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...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
Halters for Foals. Calumet Farm, 1,038 acres of grass and white fences, five miles west of Lexington, is a rare gem among the bluegrass country's jeweled horse farms. The white, red-trimmed barns with dormer windows are quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production...
...paper in Montreal. Correspondent Sancton scooped Editor Sancton by two days. But Journal readers were more interested in news of abiding matters-the farms, the factories, the water supply and the schools. Says happy Editor Sancton: "You visit a small town and you say, 'This is quaint, this is the Middle Ages.' But after a while, you realize that this is the way most people live. This is the normal...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...
...only real laughs are provided by quaint Victor Moore, who as erstwhile owner of the house clucks about among his tenants like an anxious Leghorn. The artistry of his quavering frustrations and waddling dignity make the rest of the shenanigans look plain silly...