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...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...Letdown. U.S. exports in August fell $34 million from July (to $988 million), the lowest since October 1946. Imports rose $40 million (to $598 million), making the monthly balance of trade in favor of the U.S. the smallest in nearly two years. EGA shipments are expected to lift exports in the coming months...
...pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky. But the moods he created were sure: the loneliness of a woman reading a letter from overseas, the tortured plunge into battle, the exhausted letdown of victory. It took him just under a year to do the series, working regularly ("good painters are never flighty") and quickly, but only after long mulling. "I work long on the idea for a painting," says he. "I want the idea to strike right away...
...miles) he had to land with the help of G.C.A. At Paris (4,370 miles), the enthusiastic French pinned on him a medal for "physical endurance." At Karachi (8,745 miles), he found that "the clouds were in the palm trees," lost precious time working a radio letdown procedure. Customs officials pestered him. "They wanted me to sign a thousand papers. I was taxiing out, and the customs man ran after me. I just tossed him a fountain...
Regardless of a natural post-Yale meet letdown, the Crimson must stand as favorites in the University of Washington invitation race, in which they finished fifth out of a field of eight last year...