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...Lonely Island. A more serious complaint is that the tried and true New Yorker formulas of the 1920s and '30s are out of place in the 1960s. The shapeless, plotless New Yorker short-story form tends more and more to pedestrian tales of the Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they...
Remote Control. In Denver, testing a new "driver simulator," State Revenue Director Robert A. Theobald ran down a hypothetical pedestrian, rammed an imaginary parked bus, smashed into a simulated speeding train, remarked: "This thing needs a little adjustment...
...bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events in the press, and denied that anybody had been killed. But hospitals reported five dead and many wounded. That night Istanbul was a ghost city. Not a pedestrian, not a car was seen in the streets...
...beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist. The greatest "scientific humanist" of his age, Huxley was once tempted to become...
Hard Cover. In Los Angeles, after James E. Fitzgerald, 23, was arrested on charges of kidnaping and robbing a policeman, looting a cafe, shaking down a pedestrian, shooting another and holding up a liquor store twice, he told cops that he was a Bible salesman...