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Jazz KENNY BALL PLAYS FOR THE JET SET (Kapp). The thought of From Russia with Love pounded out in Dixieland style by a sextet of Britons is enough to make purists quail. But the result is surprisingly lively, with a mean banjo taking the balalaika part. Even more surprising is Londonderry Air in shuffle rhythm, and Isle of Capri with a honky-tonk piano intro. Best of all is Alabama Jubilee, a traditional Dixie item done up brown as a hoecake...
...Manhattan apartment on East 66th Street is being renovated, and as Bernard Baruch held court for reporters on his 94th birthday, it seemed like a sound investment. He quit shooting quail two years ago ("I couldn't keep up with the dogs, the birds or the people"), but he still looks hale and hearty, swims two or three times a week, and recently ankled out to inspect the World's Fair. Mighty quick on the uptake, too. When a young newsman asked the crony of Presidents and Prime Ministers whom he considered the greatest...
...quite true that I am old bones," he began in that gravel voice before which many an editor learned to quail. "My legs are very weak, but I still have something in the way of a head. I am still headstrong, and self-willed at that. I will try to make you a speech. Many shrewd observers will say that I have not had any pattern or continuous theme in my long life. Certainly I have. But I have never been a successful leader. I have always been an apprentice...
...discomfited even as he clambers aboard the homebound liner and begins sadly to plot the next tack in his joyless rakery among available shipboard quail. The very worst kind of American bore descends upon the defeated hero to claim him as the right kind of guy to save a boat trip from being a real drag...
Wilde Theories. T. T. is understood to be Thomas Thorpe, Shakespeare's publisher. But who is W. H.? Encountering this conundrum, scholarly parties have scattered like quail. Some insisted that the poems were not written to Southampton but to William Herbert (W. H.), the Earl of Pembroke. Others pointed out that the initials of Southampton's given name, Henry Wriothesley (rhymes with grizzly), come out W. H. when reversed. Most ingenious of all was Oscar Wilde's theory. For reasons best known to himself, Wilde invented a homosexual figure called Will Hughes, by whom, he stoutly asserted...