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...Nancy, whose foot has never touched U.S. soil, replied: "Abraham Lincoln. I detest Abraham Lincoln. When I read the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot, I was so afraid he would go to the wrong theater. What was the name of that beautiful man who shot him?" "John Wilkes Booth." "Yes, I liked him very much!" Does Nancy like any other Americans? "Your freedom fighters ... the people who have left, and prefer to live abroad." And does Briton Mitford like Britons? "Not to live amongst," snapped Nancy. "I much prefer the French...
From the tiny glass box-"about twice the size of a telephone booth"-on the Grand Tier of Manhattan's musty old Metropolitan Opera House came a rich, familiar voice last week: "Good afternoon, opera lovers from coast to coast." To some 10 million of the radio audience, Milton Cross, 60, was making his soist opera broadcast and winding up his 25th season as announcer of ABC's Metropolitan Opera, radio's oldest and biggest spectacular...
...people could be more different -Emmet Booth living in the kind of nouveau riche luxury that always seems rented, Miranda in the shabby comfort of a Greenwich Village house that is acrawl with Siamese cats and intellectual gentility. What Miranda Page would call a "relationship" seems impossible between two people so alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility...
...woman to bed by crying a few well-timed tears. Like many suspense stories of a more robust kind, the book does not bear much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...
...LOVING EYE, by. William Sansom (253 pp.; Reynal; $3.50) has a hero who, like Emmet Booth, is obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing...