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Critics claimed that the Twins rookie infield would wilt in the summer and with them the whole team. So far this appears unjustified. The team did slip in July, but has now won nine of its last eleven games. Bernie Allen has raised his batting, average to a respectable .267, and after a brief slump Rollins is still hitting...
...occasion, small, taciturn Köthe Kollwitz could slip into melodrama, but the occasion was rare. She drew the unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another...
...down to the jazz world's two favorite antidotes to boredom-poker (rear of the bus) and drinking (front). Kenton rode in the well at the front door. A few lucky musicians were able to sleep, notably Saxophonist Joel Kaye, who at 140 lbs. is small enough to slip into the overhead luggage rack. A couple of other bandsmen listened over individual earphones to the tape recorder that Kenton had installed at the start of the tour. Favorite listening: Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Puccini...
Among Manhattan restaurants, Le Pavilion is Out, the Côte Basque, Colony and Caravelle are In; "21" hasn't been In for years. After the 15th of June, the right thing is to slip over to Venice for a couple of weeks. There, of course, it would be best to have one's own palazzo-President Kennedy's friends, the Charles Wrights-mans, do. Countess Natalie Volpi's pied a terre is a good example of style in Venice. The countess usually spends about a fortnight there in June; then off to Rome and other...
...more than a ready-made fictional hero: he was an embodiment of aristocratic tradition. As it happened, successive Falkners had successively less gumption. Novelist William, fourth in line, had in his father and grandfather suggestions of the thinning Sartoris and Compson clans-weak and neurotic aristocrats who let slip inherited wealth and inherited tradition...