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...season. Last night he made up for it with a vengeance. Music of this type must be played cleanly, faultlessly, spiritedly to give the right effect; it is polished, sophisticated music, and needs a polished, sophisticated performance. Dr. Koussevitsky knew the effects he wanted, and got them. In particular, th second and last movements stood out. In the former, the playing was perfect, so much so that it sounded as if one violin, not the entire large string section of a symphony orchestra was playing...
...guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure to their flat chests. In the last panel a tough Yank, spotting well-built Burma, yells: "Hey, you! Hurry it up. I gotta get all them melons back to th' mess hall...
...Last week Al Capp devoted two panels of his regular Sunday strip to a cold public apology, letting Dogpatcher Mammy Yokum do most of the talking: "Sartin parties got their feelin's hurt! Yo' gotta make it right, Mistah Capp!! It's the code o'th'hills...
Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round...
...sure y'don't grab'm raound th'arms like this," the instructor drawled, "or'll slip aout a it. (Slip aout a' it, Lou.)" The silent flunky slipped out of it. Vag squared off with the little shrimp he had picked...