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...squiggly churches, toyland villages and sunlit harbors, all as gay as a crazy quilt. But Bemelmans' own favorites are his paintings of people in restaurants. "A restaurant," says he, "is a refuge. I sit there floating with a bottle of wine and silently observe. Instead of a bird watcher, I am a people watcher...
Even if the watcher cared not a whit for football atmosphere, he still probably wouldn't have a very good time. Last Saturday during a particularly thrilling series of plays in which Princeton moved threateningly into Navy territory, the screen blanked out. Later the audience was told the power at Annapolis had temporarily failed but by the time the theatre received the image again, the ball had gone over to Navy and nobody in the theatre was quite sure...
...Bird-Watcher Atkinson is better known for other distinctions. As the influential theater critic of the New York Times, he has as much to do with a Broadway play's success or failure as any living man. He has been a foreign correspondent in China, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his dispatches from Moscow. But like one of his own intellectual heroes, Henry Thoreau, Atkinson is happiest close to nature or working with his hands. Ask his religion and he answers: "Transcendentalist...
...Poll Watcher. In Detroit, Mrs. George Atkinson complained that her husband, an ardent Republican, shoved her out of the car when she told him she had voted the straight Democratic ticket...
...election eve in Louisiana, it seemed all wrong. "I've never seen another campaign this quiet," said Veteran Watcher John Gentilich, who runs the Marble Hall Bar & Restaurant across from New Orleans' city hall. As Uncle Earl had said, Russell was better educated and respected the other man's opinion. Maybe that was what took...