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Last week the story of the pardon played out in the kind of twist with which Story Spinner O. Henry liked to end his own tales. Jack McKenzie, account executive for the Cain Organization, a Dallas public relations outfit, let it be known that he had whipped up the whole furor as a plug for a client's television show. The Gift of the Magi, a musical version of the sentimental, enduring O. Henry Christmas story. Said successful Pressagent McKenzie: "Greatest thing I ever...
...After watching some older kids try out for the New York City Parks Department's yo-yo championship, Stephen Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion...
...Mystery Spinner Erie Stanley (The Case of the Glamorous Ghost) Gardner, 68, customarily dictates his thrillers at a rate of up to 10,000 words a day, often working on as many as seven at the same time. Last December the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, reviewing two of them, hinted that such mass production could come only from a factory, implied that A. A. Fair, Gardner's best-known pseudonym, was a real, live ghost. After Gardner's indignant publishers, William Morrow & Co., all but put Lawyer Perry Mason on the case, the newspaper this week politely allowed...
...theater and the deck of a ship his stage. Joseph Conrad?monocled, with salt-rimed beard, at the wheel of a clipper?is too romantic a figure for modern fashion in literary heroes. Yet in his work, Conrad was not a romantic any more than Melville was a mere spinner of "sea yarns" or Shakespeare only a writer of historical pageants. His themes were the classic themes of character and fate, and his genius made the ships on which he sailed as tight as the "wooden O" of the Globe Theater...
...wanted to limit imports to 225 million yds. overall in 1957. Japan held out for its 1955 level of 270 million yds.-half in yardage fabric, half in readymade goods. When U.S. textilemen suggested more Japanese concentration on yardage cotton goods (dominated by more efficient U.S. producers), Japanese Cotton Spinner Spokesman Yasuo Tawa said tartly: "They are giving us broad fishing areas where there are no fish, and shutting us out of narrow seas which are full of fish...