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...Sphinx. About his own music Sibelius is cagey. Some have called him Sphinxlike, and he has found the description a great convenience. Nowadays, when English-speaking visitors get too inquisitive about how he composes or when his next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable...
...driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...McCarthy and Mrs. Peterson were chatting they came to the subject of furniture. Said Mrs. Peterson: "Now I hope we can buy some new rugs for the school, since we won't have to pay so much for sterilizations." Questioned further, she told her visitor that during her predecessor's regime, 62 of Beloit's inmates had been surgically rendered incapable of having children, that 22 more had been scheduled for similar operations when she took office. Having verified from the ledgers of the institution that approximately $4,000 had been paid for sterilizations during two years...
...visitor to Robinson Hall will at first be confronted be a series of sketches some of which seem to be nothing more than amplified geometrical patterns. Or others of them may seem like drawings that were started with one subject in the mind of the artist and finished with an entirely different one. The disdainful remark of "Huh, surrealism!" may be stimulated by Mr. Lougee's work. All these peremptory thoughts are actually unfair, for abstractions of Mr. Lougee's type merit a more mature consideration...
...visit to Robinson Hall is sure to convince the visitor that the world of art wil hear more of this arinst...