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...artist. After a few months of formal training in Paris, he decided that he had "nothing to learn in schools." He became a clerk, then a wine merchant, and for a while he was happy. "I was gaining a foothold. To complicate things, I needed a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids . . . [Then] catastrophe, it took hold of me again. I rented a little atelier on Boulevard Saint-Michel, I locked myself in. My wife didn't like it, that's understandable; she disappeared in a trap door, melted away. Bon voyage...
...McThing has plenty of wacky motivations and a fair number of funny moments. It pries open the mind and pleads the cause of childhood, and, by contrasting old-maid tea parties with raffish mobster quadrilles, pleads the cause of bohemia, too. It also lets Helen Hayes go on an expert binge of bit-part shenanigans...
...present operating expenses of Apley are $9,562, including the cost of maid and janitorial service. This figure is based on totals for the year ending June 30, 1951. Apley cost $60,000 when the University bought...
...When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart into running the guns of a German fort, shooting perilous rapids down to a lake patrolled by an enemy gunboat. Her object is to sink the gunboat with a homemade...
...aimless wandering report then. But what of the recommendations themselves. Only three of the ten urge specific changes--the others are vague admonitions. Recommendations two and three propose returning maid service to Dunster House and centering the College porter system in the Yard. As the report pointed out, the ten or fifteen minutes required for the trek between classrooms and Houses complicates scheduling problems no end. Porters must be either late for class. As a short-range expedient, therefore, the recommendations are undoubtedly sound...