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Thump, Thump. The next day was Mamie's syth birthday, and the carillon in Peace Tower tinkled out Dixie and Yankee Doodle as she drove to Parliament House. In the oak-paneled, green-carpeted House of Commons, the President addressed a joint session of Parliament...
...cities in the United States now employed it. Only 3 students knew that Cincinnati used the system. None knew that apart from the 4 Massachusetts cities already named, the only other cities in the United States using the P.R. system are Cincinnati and Hamilton (Ohio), Hopkins (Minn.) and Oak Ridge (Tenn...
...Oak Park's Fenwick (Catholic) High School, which last year sent about 17% of its graduating class to Notre Dame, Johnny began to round out in other ways. Fenwick Trainer Dan O'Brien recalls Johnny as a "sort of dual personality around here. He seemed like a backward type when he was in the dressing room, not saying much or paying much attention to what was going on. But when he was on the football field, he suddenly became aggressive-not offensively so, but intelligently...
...used to cook an informal roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall paneled in sturdy oak, a sleek, yellow lacquer desk...
...Fumed Oak" is the funniest if the lot. For years Stanley Holloway, the husband, has been a perfect breadwinner. When, one night, he comes home moderately looped, his wife says, "Coming home drunk, well, I'll give you apiece of my mind." Holloway counters with "It will have to be a very small piece, you don't have much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess...