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...marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...
...White House lawn provided a cornucopia of attractions for the twin firmaments of the Washington week. Jacqueline Kennedy and Empress Farah (see THE NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said...
...that it ever really languishes in her absence. Mr. Lucian Russell is a likeable fellow as Robin Oakapple (that is to say, the real Ruddigore, only in disguise, you know). And Mr. A. Thompson, who plays Oakapple's foster brother, Richard Dauntless, makes the most of one of Gilbert's few comic lyric tenor roles, and achieves a creditable hornpipe. So too, does Mr. Edward Schmookler, the villainous Sir Despard Murgatroyd (Oak apple's real brother, if you get what I mean). Schmookler is got up to resemble Mr. Hyde, and he rubs his hands, rolls his eyes, and flashes...
...most exciting and also the most contest today should be the mile, Harvard's Mark Mullin meets Robin Lingle. Lingle beat Mullin earlier in the year, but today could be different...
...Newman, a partner in the Cambridge. Mass., acoustical engineering firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Without it, the slightest sound can prove enormously distracting. Typical is the commuter who reads a book amid the accustomed clatter of the 5:42, yet is shaken out of bed when a robin chirps in the silence of a country morning...