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...birthday of the Kaiser Wilhelm II has passed quietly at Doorn and perhaps the royal exile did not wholly miss the gala festivities which the occasion formerly brought to the Fatherland. While many continue to censure him as a sabrerattling militarist, the war has passed, and with it should go the lingering animosities which it provoked...
Thanks for item "Playing Soldiers" in TIME of Oct. 20, in which you mention the fact that most Legionaries never saw front line action and that their convention resembled a gala college reunion, somewhat ribald...
Last week many a famed Manhattan nightclubber received an astounding form letter. Excerpts: "You are cordially invited to attend the gala opening of the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club. . . . If you found a soupçon of enjoyment in my former place . . . in this Mecca of Merriment you will behold . . . the titillating tintinnabulating secret excitations of the Congo and flesh-shuddering, goose-creeping horrors of the Grand Guignol!" The letters-there were two editions-were signed: BELLE LIVINGSTONE...
...Leonid showers increase in a 33-year cycle, reaching the height of their brilliance at the end of the period. Year after next is one of their gala 33-year anniversaries. In 1899, stargazers were disappointed, complained that the Leonid performance was not worth sitting up all night for. Astronomers decided that the meteors had approached too near Jupiter, had missed the earth by being attracted out of their customary elliptical path around...
...inauguration of the Monday evening dinners at Lowell House last night occasioned a gala display of lights from its tower...