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...Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied: "Know him? I shave him every morning...
...hero requests compassionate leave-he wants to see his dear old mother before he blasts off. Request granted. On the way home the astrochump gets airsick-he doesn't like flying, but there wasn't enough time to go by bus-and is soothed by a beautiful stranger (Dany Saval) with a foreign accent, who calls herself Lyrae and can read his mind. Since the plane carries reading material of obviously greater interest (plane schedules, comic books, etc.), the hero concludes that Lyrae must be a Russian spy. In panic he calls the general and the general calls...
Sophia was bright but not a particularly good student. "I always felt a stranger among the girls who had a father," she says. "They used to talk among themselves. You know how children are sometimes, very cruel. So I used to go to school either at five minutes to 9, when everybody was almost in, or at 8 o'clock, because nobody was there." On the door of her house, her schoolmates scrawled the word stecchetto (little stick) because she was as thin...
Nicest of all is the generous helping of old favorites like "Georgia Brown," "Stormy Weather" or "Poor Wayfaring Stranger." In songs like these, the 16 pleasant voices of the group are confident, controlled, quite professional, and ever so much better than the ragged Whiffenpoofs...
...occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired, I did not resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn of Irish freedom in 1924. Said he last week: "I scratched my name on the wall of Cell 59, but I suppose time has erased it now." Also well remembered: the exercise yard...