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...plummeting from a collapsed fire escape (the woman died, but the child survived). Last week the police came up with enough evidence to bring arson indictments on 35 of the fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal bureau: "This is just the tip of the iceberg...
...trumpet's delivery. She also does the show's most affecting number, If Ever Married I'm, dropped from the matchless score of Kiss Me, Kate. Mary Louise has a sultry approach, the allure of sharing cocktails at twilight, and she is a kind of smoky torch song. Anita Morris is stunningly lovely, with some of the impish mischief of Gertrude Lawrence and a delicate edge of satire in her voice that Porter would have relished. There are 32 numbers in all, and a good half well repay the hearer...
...Neff and Halevy had with Menachem Begin after his party's victory. Neff thought the security man guarding Begin's apartment looked familiar, and, says Neff, "he was. It was the same guard we had encountered a few days before at the office of Shimon Peres. The torch had passed. It was a new story...
Restaurant critics usually have no background for judging for quality of fare. Home economists never learned to cook in graduate school, and as teachers they carry the convenience food torch. (Everyone learned how to make doughnuts from refrigerator biscuit dough in Junior High.) Cookbook writers generally glean their material from their predecessors, in the process often introducing shortcuts which result in a poor subversion of the original classic. They also normally forget to give credit where credit is due--perhaps out of embarassment, for many of their chefs d'oeuvre were lifted directly from similar collections or, alternatively, from magazine...
After the wheel was invented, some cave dwellers undoubtedly complained that ruts would ruin the footpaths. Many millenniums later, in the 1840s, farmers of New York's Suffolk County rebelled against another recent invention; they tore up railway tracks, put the torch to depots and caused wrecks by loosening rail ties. The iron horse was evil, they complained; its sparks set fields afire, its bells and noisy clatter shocked cows into withholding milk, and its soot soiled laundry. Decades later, the first autos were denounced for scaring horses and for spewing objectionable fumes...