grace of an expert. Keeping up a running patter of French-accented instructions, he catches their every mistake and makes his scores with a minimum of effort. His patience with novices--he will repeat a single fundamental movement ten times if necessary--comes from remembering his own initial awkwardness. "It took me two years before I even knew what I was doing," he remembers...
Swathed in a cocoonlike gown of gold lamé, she came wriggling out of the wings like a caterpillar on a hot rock. At the mike, still undulating, she launched into a typical Dandridge patter song called Love Isn't Born, It's Made. Sample...
...still passionately fond of fishing and sailing, and runs off to the country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...
...Head ("The Continental"; Capitol). "The Continental" is Renzo Cesana, intimate-patter man of TV (TIME, Nov. 5), who speaks these man-to-woman lines as if he were holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a swooning female in the other. Women will giggle, men guffaw...