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...youthful yanquis. Far from having a secret, the yanquis were just amateur cotton growers who had struck it rich with their first crop. Until their own tall, sturdy plants bore plump bolls of ripening cotton, neither of them had even so much as walked through a cotton patch...
...last one hundred and sixty-four years, the United States has patched up its Constitution twenty-two times. The latest patch was applied early this week, and it is a pity that a change so drastic as the Twenty-second Amendment should have been put through mainly as an expression of spite against an ex-President...
...divorce. Flashbacks show how Bette grew from simple beginnings into a money-hungry snob who tried to shape her husband into her own image of success. Then she goes off on a cruise, learns something about loneliness, drifts from self-pity to remorse, is tearfully ready at last to patch things...
...these days [the truth] will knock down this tin shop of absurdity and wickedness. Then the adventurers will take away their roulette wheels, their hair-curling machines, their good-luck charms. They will go away rich, and laughing at us. Here, amid the uproar, fighting to patch the sinking ship, we will be left alone, the disillusioned...
...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...