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...Gomberg, is a task roughly as taxing as "a strong man trying to juggle eggs without crushing them." Brother Harold is even more pessimistic about the ill wind he blows so good. "You have to have the tenacity of a bull." he says, "and the sensitivity of Alice in Wonderland; you have to learn to live with frustration...
...night the Expo becomes a wonderland. The exhibit pavilions close; the lights go on. Little points of light flicker in the spheres of the Atomium. White illuminated stars line the upper avenues and the fountains play in many colors...
From time to time, Mullin will lovingly revive the best-known figure in his sports wonderland: a mournful Dodger Bum, with his tattered coat, scraggly beard, patched pants and woeful cigar. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Mullin briefly spruced up his Bum with a sports shirt and dark glasses-but quickly went back to the stogie. After the Dodgers lost the 1953 World Series to the Yankees, Mullin had his Bum futilely chasing a light-footed brunette in a parody of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn ("Thou still unravish'd bride...
...found your "Walter in Wonderland" story [about O'Malley and the DodgersApril 28] interesting, amusing and, most of all, clarifying as to why "Dem Bums'' took off for Los Angeles...
...Lady Be Good (with brother Fred). She was the toast of Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance, Kokoschka never let her see the painting, and she skipped the last two sittings...