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...Fortnum & Mason did what few great London shops have done: opened a store in Manhattan. The building is seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening was a tremendous...
...storeroom of Madison Square Garden, piled high through most of the year, is a big heap of pine board sections dusted with splinters and pockmarked with uncountable little holes where the spikes of runners have prodded down into the soft wood. Last week the board track with its splintery topography telling illegibly of past races was set up again for the national indoor meet of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...
...particular following which was not his 15 years ago. He has become the caustic, clever leader of the Tory diehards. Winston Churchill was a young army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine." Fervently as any of his generation has Winston Churchill believed in Great Britain's divine right to rule-by force. His grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, descendant of that first Duke of Marlborough of whose going to war French children still carol. He believes that...
...pine tree on the hills of Maryland-through many summers' heats and winters' snows, Felled, carted, quartered, sawn, a metamorphosis within a week. And then a century buried deep within the White House walls, Unseen, unsung, but one of myriads holding firm together the storied structure. Until, a new age came and replaced steel for wood, then months upon the dump, The dump cart actually arrived jor one last ride- And then a rescue...