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...House "Kitchen Committee" was back from France with orders for postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...
...went to Russia at Government invitation to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists. For the visit the Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...
...name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published his own 35th book (Problems of Men; Philosophical Library, $5). He was packing his bags for a Nova Scotia vacation. For September he planned an inspection trip to China's universities, where he is regarded as a major prophet...
Juan Perón's wife Eva went shopping in Buenos Aires for a new carpet for the presidential nest, picked...
Next day the Nippon show was closed. Diet Member Ishida was on the carpet at Allied Headquarters. Said he: the songs might have been "a little careless . . . but words of advice and warning must be given to Japanese girls...