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...home. Instead, Dumas père demanded to be taken at once to the home of his friend Author-Critic Théophile Gautier. "But, Papa, it's so late," said Dumas fils. "And you've been traveling eight days." But they went, roused Gautier and gossiped till 4. Finally they headed for home on foot, and Dumas pere never stopped talking. When they arrived at 6, Dumas pere immediately demanded a lamp. "A lamp? But why?" asked his son. "To see by, of course. I am going to get to work." Forthwith he started on The Garibaldians...
Martinis & Murder. Today Dame Edith faces the world in a composite armor of shyness, imperiousness and friendliness. She likes her solitude, and she likes her martinis. At Renishaw, she stays in bed till noon reading and writing as a huge wood fire blazes away. Much as she likes elegance, she is addicted to occasional forays into London's East End, where she often chats with prostitutes and barrow boys. On these excursions, her friends say, she creates for herself an underworld dream life. She also follows murder cases avidly, recently dragged brother Osbert to the scene of the grisly...
...daily circulation of 136.302 (146,180 on Sunday), one of the few U.S. dailies with a circulation larger than the population of the city it serves. Earnings in 1954 were about $1,000,000 before taxes, and the paper has a $2,000,000 cash surplus in the till...
FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching...
...talent he recruited the daughters of well-to-do families. Takarazuka flourished in the '305, but it was not till after World War II that it really came into full bloom. Today Takarazuka is a thriving city of 35,000, and the railway (also serving other suburban stops) carries some 700,000 passengers a day. Two of the four Takarazuka troupes (named Snow. Moon, Flower, Star) stay at home, while the others tour the rest of Japan. Showman Kobayashi, now a multimillionaire, also owns theaters, restaurants, a baseball club and a movie company...