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...dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
Back in the gay days of Manchuria and Munich, when the local R.O.T.C. was still preparing its future cavalry officers with the aid of a band of sturdy polo ponies, Harvard University was possessed of a glorious polo team. Organized as the undergraduate Polo Association the college poloists registered slashing triumphs over Williams, Princeton, and Cornell, and usually climaxed their season with a match against Yale before a cheering throng in Chicago...
What remained of ancient Rome when young Giovanni Battista Piranesi came down from Venice in 1740, was a pretty depressing sight for a would-be architect. The Forum was a clutter of shattered columns commonly known as "Cows' Field." The once-glorious Capitol was "Goats' Hill." The arcades of,the Colosseum were smothered in weeds and shrubs, and every day a few more stones disappeared on the carts of enterprising masons...
...funniest woman on the English-speaking stage. This rather sweeping pronouncement has never been challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there is no man or woman on the English-speaking...
Gizi, previously hailed by Szepesi for her "moral superiority over her fellow contestants," was ignominiously packed off by plane. Instead of playing in Goteborg and London this week, Gizi will be out of temptation's way, back in the glorious Hungarian People's Republic...