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Midnight in Moscow, and Vassily Aksyonov, like many young Soviets in the 1950s, would find himself in some dark cellar listening to American jazz from pirated records cut on used X-ray plates. "Jazz on Bones," he and his friends called that marriage of music and medicine. "From the moment I heard a recording of Melancholy Baby . . ." he recalls, "I couldn't get enough of the revelation coming to me through the shadows of ribs and alveoli, namely, that 'every cloud must have a silver lining...
While Le Clip is not likely to overtake Swatch anytime soon, the watch has already been honored by knockoff artists. Three factories producing Le Clip copies were recently closed down in Hong Kong. Company officials hope the half a million fakes in a crown colony cellar never see the light...
According to Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief Frank Murphy, an investigation is presently being conducted to determine the cause of the fire that presumably began in the common cellar of Uncle Bunny...
Perhaps in Vienna, where the diarist makes one of her more bizarre entries: "Laszlo Szapary and Erwein Schonborn . . . both had just dug themselves out of the Palais Schonborn, where a bomb had crashed into the courtyard before they could reach the cellar. The building is pretty battered and they are now fishing among the wreckage for Erwein's shooting trophies; he had many ivory tusks mounted in silver, as well as two stuffed orangoutans." The power of Vassiltchikov's observations lies in her restraint: "These last days innumerable inscriptions in chalk have appeared on the blackened walls of wrecked houses...
...Quakers' victory leaves them at 9-4 in the Ivies, a full game ahead of Princeton and the Red (both 8-5). Despite the win, Harvard remains in the Ivy cellar, a half-game behind Brown...