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Last week Candidate Stevenson was playing to the hilt his role of leading candidate, party peacemaker and (with all outward confidence) the certain nominee. He traveled to Bloomington, Ill. (his old home town) for a cucumber-sandwich garden party and a Fourth of July picnic...
These lavender soap-opera elements are neatly mixed by Novelist Howard; skilled writing and a mother-in-law's eye for weakness of character make this novel a cucumber-sandwich cut above the average summer reading for women. It is one more study in the strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...
...match of the tournament at Sandwich, England. England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...
...heavy-set man (180 Ibs.), Tucker leads as dedicated a life as any tenor. On performance days, he rises at 10, has coffee, juice, perhaps cereal, for breakfast. Around 4 p.m., he has eggs, toast and coffee and then nothing until after the performance, when he eats a sandwich. "The day I sing, I'm a stranger in the house. Talking is hard on the voice, so I don't talk." His three sons know better than to talk to him very much on those days...
...long after the guitar player has gone home. "You should come in when its real crazy when the wierdos come in, and bring a pencil because you'll hear some funny things. Why, we had someone the other night who bought two dollars and forty cents worth" (approximately a sandwich and two cups of coffee). But Dave is not really mercenary: "Why, we had someone the other night who asked us whether we were doing this for fun, and I told the man that all we had was altruism...