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Little Cecil Beaton, aged three, hopped in bed with his "Mummie" one fine English morning and ran his eye over the day's mail that lay scattered on the eiderdown. There, in the shape of a photographic postcard of a popular actress, Cecil Beaton saw his fate. "The beauty of it," he recalls in Photobiography, "caused my heart to leap...My passion for Miss Lily Elsie and my interest in photography were thus engendered at the same moment...
Last week, Rayinski marched into court with his saxophone (in case proof were needed of his talent), a briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...
...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...
...urged by its Post Office and Civil Service committee to raise the cost of that American institution, the penny postcard...
Those who want to use the service should file their addresses by postcard when they are located at training camps or overseas. P.B.H. plans to send a complete list of other Harvard men in their areas to everyone who files his address...