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Notes & Bars. In San Quentin, Calif., Warden Clinton Duffy, hoping to keep the boys happy with a disc jockey program broadcast over the prison public address system, named among available selections: Time on My Hands, They Didn't Believe Me, Till the End of Time, I'd Do It All Over Again...
...setting classics to 4-4 jazz time and adding banal lyrics, Mossman has made more money rewriting masterpieces than the original composers did in writing them. His most successful swipe was Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still...
...says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
...with his mind made up, but he is more nervous than ever. His face twitches as he talks. He walks stiffly because of a leg wound he received fighting in the underground. To get across his Gaullist message to the French people, Malraux works daily from 7 a.m. till dinner as De Gaulle's unofficial public relations counsel ("his left-hand man," say friends). In his bright, modernistic apartment at the edge of Paris' Bois de Boulogne, he is entrenched behind a plain wooden table in which he keeps a loaded revolver ("I am high on the list...
...There's an arcade in Naples that they call the Gallería Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had a dome of glass, but the bombings of Naples shattered this skylight, and tinkling glass fell like cruel snow...