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...accuracy he finds it necessary to declare solemnly that he has never fallen for phony horror stories-or for Red-baiting. To buttress the point, he cites his distaste for Wood-row Wilson's witch-hunting Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who comes into the book as a stray ghost from a poignantly innocent past. The U.S. has lost its innocence about Communism, but still, Michener asks himself whether his story will be believed in all its details by a prosperous and relatively carefree nation. He cites Mrs. Maria Marothy, who now Jives in Ohio. Michener wonders: If some...
...Help Me ... In Dorchester, England, charged with obstructing traffic by letting eleven sheep stray onto the highway, Thomas Horsington objected: "In all humility, the Lord Almighty made the heaven and earth; and even He had sheep that strayed," was fined $2.80 anyway...
...hero of The Fur Person does not start by being a Fur Person. He is first a stray who considers himself Cat About Town. Then he decides to be a Gentleman Cat and find a home. Though his first attempts are discouraging, he perseveres; and his fortunes are reflected in his changing names: Nice Kitty, Tom Jones, Jones, Terrible Jones, Gentle Cat, Cat of Peace, Glorious Jones, Official Philosopher, and, finally, Fur Person...
...Fair Lady (from Shaw's Pygmalion), a holdover from last season that is still blooming after some 400 performances, pouring back profits to CBS, its sole angel ($401,000), which got exclusive television rights. Except for stray seats, My Fair Lady is dated up until September. Other hits from past seasons that are still flourishing are Frank Loesser's operatic The Most Happy Fella, and Damn Yankees, a rollicking tale of sex, baseball and the devil...
Into Boston's Gardner Auditorium last week marched an oddly assorted procession of scientists, politicians and dogs. The occasion: a legislative committee hearing on a bill to make stray animals, unclaimed after 20 days in the pound, available to medical-research laboratories. For Massachusetts, though boasting in the Boston area one of the nation's most productive medical-research centers, is bound by a law which requires that stray animals be gassed. As a result, medical researchers are forced to buy animals which may be stolen pets, or to import them from other states, at considerable cost...