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Short Putt. In North College Hill, Ohio, Charles A. Lasure, 82, rested overnight after a 1,000-mile junket from Ardmore, Okla., then started back the way he had come: by motor scooter...
Akihito, riding his motor scooter around the grounds of his palace in East Tokyo, seemed in no hurry to become a symbol...
...happy together as two old emigrants swapping reminiscences of the old country. But in most other matters they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively, glamorous places to which his scooter carried...
...unfailing puzzle to the working members of the press ... why so many otherwise solid ... dental appliance mechanics, casket designers ... and scooter salesmen should feel a compulsion to aver 'You know, I used to be a newspaper man myself once.' Usually, it turns out that the man covered hockey for the Harvard Crimson, and is now earning his ulcers as a radio account executive...
Monsieur Beaucoire (Paramount), the late Booth Tarkington's graceful romance about a Louis XV nobleman who disguised himself as a barber, was once (1924) a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. Times (not to mention plots) change: today it is a scooter for Bob Hope. Mr. Hope, fortunately, plays the masquerading role...