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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (388 pp.)-Edited by Charles Neider-Harper...
Your article last Monday, under the headline CATS CAUSE CONFLAGRATION IN COURTYARD, was interesting, and impressive as coverage of an early-morning fire. But since (as Mark Twain has pointed out) "one of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives," we feel it is important to clarify the two paragraphs which dealt with residents of Kirkland House and their Senior Tutor's cats...
...Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark's old district, Missouri's Ninth ("The Bloody Ninth"), which sprawls across 24 northeastern counties and includes Mark Twain's Hannibal. As the dour guardian of the House's power of the purse. Cannon fights an unending battle. "We've got to keep people from taking more and more money out of the U.S. Treasury," he cries. "Every day they devise a thousand new ways...
...book-loving Soviet public, reported Moscow radio proudly, had gobbled up every copy of a new edition of the works of Mark Twain. Included in the twelve-volume set, which will be published over the next three years: unnamed, unspecified "anti-imperialist pamphlets," not found, claimed the broadcast, in the decadent, bourgeois editions published by Twain's countrymen...
...natural comparison between this tale of San Francisco's Chinatown, of Oriental parents and Americanized children, and The King and I. Once again East meets West; once again there are clashing customs and picturesque ceremonies. Doubtless Rodgers and Hammerstein were properly determined that never their twain should meet; in any case, they operate at such different levels that they cannot. Where, in musicomedy terms, The King and I seemed truly exotic and aromatically blended fable, score and choreography into one. Flower Drum Song has no distinctive elements to blend and is never really exotic because it makes Chinatown almost...