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Working swiftly with his charcoal, the artist was nervous and eager, said he wished he had time to do a second one. "Why?" demanded Uncle Joe. He stomped across the office and stared a long time at the portrait. Then he spat and growled: "That's pretty good. You don't want to do that again-that's homely enough...
...Bedfellows." All that, however, was not the end, but rather the beginning of the most publicized domestic spat that ever livened the pages of British history. Britons watched with glee the dirty laundry being washed in public at the palace, and happily seized bits and pieces of it to raise on high as gonfalons of party politics...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
...hour at the border by agitated Communist officials demanding to know where she had hidden her camera and negatives to take such pictures. "As soon as I got back into Hong Kong," she said later, "I wiped the sweat off my brow, looked back at the Communist flag and spat. I'll never go back into that world again unless that flag is torn down...
Opera stars seemed personal friends-or foes-of everyone in town. Once, when Contralto Maria Olszewska spat upon Maria Jeritza during a performance of Wagner's Die Walküre, partisans were close to rioting in cafes all over Vienna. Even while the war-gutted opera house was being slowly rebuilt during the past decade, Vienna managed to put on 600 opera performances a year in other houses (the Met stages about 200, including tours). And the Vienna telephone company offers each day's opera bill, with recorded excerpts...