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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who wanted to see "a baseball match" during his current U.S. visit, watched a workout game between West Point's first-and second-string teams. Coach Paul Amen gave the old cricketer a few baseball pointers and a souvenir ball...
Last week, after opening a class for mothers at the local women's club, Carlos Rivera was planning to teach his techniques this spring in nearby towns, and next summer at New Mexico Western College. With 1,672 of El Paso's first-and second-graders already learning two languages, Rivera was glancing fondly at next year's kindergarten pupils, who will learn their "Pasen ustedes" along with their "Excuse me, pleases...
Banquet the British. Leeming's first-and last-action as a belligerent in World War II was to throw ?250,000 (then about $1,000,000) into the Mediterranean Sea one day in 1940. A few moments later, the R.A.F. payroll plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Sicily, and Leeming was made prisoner along with the late Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd...
Differences were happily settled as the two players split the $4,000 first-and second-place jackpot. The matter of which man is the better player will be settled when the two get together next month in an 18-game tour in New York, Mexico City and San Salvador...
Every writer has to look for the bluebird of his own true style, but most of them cage a mockingbird first-and it warbles shamelessly in the accents of others. Hortense Calisher is in the rare situation of having both birds in the cage at once: her first volume of short stories, In the Absence of Angels, gives the impression of being an anthology of compositions by disciples of Marcel Proust, George Orwell and Elizabeth Bowen-and one seriously talented writer named Hortense Calisher...