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What About Paul? Exempted from the retirement rule because they are curial officials are France's Eugene Tis-serant, 82; Germany's Augustin Bea, 85; and Italy's Amleto Cicognani, 83, the Vatican Secretary of State...
...President Kennedy," rarely "my brother" and never "Jack." There are several photos, a framed scratch sheet with Jack's pencil doodlings from his last Cabinet meeting (Oct. 29, 1963), and a photo of J.F.K. accompanied by some words from Tennyson's Ulysses: "Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world...
...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...
...current issue contains a story about an archprotester named Sheppy West who is called upon to sing "My Rotten Country, 'Tis of Thee" at a rally, and offers instead the "ultimate protest," a prolonged belch that "moves up chromatically with a jazz feeling and finishes off with a big tympani effect." The audience is overcome. "It's as if Sheppy has said something personal to everyone and they are with it and relating. He has communicated. It just goes to show, if you got it inside of you, it's bound to come...
...Tis an unweeded garden. And full of sound and fury at that, signifying millions of dollars. And so, as he rested for a month on the profits, hirsute Drum-beatle Ringo Starr, 25, let even more of the follicles sprout, wound up looking like a puckish Rasputin. "I hate shaving anyway," he itched. With that, Ringo took off with beardless John Lennon and their beatlemates, Maureen, the ex-hairdresser, and Cynthia, to spend ten days on Tobago, the storied Caribbean island home of shaggy Robinson Crusoe...