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Apart from worrying over whether his dashboard clock will tick too loudly, the Rolls-Royce owner has one big concern: Should he entrust his car to just any parking attendant when he goes out to dine? In Hollywood last week, Rolls-Royce owners rejoiced over the news that this had ceased to be a problem. A new restaurant, the Fairchild, opened on La Cienega Boulevard's restaurant row, with two collegiate parking attendants, one of whom handles just any old American car, the other babies the foreign jobs, especially the Rollses. In fact, the fellow fits covered, foam-rubber...
...drummers (on snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...
...really know what makes his best friend tick, but Italian Author Soldati, a movie director as well as a resourceful novelist, knows that a woman can best supply the answers, or at least plant them in the wondering mind. Who was the real Silvestri? The mild, sweet, physically unattractive fellow who wrote poetry, loved nature and lived meagerly off his ancestral estate-or an unsuccessful lover who was willing to use blackmail if necessary to bring his friend's wife to bed and marriage? There are several replies of sorts in this excellent short novel, a book that suggests...
...atoms cleared up, we found a trap door to the next subbasement, the atomic nucleus, which was then completely unknown. Now that this is being swept out a bit, the next trap door leads us into the new world of the subatomic particles and what makes them tick...
...same theatre saw the HDC reach its climax with an unforgettably moving production of Wilder's Our Town, under the inspired direction of Stephen H. Randall '60, who obviously raised his performers higher than they themselves thought capable. I ought to tick off every one of the two dozen or so in the cast, but must content myself with mentioning the Stage Manager of Mark J. Mirsky '61 (who therein displayed enormous progress in acting, an impression confirmed by his expertly elocuted Thersites in the recent Troilus and Cressida), the Mrs. Gibbs of De French, the Mrs. Webb of Dixie...