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...Miss It. At Swan Lake, N. Y., Motorist Samuel Liebowitz, a stranger, followed a native's directions, made a left turn on a bumpy road in a fog, presently came to a man waving a lantern, stopped, found himself out on a railroad trestle...
Just one look at the squad will convince anyone that Penn in stranger than the outfit which won the Ivy League title (if Navy be excluded) last year, squelching a sweltering Crimson eleven 19 to 0 at Philadelphia in the course of its operations...
Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...PASSING STRANGER-Richard Sale-Simon & Schuster ($2). A surgically garbed intruder goes gunning (successfully) for a Hollywood obstetrician in a hospital delivery room. Another obstetrician and a little detective named Daniel Webster follow a priceless lot of suspects from California to Manhattan, with more casualties and an unethical but astounding conclusion. Full of surprises, slick dialogue, strange people...
Strange to U.S. ears are the songs Bela Bartok listens to. The 300 discs of love songs, recorded in wild, mountainous Herzegovina, have irregular, formless lines, queer vocal embellishments. Stranger still are the heroic songs, long, rambling tales of adventure and battle (the longest takes twelve hours to sing; many are several thousand lines long). They are chanted to a singsong type of melody, half speech, half music, whose short phrases are repeated with endless monotony. Under the voice runs a twanging countermelody, plucked out on the one-stringed gusla...