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...last we have reached Takarazuka, a unique town dedicated to laughter, spectacle and melody." For 30 yen (8?) the travelers can stare at the town's zoo, flock through its botanical gardens, jitterbug on its spring-mounted dance floor, or get married in its Shinto chapel. But the main event is the big show in the rambling, 4,000-seat theater-a rare, sukiyaki-like mixture of the Folies Bergeres, Radio City Music Hall, the Metropolitan Opera and native Kabuki. It is the Japanese teenagers' most popular musical entertainment...
...domain-the finca's 13 acres, including flower and truck gardens, fruit trees, seven cows (which provide all the household's milk and butter), a large swimming pool, a temporarily defunct tennis court. In the 60-foot-long living room, heads of animals Hemingway shot in Africa stare glassy-eyed from the walls. But most imposing of all are Hemingway's books. He consumes books, newspapers and random printed matter the way a big fish gulps in plankton. One of the few top American writers alive who did not go to college, Hemingway read Darwin when...
...unpretentious comfort (Billy tithes his $15,000 a year from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association). The Grahams do their best to keep their four children-Virginia, 9; Anne, 6; Ruth, 3; and William Franklin III, 2-from "hamming it up" for the tourists, who sometimes come in busloads to stare at the house. Virginia is currently trying to learn the Sermon on the Mount by heart, has been promised a bike and $25 if she gets it down pat by Christmas. "I don't think she's going to make it," laughs her father...
...elevation of Snyder, who is professor of Microbiology, brought quick praise from the few professors available for comment last night. "I think I can speak for the school and call the appointment an excellent one," Dr. Frederick J. Stare. professor of Nutrition, commented. Most of the school's leading professors were in Buffalo at the annual convention of the American Public Health Association...
...give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself at all." As he lived the part, Brando dragged his audience back by the hair of their heads to the Neanderthal cave of human origin, and made them stare at the animal leavings on the floor. "It was awful and it was sublime," said one director. "Only once in a generation do you see such a thing in the theater...