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When he finally got around to putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...
...they sit on chairs level with himself. Since shyness is a Siamese characteristic, the visitors often found themselves unable to talk in such a presumptuous position; King and subject would sit in silence, both blushing. Siamese tell of Ananda's visits to little villages near Bangkok. He would summon up all his courage, walk up to an old woman and ask, "Grandmother, how go things with you?" The woman would probably burst.into tears at the thought that she had been addressed by a King, and Ananda would stand before her, eyes downcast and silent...
...TIME Correspondent Thomas Dozier and Yakov Malik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, occupied adjoining chairs recently in London's Savoy Hotel barber shop. Part way through their joint shearing Dozier heard Comrade Malik summon a page boy, to whom he gave half a crown and instructions to get him a copy of TIME. When the boy -returned with a copy, Malik took it, looked at the cover and gruffed: "This is not it; this is last week's issue; I've read that one. Don't they have a new TIME up there...
Lehman headquarters does more than answer KI 7-7600 calls. Those small red lamps attached to various buildings around the College are also part of the telephone system. These, when lit, summon University policemen; near each light is a telephone connected like the light, directly with the switchboard. Even when there is no particular trouble brewing, and there usually isn't, the policeman must call in once every hour during the day, and every half-hour from midnight to dawn. When there is a really big disturbance, like last fall's Square riot, the switchboard becomes an intelligence center, directing...
Saturday afternoon, with dusk coming on, Panama's mild-mannered President Daniel Chanis screwed up his courage to summon Colonel Jos´ ("Chichi") Remón, chief of national police, for a painful interview. The press had been pounding hard with charges of police grafting in the control of slaughterhouse and bus-line operations. After the latest blast in the Panama American, Chanis had made his decision: Remón must...