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...side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...
...Publisher Scribner was unduly worried. Retitled The Wind in the Willows, the Book of Toad has proved one of the sturdiest juvenile successes ever known. In Britain alone it has sold 1,338,000 copies; in the U.S. it has never been out of print. Year in year out, it keeps its appeal in literature's most competitive, most unpredictable market. For children, as an editor of juveniles noted recently, "are the most difficult of all readers to write for . . . The editor's real job is to help the writer bridge the chasm between the child...
...many ways the sturdiest of the McGartys, though an adopted one. was Big Rene. At 15, built like a lady wrestler, she already had behind her a notable career of streetwalking, entertaining G.I.s and breaking out of reformatories. Her philosophy of life was simple: "I hate work...
...bright, cheery comments on life under Stalinism, it takes a positive effort of will to recall that this is the same country of concentration camps and secret police terror reported by other observers . . . [Salisbury] has been giving a startling practical demonstration of how to use America's sturdiest pillar of journalistic respectability as a transmission belt for the official Soviet propaganda line...
...Bulldogs representing the thousands of sons of Eli, the seventh in the line of Dans had the most distinguished air, the sturdiest back, and the longest pedigree. And as a pup he was well behaved, friendly to both Yalies and opponents...