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...which are repeated or rephrased in the works of Shakespeare. He is not the first to find, for instance, that four whole lines from Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love turn up again with hardly a word changed in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, or that after Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities...
...Person to Person, Ed Murrow served up another entertaining mixture of eggheads and rough diamonds. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his mannered British wife, Diana, were full of intellectual pleasantries and happy memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor...
...Emrys Williams, disclosed in his memoirs that life with Ali was rarely dull. Things hummed more than usual during Ali's high-octane fling at marriage with mercurial Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. Recalls Williams: "The day after she had dined ... at the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, I realized that Rita was determined to remodel the Château de l'Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids, who for years had worn gay summer prints and went bare-legged except for formal occasions, were measured for crisp black...
Four passengers off a Trans-Canada Air Lines' flight from London lined up at the room-clerk's window in Montreal's fashionable Windsor Hotel. The first three quickly got rooms. But when the fourth man, a Negro, stepped forward, the room clerk began to fumble with the registry cards and to complain that the airline had mixed up the reservations. He did not say that he had no rooms, but he finally handed the Negro a slip of paper with the address of a cheaper hotel and told him to go there...
...Negro was Grantley Adams, Premier of the British colony of Barbados and a staunch promoter of Canada-West Indies trade. When an airline official discovered next day that the Premier had been shunted to a second-rate hotel, he promptly reported the incident to the Ottawa government. Windsor Hotel officials hotly denied that any discrimination had been involved; the management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last week the External Affairs department sent a note to Barbados expressing "the profound apologies...