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...names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books that can tell them much about the country they travel. The last official U. S. Baedeker appeared in 1909. Written for European tourists, it contained such useful information as that carrying firearms was no longer necessary...
...steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...
Most elaborate of the dance sequences is hoofed by Astaire, Burns & Allen at a country fair. After trying their fantastic toes on turntables, rolling barrels, slippery slides, the trio trip into the magic mirror room, become stumpy, stilted, wide & narrow by turns. The climax is a mirror that clips them off, leaving only disembodied dancing legs. Reginald Gardiner, whose stage repertory includes imitations of ugly wallpaper, effeminate French railway trains, weltering bell buoys, contributes one soul-bursting scene as an aria-minded butler tossing inhibition to the wood winds and singing a tenor solo from the opera Martha...
...readers of educational advertisements in the flyleaves of solid U. S. periodicals, two young women gazing placidly into a mirror ball have represented for many years National Park Seminary of Forest Glen, Md. National Park's well publicized mirror ball and reputation as a stronghold of Southern culture were the creations of a remarkable Illinois educator named James E. Ament, who bought a part interest in the school in 1916 and managed it with distinction for 20 years. When Dr. Ament died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire...
...dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper is touchy. Self-made son of an English schoolmaster, he has practiced hours before a mirror. During important tournaments he often has a masseur treat him, retires resolutely at 9 p. m. He carries a record bag of clubs...