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...readings were a smash,. and so was the reader. A stocky little fellow with mouse-brown hair and the eyes of a day-old calf, Voznesensky stumbled onstage like a lost delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
...Next day, as if to prove his point, the Seamen's Union executive council, non-Communists all, voted an end to the 45-day-old strike that had idled 26,000 seamen, tied up some 900 ships, and may already have cost the British economy perhaps as much as $300 million. There was no reason not to, since the seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners...
...best children's records on today's market, even those in pop jackets, owe something to another day-old games, old rhymes, old writers, even oldtimers reading very old yarns. Choice selections...
...angels talk so much that he can seldom get a word in. And what would he say anyhow? He has failed his exams, so he cannot go to the university. He hates his own "girlish hands and all beaked nose thrusting out blindly like a day-old bird's." He is a Roman Catholic in dull bourgeois Belfast, where the "papist" minority moves with silent loathing among the majority Protestants -"the Prods." In short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early...
Yowling dissonantly in the arms of his Aunt Elizabeth as the Archbishop of Canterbury sprinkled him with water from the River Jordan, Britain's 46-day-old Viscount Linley was christened David Albert Charles in the domed music room of Buckingham Palace. The ceremony over, David's proud parents, Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, set off to finish up their preparations for a Christmas en famille at the Queen's Norfolk country home, after which they planned to take a second honeymoon in the West Indies-sans the squalling viscount...