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Writers are passing strange, and those who herd together in writers' colonies are apt to be stranger still. Perhaps the strangest writers' colony on the North American continent is located in rolling corn-hog country on the outskirts of Marshall, Ill. (pop. 2,960) and looks rather like a struggling boys' camp, with two rows of barracks, a central cookhouse-cum-library and a pond swimming pool. Its founder and reigning queen is a bright-eyed, single-minded housemother of the literary arts named Lowney Handy...
...Batajnica military airfield near Belgrade early one morning last week occurred one of the strangest and least expected departures in recent political history. Like twins, in grey suits, trench coats and snap-brim hats, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Russia's Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev stepped smartly into a Russian Il-14. The plane took off without even any warm-up of its two engines. The destination was Yalta, the resort on Russia's Black Sea coast where the Allied leaders held their momentous war conference...
This Way to Egress. In Fredericton, N.B., the Daily Gleaner printed an ad for the Bill Lynch Shows, a carnival, touting "An Extra Added Attraction, a close-up view of that strangest of all living creatures-the Two Legged...
...Venice one night last week, 3,000 special guests-among them 130 music critics, dozens of big-name musicians, counts and Cabinet ministers-followed purple-robed Cardinal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, into the Byzantine basilica of St. Mark for one of the strangest events in its 1,000-year history. Outside, thousands more were gathered around loudspeakers to hear Igor Stravinsky's latest work. Many thought it was a sort of musical murder in the cathedral...
...pair. They called each other "Joey"-the Australian word for an infant kangaroo-but there was never doubt as to who was in whose pouch. Perles used to put his name to Miller's early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...