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His few close friends temper this estimate. Bernard Baruch, who has known Billy for 30 years, says solemnly: "This man, small in stature, is big and broad and fine in his viewpoints." Author Ben Hecht admits that "Billy has a genius for not making friends" and is "as wistful as...
She lives alone in a book-lined Chelsea flat, rides before breakfast when she can spare the time, puts in an anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and...
Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling...
Buttressing Buddy (an unprepossessing teddy bear) will be 65 Universal-International color movie shorts, 100,000 record albums, a newspaper cartoon strip drawn by the artists of Superman, Buddy Bear dolls, pull-toys, crayons, paint sets, wallpaper, pajamas, toothbrush holders, cereal bowls, lamps, storybooks-"and countless other items of merchandise...
Heeding neither praise nor abuse, Memorial Hall stands placidly between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets dedicated to the memory of Civil War dead and the proposition that the grotesque can be successfully combined with the sublime. Unfortunately time has weakened the proposition. Today Mem's begargoyled exterior may arouse occasional wistful...