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Poems Every Sunday. But Jean finds herself in her family. "Children run longer than plays," she says, and the five best testimonials to her are Christopher, Colin, John, Gilbert and Gregory Kerr. Seldom have boys been so publicly caricatured by a mother and seldom have five boys picked up so much character from a mother (and father) in private. They are independent and unselfconscious, too mature to expect Christmas more than once a year but too normal to settle for a single Halloween. Every Sunday evening they recite poems?from Milton to Hopkins?that they have learned during the week...
...boys are interested in what Walter and I do," she continues her assessment. "They even ask about box-office grosses. Get the picture? But they're casual, too. Colin has read only about five chapters of Please Don't Eat the Daisies. He says,. 'Maybe I'll finish it?if I have to go to the hospital or something.' As for Gilbert, he is a born conformer, and giddy. Gregory's only 2^. Even so, he's a little slow. His father asked him, 'Where is Mommy?' a couple of days ago, and he looked under the coffee table...
Among the stopping points: the Jewel Song from Faust, Mi chiamano Mimi from Boheme, Signore, ascolta from Turandot. For insatiable Moffo fans, Angel also offers an album of Coloratura Arias (Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis) that are every bit as distinguished, with the single exception of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene: the delivery is splendid, but Moffo sounds about as mad as a hermit thrush...
Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...News Chronicle, "has an expert roving eye." But when British wives and sweethearts began to ask why British menfolk had to wait for an American news magazine to appreciate them, latent male jealousy asserted itself. "On behalf of the Brit ish male," wrote the Star's Columnist Colin Frame, "I resent the implication that we have no judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain's Independent Television News set up cameras on Bond Street near TIME-LIFE'S London office, and after some beauty-spotting (to a background reading of TIME...