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"Keejah," "Transfers," And Other Recent Works

(A Cluster Of All-Purpose Book Reviews For Those Who Miss, As Everybody Does, Their Sunday "Times") The writer composes a series of satirical book reviews …

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1963 01 26 024 TNY CARDS 000272745

Incidental Intelligence: The Brown Shutters, a guest house in Bass River, on Cape God, has painted all its shutters gray.

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Setup

On an icy afternoon last week a small boy in a snowsuit stepped into the vestibule of an apartment house in the East Seventies. He struggled out of his …

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Comment

In a speech made at the 77th annual convention of the Amer Newspaper Publishers Association, of which Irwin Maier is president, he let a cat out of a bag …

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1963 05 11 034 TNY CARDS 000275814

Incidental Intelligence: (Full Circle Division): At the Salt River Indian Reservation, near Scottsdale, Arizona, a group of thirty Indians of the Pima …

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Goals

In an ancient volume of Browning's poems at the Donnell Library Center, on W. 53 St., one of our correspondents came upon a memorandum that was, in …

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They Could Have Danced All Night, And Did

(A Handy, All-Purpose Column On The Dance For Amateurs Of That Art Who Find It Unfeasible To Lift Their Sunday "Times" Or "Herald Tribune" From Vestibule …

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1963 06 08 035 TNY CARDS 000277134

Springtime love scene overheard on a busy side street in Manhattan. Policeman: "That was jaywalking... I'll have to give you a ticket... Let me see …

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1963 06 22 022 TNY CARDS 000277121

Chalked inscription found on a bright June morning on a Central Park pavement near the Reservoir: The little wee flower With the soft new dew, Shows what I…

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How To Be Happy When Your Newsdealer Filches Your Sunday "Times Magazine"

The writer parodies the New York Sunday "Times Magazine" section in a series of all-purpose articles on: de Gaulle's successor, M.M. Pompflimnereaux; …

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1963 08 17 022 TNY CARDS 000277233

Overheard in a Schrafft's far up north on Madison Avenue, one hostess to another: "If that Kathleen stays out one more Saturday, I'll break her to …

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Child Labor & the Presbyterians

The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. …

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Epicure

A young mother took her turn as chauffeur for six children, aged 8 to 9, whose parents belong to a school car pool. She asked her passengers what lunches …

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1964 02 01 025 TNY CARDS 000274673

Nanny with an American accent to a child she was accompanying across Madison Avenue at 79th Street: "Children are still children even when they grow up, so…

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Up On The Flying Trapeze; Show and Slush; Is Hopkins Outmoded? $215,600 For A...

(A Handy All-Purpose Art Column) Parody of an art column. There is an account of a retrospective show, discussion of prices paid for art, and a critique of…

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1964 04 11 033 TNY CARDS 000275862

The Nuttie Goodie Tea Room, in Springfield, Massachusetts, serves a club sandwich called the Mercy Hospital Special.

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1964 07 18 023 TNY CARDS 000277847

Simple declarative sentence on a sign in the employees' cafeteria of the Community Hospital, at Glen Cove: "Florence Nightingale wouldn't have …

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1964 11 21 049 TNY CARDS 000279522

A restaurant in Little Rock has simplified its life by changing its name from the Shangri-La Southern Style Smorgasbord to the Shangri-La Cafeteria.

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Mr. Whitweeks' Massive Tone; Whistlers Rampant in Robinson Opera; Other Notes

Review of three concerts. The first was a piano recital. by Mr. Richard Whitweeks of London, England. The second was a presentation of Herbert G. …

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Close to Mom

The writer is telephoned by U.S. President Sarah Perkins, called Mom, early one January morning to tell him to come to the White House from NYC, where he …

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This World We Live In

Author reminisces about the years 1924-'25 when he was a newspaper reporter. In '24, he spent his homeymoon with his first, wife, Lois Little, …

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Princeton Pond

The writer, who lives alone on the top floor of the Hotel Mansfield, on West 44th St., has been observing a puddle on the roof of the Princeton Club on W. …

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Comment

Springtime in this city-and elsewhere-we imagine, marks the resurgence of empathy among men... We are thinking at the moment of a bus driver on upper …

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1967 05 13 039 TNY CARDS 000286920

West Indian Intelligence: The cafeteria at the Minivielle & Chastanet Department Store, in Castries, St. Lucia, is closed for lunch every day between …

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Comment

Anything that can put new life into a man - cause him to go around afterward with his shoulders thrown back and his head so lifted that it feels as if it …

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The Big Little Man from Brooklyn

St. Clair McKelway profiles the dedicated imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman.

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THE BIG LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN

ANNALS OF IMPOSTURE about Stephen Jacob Weinberg, alias Stanley Clifford Weyman a famous impostor.

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The Presbyterian Captives

When the author was young, Sunday afternoons were usually spent indoors with his large, staunchly Presbyterian family. One of his relatives would read …

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MR. FIRST-NIGHTER

BEHIND THE SCENES excerpt from a PROFILE which ran June 15-July 20, 1940.

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THE BLOWING OF THE TOP OF PETER ROGER OBOE

THAT WAS A REPORTER AT WIT'S END about events that led up to the writer's accusing Admiral Nimitz of high treason in World War II.

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