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...magic. Nickle hot dogs and free beer, the soft midsummer night air, and trees enchanted in the hazy light. Men stroll with their wives on the Mall; lovers lie quietly in the grass; kids running twisting in the crowd; the band plays a slow waltz of the 1890's. On a warm June night 50,000 New Yorkers gather in Central Park to celebrate the good old summertime. "Look at all those people," says the Commissioner. "Isn't it exciting...
...indeed a fact that it is so much more pleasant to be able to stroll across Lafayette Park to endorse or to veto a public works program than it is to have to go through the misery of persuading fifty state legislatures. But that has to do with the personal comfort of middle-aged liberals, not with the quality of the government action that results, and in a time of some trouble, comfort cannot be the sole consideration...
...collecting in the early '50s. They have only four treasured works displayed on the rustic grounds of their summer place on Long Island, but each one gains a new dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps it illuminated at night so she can observe...
SINGER PRESENTS TONY BENNETT (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Tony runs through a folio of songs to remember him by (Who Can 1 Turn To?, Because of You), detouring for a scenic stroll around San Francisco to the tune of his alltime hit, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Repeat...
What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...