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...familiar scat type of clowning to give a gentle, appealing and restrained characterization. Whether he flies a kite, sings to an inchworm, talks to a dog or transforms his thumb into a little girl, Kaye succeeds in conjuring up something of the charm of a child's storybook world: that magical realm of slippered kings, pouting princesses, dragons and serpents, flowers that waltz, and porcelain figures that fall in love...
Allende, in a storybook escape, got out of the country. Two fellow labor leaders were later jailed again and are still in prison...
Switzer's storybook wallop took away some of the brilliance of the pitching battle waged by the Crimson's Pat Groper and Tuft's Dave Lincoln. The two had allowed only one run asperse in the first 12 frames with Groper pitching 11 consecutive scoreless innings after a shaky start. ab p h po a o Smith 6 1 2 1 1 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Johnson 5 0 1 18 1 0 Walsh (C),c 5 1 1 9 0 0 Akillian 4 0 0 2 0 0 AlDonelat...
Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (Jan. 13, 1877): "We have not the least objection that rough boys be the heroes of a storybook...