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...small role as Simpkins' aunt-mother, Aline MacMahon presents an exceptionally moving study of a woman who wanted a child, got hi, then found he could never really be hers, although he would always be the son of someone (Someone) not on this earth...
Percussion in a nearly pristine state, but not nearly so frightening as it might seem from the line-up of instruments (partial roster: three bass drums, seven timpani, three xylophones, a glockenspiel, a gunshot machine and five pebble-filled cocktail shakers). Especially designed for hi-fi fans, but one number (Happy Little Woodpile) has pop possibilities...
...small crowd of Canadians and Americans, bundled in overcoats and Macki-naws, stamped their feet and waited along the siding until a sleepy-eyed man in blue pajamas and a maroon dressing gown appeared on the rear platform. He ran a hand through his sparse hair and grinned. "Hi, there," said Ike Eisenhower. "I'm sorry I'm not dressed." He shivered a minute in the near-freezing cold, glanced at the scarlet-coated Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who had just taken his post by the door. Then, with a friendly wave to the crowd, he retreated...
...Walter had rigged up a hi-fi record player, and Toscanini used it to study his old recordings, listening for flaws.* Walter always tried to be around to help : the old man, never an able hand with mechanical gadgets, is likely to jiggle the tone arm and scratch the records. Evenings on the island, the're would be recorded concerts in his bedroom of music that Toscanini had either recorded or broadcast. He would sit on his bed as the music played, eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself...
...That a publisher should see fit to blazon advertisements of Crusade in Europe with the statement 'Written by Eisenhower himself!' carries alarming implications and the historian's fears were hardly allayed last year when he saw the amazement with which newspapers reported that Governor Stevenson wrote hi? own speeches...