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...displayed unsuspected talents. When CBS was stuck for a commentator in its early telecasts of racing, Vanderbilt handled the first few shows capably. "I got a good notice from Crosby," he says. And during an early acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway, he became adept at handling the tablecloth when Hemingway decided to play bullfight. Vanderbilt has achieved an enviable balance between not having enough to do to keep him interested, and having so much to do that it keeps him scrambling. And he has managed what James Branch Cabell points to as the secret of the gallant attitude, "to accept...
...Tablecloth. At 75, Fritz Kreisler thought he had reached the age of "physical debilities and moral responsibilities." His health has been frail ever since he was struck down by a truck in Manhattan in 1941, and his hearing has grown poor. He was fiddling only occasionally; he did not want to "stand in the way of the younger generation," even though he thought that there were "too many crazy mothers who drive their children into careers when they're not fitted for it." He had some advice for kids who are fitted for it: no teacher after...
...overlooking Manhattan's East River. Many of the rewards of his long career-money, books and manuscripts-have gone to charities and public institutions. He was content with other kinds of rewards. Said Fritz Kreisler to his birthday well-wishers last week, while wife Harriet tugged at the tablecloth to remind him not to talk too long: "Accept the profound gratitude of one who will always remain your humble and faithful friend...
...have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with an expression of critical disdain he threw it on the tablecloth...
...Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this spring of 1948 is undeniably a city-but the life of a great part of its people could...