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Total Anonymity. Even though the Times has moved into a $13.5 million new plant, its 300 editorial staffers still work in a cathedral atmosphere where everyone whispers, coats stay on, the copy glides overhead in miniature tram-cars and the library is called the Intelligence Room. Times newsmen also work in anonymity. On the ground that only the Times, and none of its members, should make thunder, the paper has never used a byline...
...arriving in the first chapter, you find the author still polishing ashtrays and setting out dishes of salted nuts. But Irish farce is not a sitdown affair; it is the falling-down kind, and must begin on time or a little earlier. It is Good Intentions missing his tram and improving the hour by having a few innocent drinks with his fine friends Sedition and Salvation, and ending up, all amaze, knee-walking in the dark of the moon...
...Catalina Island, which Pereira is completely reorganizing for its owner, Chewing Gum Tycoon Philip K. Wrigley, the grand design leaves room for hardly any autos at all. Local transportation will be generally restricted to electric carts, which will have their own system of cartways, forbidden to automobiles. An electric tram will serve the principal city, Avalon (Pereira staffers are now in Europe studying various types of narrow-gauge railways), and the island will be dotted with small parks within 200 or 300 feet of each other. Outdoor cafés, garden apartments and single-family houses will be designed around open...
...aircraft carrier Enterprise, operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, has had for about a year its own self-contained TV station, broadcasting training films, ship's basketball games. Wagon Tram, Perry Mason, and bosomy French lessons by Actress Dawn Addams onto 85 TV screens on the carrier's closed circuit. The sailors paid for it themselves through bingo, raffles, and so on. Pitying the little destroyer escorts and other pint-sized ships that always knifed around the "Big E" carrying nothing but radios, the Enterprise crew raised more money and installed a transmitter. Last week WENT...
...nezed intellectual, back in Moscow; Anna's husband is a foppish flunky in Saratov. As they become friends and lovers, Anna's unhappiness and self-recrimination grow stronger: Dimitri at length returns to Moscow to face the winter and his wife's domineering. Then, aboard a tram one day, he sees a little white dog go scampering through the snowy streets...