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...moment that most actors would give their profiles to experience, a scene that almost any imaginable entertainer would play to the echo. Alec showed up 25 minutes late. The hotel doorman was somewhat upset at the sight of the filthy old tramp with the messy whiskers, paint-smeared jacket, soiled green flannel shirt and cracked shoes, but Guinness was able to establish his identity and the fact that he had just stepped out of a scene in his new picture, a version of Joyce Gary's novel, called Straight from the Horse's Mouth...
...this spoof of Roman historians and their stuffy translators, Robert Graves makes two major misstatements about himself. He is not cynical, being far too intelligent and benign for that, and he is certainly not mute, being one of the most relentlessly prolific authors now at work. The book jacket of his latest collection of miscellaneous pieces says, "There is only one Robert Graves," but this is patently untrue. There are many-the poet, novelist, critic, scholar, mythologist, essayist, general literary pundit and japester. All of them in this thoroughly entertaining volume are in top form...
...last week's program on "What Does Orchestration Mean?" Bernstein arrived at Carnegie Hall at 5:45 a.m. with his finished script to rehearse until the performance started at noon. During the concert, bouncy, boyish-looking Lecturer Bernstein roamed the stage with a microphone stuck in his jacket, sometimes sat down at the piano to dash off a musical example. Only occasionally did he indulge in cuteness, as when he spoke of "Grandfather Bassoon" and "Little Sister Piccolo," or explained that orchestration is like "putting clothes on notes...
...whenever his sports car skidded through a tight turn. But one evening last week he stared at danger in a new form: the muzzle of a pistol. Poking the weapon at him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered. "I am a member of the 26th of July revolutionary movement." One of Fangio's friends picked up a paperweight and cocked his arm. The pistol moved alertly. "Stay still!" its owner said. "If you move, I'll shoot." Fangio...
Shorn Rump & Hock. At the climax of the ritual, a livestock farmer in a dinner jacket squatted before six dogs already judged best of their groups and poked, prodded and peered with fervor while the animals danced through their paces. Said Judge William W. Brainard Jr., the Jersey farmer who made the final choice of the best dog: "Believe it or not," said Brainard, "it was a very close decision." After communing with himself he bestowed the blue ribbon on Ch. (for Champion) Puttencove Promise, a pure white standard poodle...