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...year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...
...Notebook (Tues. 12:30 p.m., ABC-TV) features Jessie De Both, a veteran of newspaper cooking pages, who sports high-fashion hats while up to her elbows in flour, and wears the determinedly jolly air of a police matron speeding a departing inmate. When not badgering stray males from the studio audience by tying skillets to their shirttails, Jessie hammers home the virtues of her sponsoring products. Sample kitchen hint: don't sew up your turkey after stuffing it, use safety pins...
Anybody who had expected otherwise, who had looked for one of the Joint Chiefs to stray from the reservation, overlooked the character of the military mind and the nature of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Even if some of them have been personally inclined to endorse MacArthur's program (and there was no testimony that any would buy more than perhaps a segment of it, if any, at this stage of the game), the climate of unification and loyalty to" the Commander in Chief was enough to keep the front united. Their answers had a conference-room sameness...
...Hicks. Margaret's best friends in Independence today are the half-dozen girls who lived within a block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known...
...Dopey," "Dearie." Margaret herself can remember one occasion when her father took a firm stand. His daughter, whose conversation even today is generously larded with such schoolgirlisms as 'gosh," "golly" and "dopey," had suddenly taken to calling everybody "dearie" -from her grandmother to some stray cat. Harry at last warned her that every "dearie" from then on would cost her 10? out of her allowance. After losing 40? at one dinner, Margaret was cured...