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Last Entries. Forrestal's entries in the diary dribble off around January 1949. Last week some of his close friends pieced out the Forrestal story with unpublished recollections of his last months.
In The Heart of a Man, Novelist Simenon poses a standard fictional question: What does a man think, feel, and do when suddenly forced to face the imminent reality of death? Unfortunately, the answer in this case tends to dribble away in leaky flashback reveries with seamy Gallic overtones.
In the initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There...
Another new rule gave Penn its third goal as the second half opened. Last winter the N.C.A.A. soccer rules committee decreed that a goalie could no longer dribble the length of the penalty area before getting rid of a ball. The goal-keeper can now only take four steps before...
Reproachful Looks. In thirsty Arizona, the most successful is Charles Barnes of Phoenix, a first-class flying man who, with 17 airplanes equipped or being equipped for rainmaking, had seven projects going full blast from Texas to California. Another big rainmaker is Irving Krick of Pasadena, Calif., who has projects...