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...lane dirt road in Kaesong like Keystone cops chasing bathing beauties. As each jeep reaches the meeting ground, the driver stomps on the brakes, the delegates jump out and do their best to dodge the other onrushing jeeps (so far, there have been no casualties). Once rid of his passengers, the driver backs up to a parking space, disdaining to look behind. Usually, several drivers head for the same space. (It is, apparently, a matter of special pride for each driver to be parked as near the conference house as possible). Result, recorded by a fascinated New York Times correspondent...
...left Nazi Germany to continue his teaching and composing in the U.S. He was embittered by critics who ticked him off as merely a sideline experimenter. Once he wrote: "For years, instead of studying my scores and trying to find out who I am [critics have] tried to get rid of the problems I possibly might offer by stamping me with a trademark . . . Whatever I might have to present, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, soft or harsh, true or false, was of no concern...
...novel, the picture begins with a chance encounter on a Washington-to-New York train between, a tennis player (Farley Granger) and a wealthy, gabby ne'er-do-well (Robert Walker) with a touch of homicidal mania. Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that the crimes can be motive-free models...
Giacometti's ideal would be to spend a lifetime on a single statue, paring ever closer to its essence, but impatience often makes him reduce bust to dust in a matter of minutes. "Despite all my efforts," he complains,"! retain conventional elements I want to get rid...
...year, Pennsylvania Railroad accidents killed 83 people, injured another 792. (In the latest wreck, in May, in which eight were killed, the engineer was reported to have complete vision in only one eye.) All these grievances have left many Pennsylvania passengers feeling sure that the Pennsy wants to get rid of the job of carrying its 75 million passengers, devote all its efforts to moneymaking freight...