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What indeed? For 417 pages, Margie is a virgin on the verge. Then, on the eve of Noel Airman's first Broadway opening, Lady Brett Ashley wins out over Shirley, in a Central Park South hotel room. This may well be the longest to-do over the loss of a girl's virginity since Richardson's Pamela. Says Wouk defensively: "Some people may get impatient and think, 'She's going to sleep with this guy, what's all the fuss?' But it's still a great suspense thing to a girl...
...mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above another object; or, he may have to mark which line in a series is the longest. If he can't yet make such distinctions, he is not ready for the written word
...weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence. 'But darling,' she said dramatically, 'I'm your Auntie Mame!' She put her arms around...
...before, rowing upstream against an ebbing tide in Connecticut's Thames River, Yale's varsity eight held off a fine Harvard crew to win the oldest (since 1852) and longest (four miles) rowing competition in the U.S. On a two-mile course, Yale's freshman and jayvee crews completed a sweep of the river, first for the Elis since...
Tying for probably the longest distance covered are Dudley C. Lewis and family and Hart de Wit Wood. Both groups are from the Hawaiian Islands...