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Prudence Penny, the New York Mirror's cooking columnist, was teaching readers how to make rum pie with zwieback crust. "Break up zwieback," commanded Prudence conventionally. The next step in the recipe was the kicker: "Keep rum bottle handy; if smashing up zwieback exhausts you, take swig of rum and resume zwieback breaking when strength returns." The extraordinary advice may have startled housewives not yet privy to the Mirror's secret: Prudence Penny is a onetime police reporter named Hyman Goldberg...
...Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies of U.S. magazines, but no more. And a monotonous buzz blots out the radio broadcasts from Miami. Even that wonderful old mirror over the bar at Ernest Hemingway's famous hangout La Floridita has been taken down. In its place is one of those sweaty murals of militant struggle, which is enough to drive a person from drink...
...pressies" to an already interminable list. Samples: "I'm Rich, from the Advertiser." "Sign, of the Times." "Cash, from the Register." "Jefferson, of the Constitution." "Flat, from the Press." "Weary, of the World." "Feather, from the Eagle." "Twinkle, from the Star." "Left, at the Post." "Glass, of the Mirror." "Kane, of the Citizen...
...enters into a dialogue with nature: "We Orientals seem more apt at it than Westerners." At his exhibitions, he posts signs reading PLEASE TOUCH. "I'm afraid the sensuous joys of touch have been far too long confined to boudoirs," says he. So he polishes his sculpture mirror-smooth with grindstones, sometimes for months...
...better known (by the Greek form of his name) as Maimonides. Just published is the 20th century's first complete English version of Maimonides' classic Guide (University of Chicago; $15). Translated by Dr. Shlomo Pines of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the Guide freshly emerges as a mirror of an age and as the intellectual masterwork of a remarkable...