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...midwinter vapors, Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who plans to commute transatlantically between the Houston Symphony and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret of his nostrum: "Do you know...
...never saw, swaggers through the transport with a fat roll that he has picked up running a joint in Hawaii. But this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark suffers the agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably...
...start another cycle. "Two years ago," says Psychologist Rohles, "I wouldn't have given a nickel for a carload of chimps, but I can't praise them too highly now." Some of the Air Force psychologists even claim they are afraid to teach the chimps to play poker, for fear they would win all the loose cash on the base...
...genuine Texas intellectual with "a benign poker face," Galveston-born Chancellor Ransom, 52, was educated at Tennessee's University of the South and at Yale, began teaching English at Texas in 1935, turned to administration in 1951. Among other achievements, Bibliophile Ransom has made the university one of the country's richest repositories of rare manuscripts. Since 1957 Texas has picked up more than 100 private libraries and collections, including original manuscripts by famed modern authors, from James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway, from e. e. cummings to A. A. Milne...
...sniggered: "Fear not, I tell myself; the men who emerge as our leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from golfing unless...