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Last Close-Ups? The Thomas epic, Out of This World, was written by 27-year-old Lowell Jr. in the man-on-a-magic-carpet tone his father favors. The tone still works; the book has already sold 100,000 copies and climbed high on the bestseller lists...
...khaki shirt-sleeves and suspenders, the general prowled the red carpet of his sitting room, conferred with one or two aides, talked by direct phone to Washington, and treated a slight cold with applications of Vicks. Then he faced his stupendous task...
...Christmas morning, Night Watchman Andrew Hislop, long used to such sounds, came upon a startling sight: there were marks on the carpet indicating that a heavy object had been dragged down the altar steps, through the transept, past the memorial to Dryden and the graves of Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, to a side door near the Poets' Corner. Hislop rushed to a phone, called the police. "The Stone is gone," he cried, "the coronation Stone...
...went after a story on the grades of Radcliffe freshmen. "They said they didn't want anything like that to run, because," the reporter states, "it would make Radcliffe look unfavorable compared to Harvard." Once a Moors Hall student phoned in a minor riot, and was called on the carpet by the deans...
...want it?" Rosenfield said yes, made good at the job and later got the chance to be amusements editor. When one of his first reviews praised a local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey that he had a right to express his own opinion and has had a free hand ever since. Now he also covers radio, TV, records and nightclubs...