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Round & Round. This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world...
Boris Goldovsky has taken an old and practically forgotten chestnut, dusted it off, and come up with a modernized, glossified, and immensely entertaining version of Rossini's "The Turk in Italy...
Berliners last week found a strange symbol of their city and of Europe. In Prinz Handjery Strasse stands a chestnut tree. Six weeks ago, a U.S. plane flying in Operation Vittles crashed against it, killing two U.S. flyers. The flames of the crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...
...chestnut tree spoke to Berlin of courage and danger, which are never far apart; in other words, of peace...
...Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Australia was matched with Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup interzone finals. After 27 countries had been eliminated, the survivors were fighting for the right to challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...