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...official U.S. representative at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles had an explanation for the demure grey dress she wore to the ceremony: "I dressed down so as not to detract from the Queen. I told Valentina to make me a simple dress that would blend inconspicuously with the color of the Abbey pillars...
...Amino Blend. Chemistic food, says Rosin, is only a matter of time and effort. Margarine (chemically hardened vegetable oil) is already partly synthetic. It will be simple for chemists to manufacture food fats out of synthetic glycerin and paraffins from petroleum. Starch will be more difficult because plants produce it cheaply, but Rosin is confident that synthetic starch can be made out of carbon monoxide acted upon by sunlight...
...contrast to this bureaucratic farce stands the criminal vitality of Moosbrugger, a murderer and sex maniac. From his many bouts with the law, Moosbrugger has picked up a weird blend of legal and psychiatric jargon, by which he expresses the chaotic resentments which seethe within him-and which, hints Novelist Musil, also seethe within millions of his fellow men. In his deluded fashion, Moosbrugger comes to think that "his whole life had been a battle for his rights." And Ulrich, though his exact opposite, feels a certain sympathy, even a sneaking identification, with Moosbrugger. "If mankind could dream collectively...
Remains to Be Seen (M-G-M), a movie version of the 1951 Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse play, is a blend of murder and mirth that succeeds in being neither mysterious nor particularly amusing. The action takes place in a Park Avenue apartment building which houses: a bashful theatrical manager (Van Johnson) who is also an amateur jazz drummer, a sleepwalking band singer (June Allyson). a murdered vice snooper (Stuart Holmes), a homicidal doctor (John Beal). a mysterious lady (Angela Lansbury) who materializes at intervals from a secret door...
...fifty speeches, Mr. Stevenson says he selected them "because they seem to cover much of what I wanted to say." Printed chronologically, they start with the July welcoming speech in Chicago, when he walked out on the applause because he was not a candidate, and end with the brief blend of humor and pathos that was his concession. It is, of course, impossible to read these speeches without hearing the voice, remembering the face on television, and tasting once again some of the partisanship of the campaign. Yet the voice was too high, the delivery too hesitant...