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Theirs is not an easy relationship. Glamourous Maria is the illegitimate daughter of a lusty old singer whose tender renderings of songs such as Ah, Moon of My Delight caused whole cities to burst into loud sobs. She is in love with sensitive Niall, who is the illegitimate son of the singer's wife, in her own day a popular dancer. The only legitimate fruit of the muses' union is daughter Celia, who is as sedate and unromantic as a registered ccw-the invariable fate, in such fiction, of those unfortunate enough to have been born in wedlock...
Such salty notions, freely expressed and frequently contradicted, have made Painter John Marin's letters a constant delight to his friends. Edited and put between covers, a selection of the letters and of his rather less coherent essays was on sale in U.S. bookstores last week (The Selected Writings of John Marin; Pellegrini & Cudahy; $7.50). Its publication marked the 79th birthday of one of the U.S.'s foremost artists, who has again & again been called "great...
Babson himself believes that the most important use for anti-gravity screens would be in generating power. Babson's anti-gravity essay contest attracted 88 papers, which Babson read with delight ("It was just like opening Christmas presents"). On the advice of Boston's business panjandrum Charles Francis Adams ("Get a professor to look them over. That will take the smell off it"), he had the papers checked by Physics Professor Howard O. Stearns of Simmons College...
...included for the very good reason that Paul Tibbetts is singing it, but it is one of the dullest pieces the Handel ever wrote. Marguerite Willauer has much better material for her fine soprano voice in "As when the dove laments her love" and "Heart, the seat of soft delight...
...times he still seems a little amazed at the speed of his climb. While talking to an acquaintance some weeks ago, Hilton answered the phone, listened for a moment, then crowed with delight: "I just made half a million today." He bubbled out an explanation that the stock of Hilton Hotels Corp., of which he owns 400,-ooo shares or 26%, had risen five-eights of a point, giving him the paper profit. Then he soberly corrected himself: "No, it was just about $250,000 at that...