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...ingenuousness, that his role in the Hiss case marked him; those who refused to believe in Hiss' guilt disliked him for convincing them they were wrong. What he does not realise is that his theory is only partly right. They dislike him largely because they do not suppose his nicer suits, quieter ties, and speeches about diplomacy rather than subversives to be evidences that he has changed very much...
...velvet block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction gallery last week was a yellowish nude by Pierre Bonnard, and the bidding had already reached $99,000. There, for a moment, it stayed, until the auctioneer breezily pointed out that "it would be much nicer to be able to tell your friends that it cost $100,000." Minutes later, the painting went for $101,000 -$7,000 more than the Bonnard auction record...
Some of her choice observations: "Aren't you going to ask me how I like America?... It's nicer than I thought it would be. You get the wrong impression meeting Americans who go to Europe. They don't behave as nicely as they do here...
...eleven). And at the border itself there is little unpleasantness besides the somewhat distrustful air of the guards--no luggage inspection, few questions. In order to accommodate its foreign tourists, the government even furnishes certain national groups noted for their extraordinary capacity to find everything "just a little bit nicer at home in France" with the equipage necessary for their greatest comfort. French visitors, for example, will be pleased to find that Tito has embellished the bathroom at the Loibl Pass station not with France-Soir--of which there is a shortage--but with the next best thing: copies...
...ever so much nicer than staying home with the telly," cooed a middle-aged mum with crimped grey hair to her friend in flowered silk. Under the fringed pink lights of a big London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like...