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Seldom has a National Affairs cover story in TIME been done without any help from the subject. In the case of Communist leader Eugene Dennis (TIME, April 25), however, it had to be that way. Three weeks before the story was due Researcher Blanche Finn asked Dennis for an interview. He turned the matter over to his publicity man, who asked Miss Finn to submit her questions in writing. She did. The publicity man took one look at the questions, declared they were "too knowing," and refused to give the answers...
Meanwhile, Miss Finn was turning up fresh leads of her own in New York City. She learned that Dennis' only sister, Nora, now married to a musician, was living in New York. But she did not know her married name. With the help of a single address at which Nora had once lived in Queens, a reverse telephone directory (which lists telephone numbers by addresses), and some luck, she got Nora on the phone. An hour later they were talking together...
Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...
...gamut of seafood. Steak in all its forms can certainly be found at Lloyd's Steak House, and at Jim Cronin's. If you hanker for an after-dinner liqueur, the Oxford Grille has it; and maniacs who would walk a mile for fish and chips, go to Huck Finn's in Chelsea...
...Finn, Bethelem, Pa., senior, has tossed eight touchdown passes and picked up 673 yards via the air. Chuck Nelson, halfback flanker in the Engle wing T version of the standard T formation, has been the best receiver of Finn's passes but Frank Mahoney, an end, has been valuable as a decoy when not on the receiving end of the Finn aerials...