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...London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian...
...basketballitis, a highly contagious disease which has been running up & down the Midwest for ten years. One night last week, a record 11,216 people pushed & shoved into Kiel Auditorium; 3,000 more were turned away. The crowds wanted to see unbeaten St. Louis U. playing Holy Cross, a storybook basketball squad that practiced in an old barn, traveled 40 miles to Boston to play its "home" games, and became 1947's team of the year. Holy Cross had been beaten only once in 29 games...
With that, Billy began to "get organized for luxury." He was divorced by Fanny ("Our marriage had been thinning out for several years anyway"), and he married Aquabelle Eleanor Holm. He bought his five-story town house and later picked up two "storybook" estates 40 miles north of Manhattan. (One of them he plans to use as a shelter for displaced European children...
Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
...hardiest rivals were Little Pierre, a sleek Labrador also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled...