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After a year, I left film school and left New York City. My Voice lingered unsold in the racks of the Waverley Smoke Shop, Some time has passed, and much history. But social values don't change in three years--particularly those held by egoists. Even after one term of Nixonism, with another to come. Don Siegel's director cult is still ready to defend Dirty Henry for its mise on scene. Even if the film craze has slowly puttered out, every adolescent artiste still yearns for an Eclair or an Arriflex. The Village Voice has gotten slightly better...
...named Shelley Plimpton, who has a voice laced with clear-toned innocence, sings a ballad about Frank Mills, a boy who "wears his hair tied in a small bow in the back." It seems that Miss Plimpton lent two dollars to Frank after meeting him in front of the Waverley and then never saw him again--and now she loves him. It captures a teeny-bopper's romantic vision with an appropriate unembellished lyricism...
Died. John Anderson, 75, 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters ("Anderson Shelters"), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...
...ends; ("Men, I think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.") Sir Walter Scott, defending Scotland's ancient laws against Bentham's passion for reform, warning that local tradition could not be erased without damage, writing the Waverley Novels as tracts for conservatism, as reminders of the moral debt that the present owed to principles of liberty and order won by the past; Disraeli, the supple and imaginative politician, yielding with brilliant grace to necessary change, thwarting the mechanical innovators...
...others: Walter E. Fernald State School in Waverley, Mass., established in 1848; and the Elwyn (Pa.) Training School, established...