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Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made him look perpetually tired. But people always looked at him. An avowed pacifist, he was one of the "little group of willful men" who blocked Woodrow Wilson's 1917 plan to arm the merchant marine, and he also voted against World War I. But he left isolationism back...
...Albeneri Trio is made up of Alexander Schneider, former second violinist for the world-famous Budapest String Quartet, Benar Heifetz, first cellist for the NBC Symphony, and Erich Kahn, well-known pianist-composer...
...instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
...Philadelphia, there was just a string of taxicabs, at Jersey City, just the ferry to Manhattan. The marines silently looked at the New York skyline. Lieut. Camille Tamucci, the tough guy in charge, who had been dreaming of mounds of spaghetti, began brooding about his stomach. "It's all tied in knots," he said...
Then there is the little opus which was germinated by the inspiration of Howie Brundage, Co 3 financier. Howie is one of those rare animals who saves tinfoil, string and time. He saves his money, also. The opus...