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...where she picked up her mail from home, parked extra luggage and got knowing advice about where & how to travel. Her experiences ranged all the way from a climb up Mont Chevalier to a glimpse of the royal family in London. "It was," she says, "worth every cent I owe...
...president with refreshing prejudices-against luncheons, conferences, pretentious convocations, surveys, group projects, and all the pressure enterprises universities are prone to indulge in. His beliefs are just 'as refreshing. He is for the big man with the big idea-the great scholars ("To whom else do we owe our progress from savagery?"), and the great teachers ("A Socrates in every classroom...
When a cheering crowd finally let him leave the green after 30 minutes, Chapman explained how he had finally broken his jinx: "I owe it all to Ben Hogan. He taught me to shift my right hand and cured me of hooking my irons. I changed my grip just before I came over here." Added beaming Dick Chapman: "I've been waiting a long time to say this is the happiest day of my life...
...acorn planted a moment before. Another time it was a water pail apparently defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
...mixed feelings, but there was more foreboding than joy. Indian and Indonesian leaders who had attacked MacArthur as an obstacle to a negotiated settlement in Korea, were visibly pleased. In Japan, it was as though a fatherly friend and mentor had departed. The Nippon Times said: "The Japanese people owe General MacArthur an eternal debt of gratitude." The national Diet sent a letter: "Deepest gratitude . . . We shall remember you as our greatest benefactor...