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...have a personal theory that might answer the problem of perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites...
Cribber's Ultima Thule...
Thank you for your fine account [March 18] of the cribbage tournament and presentation of the history, theory and practice of the game. But you make no mention of that almost fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand." It is to crib fans what the hole-in-one is to the golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional...
...career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls' college? When, in 1929, the same author's Ultima Thule packed them in to standing room, the audience insisted on the virtuoso's taking a bow. To their surprise, the bow turned out to be a curtsy...
Though it is miles this side of Ultima Thule, her newest book, The Young Cosima, will have allowances made for it. Reason: it concerns the most fantastic romance of the most fantastically romantic of composers, Richard Wagner. Wagnerian freshmen who think the Tarnhelm* was something to steer a boat with will take to the book no less than initiates, for the triangle has a dependable literary as well as musical tinkle. In this case: a great man wanting sympathy, a young man wanting love, an intensely ambitious young woman no more capable of love than a piano stool...