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...more often throughout Eastern Europe. In Hungary, a recent short novel described the torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when it's in orbit...
...York-New Jersey-Connecticut area remains the center of paddle-tennis activity. Such country clubs as Greenwich's Stanwich, Rye's Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts...
...where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack; in Rye...
...into the American community of new-generation intellectual Jews and makes from it a sad-funny tale. In a college campus presumably similar to Montana State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix...
...another exchange has been moving at a furious pace. At Chicago's Board of Trade, biggest and busiest commodity market in the world, pit brokers have perspired through two weeks of record business. On one day, they traded an alltime-high 270 million bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybeans-an amount almost three times greater than last year's average. Twice the market's opening had to be delayed an hour in order to catch up on paper work, something that had never happened before in the board's 118-year history...