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Other unearthed P.D.Q. favorites, including the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn, have since been collected on a Vanguard recording. Perhaps the most touching compliment Schickele received was from a lady who rushed up to him after one concert, shook his hand warmly and gushed: "Oh, professor, it was awful, just awful!" "Thank you," said Schickele, "thank...
...largely white audience applauded the verdict. Then the defendants shook hands with friends and happily posed for photographers. Their elation may have been premature. Cook, the Hoggle brothers and Kelley still face a federal charge of conspiracy to deprive a citizen of his civil rights. Three Alabama klansmen were found guilty on the same charge the previous week in federal court after one of them had twice been tried on murder charges by state juries that refused to convict...
...cold, every night it was so cold, and the mosquitoes and bugs were terrible. Once I heard footsteps and four North Vietnamese went by. One of them looked me right in the eye and pointed his rifle at me. I raised my wounded hand and shook my head no. I don't know why, but he lowered his rifle and walked away. He was so young -just a boy, no more than...
Curtis has also made a substantial recovery from the internal revolt that shook it last year. When Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr., whose policy of "sophisticated muckraking" involved the Post in costly libel suits, tried to oust President Matthew Culligan, Curtis dumped them both. But not before the entire organization had suffered. The Culligan-Blair regime was a textbook example of mismanagement. Now that Blair is gone and Culligan has been replaced by John Clifford, a one-time NBC vice president, the editorial operation appears to be calming down. "For years we've heard nothing but the snap...
...walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner of another century, doing her homework by firelight. Writer Ron Kriss surveyed the situation-and spent the night in his office. Ed Shook, stalled in a commuter train in Grand Central, finally made it home to Larchmont in a rented car at 4 a.m. Bruce Henderson arrived at his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., shortly after the lights went out in New York, and spent a well-lit evening just outside the blackout area...