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Martha and her husband, after a kiss (and seven retakes for photographers), cut an 80-lb. wedding cake with a sword borrowed from an admiral especially invited for that purpose. Then dancing began. Martha swayed out a stately tune with Korean Ambassador Dr. You Chan Yang. The orchestra switched to It's a Great Day for the Irish, and Yang and Martha finished by stamping out the Mexican hat dance (Yang has been moving in U.N. circles a lot lately...
Meanwhile, the counter-counter-revolutionaries hatched a plot to have their cake, eat it too, and pinch a few of Skouras' box-office cookies into the bargain. Each announced, in portentous succession, that after years of arduous research it had developed at last its own wide-screen system-with "stereophonic sound." Paramount came out with Paravision, to be shown on a screen 1.66 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.66 to 1 for CinemaScope). Metro sedately favored 1.75 to 1, and Universal went...
...Saint-Félix. On this, along with whatever can be garnered from the château gardens, his family and retainers must suffice. And so the baron's astonishment rose as bills came rolling in for sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been robbed! Our jewels and silver are missing!" It did not take the Baron de Roquette-Buisson long to unmask the culprit. Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse...
...biography appear, and all the College's many divisions and groups are covered--and above all accuracy, a trait which "316" so lamentably lacked, abound in "317," and any yearbook which has these has all the essential ingredients it needs. If the frosting is sere, at least the cake is wholesome...
Eight hours later, more than 2,300 people came to dinner. Their tables overflowed the Palmer House grand ballroom into the foyer, into the halls, almost into the elevators. There was a cake 15 ft. high which Bishop Sheil had to cut standing above it on the balcony. There was a main course of the bishop's beloved corned beef & cabbage, and over & over the band played his favorite tune, MacNamara's Band...