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There was polite applause. King Baudouin walked out as stiffly as he had come in, and climbed into a waiting Cadillac. As the royal car rolled through the capital's prosperous streets, cannon boomed and church bells rang out. Some 12,000 soldiers and police lined the streets to hold back the crowds craning for a look at the King they scarcely knew. Later, Baudouin appeared on the palace balcony to answer the cheers of 60,000 gathered below. For exactly 50 seconds, he extended an arm in acknowledgment. Then he went back inside. The crowd called and called...
...Treasury last week rang out the old fiscal year with a budgetary surplus of $3,509,782,624, second biggest in its history. (Biggest: $8,419,000,000 in fiscal 1947-48.) The U.S. was in the black for the third time in 21 years because defense spending during fiscal 1950-51 was slower than anticipated, and federal income was greater than estimated: a record-breaking $48 billion. In spite of the surplus, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder went back to deficit financing. He announced that he would borrow $1,200,000,000, use most...
...fateful day in a junior-year English class, the professor, William Lucius Graves, read aloud a student theme entitled, My Literary Enthusiasms, in which the dime novels of the day were wittily treated. Before he had a chance to announce the writer's name, the bell rang, and the students streamed out. Thurber found himself walking alongside Elliott Nugent, who was everything on the campus that Thurber was not-athlete, social success, best actor in the dramatic club, class president, idol of the coeds...
Something did: the telephone rang a third time. Testifies Menuhin: "Deliberately, the Maestro got up, walked over to the phone, picked it up, and with one mighty yank he pulled it, plaster and all, out of the wall. All this without saying a word. Then, completely relaxed again, at peace with the world, he sat down and we continued to play the Beethoven concerto...
...Maestro was playing the piano when the telephone rang. He was so absorbed in the Beethoven concerto that he positively refused to recognize this foreign noise-but for me it was like trying to ignore a fire siren. Toscanini kept right on playing, and I was certainly going to continue as long as he did, but I could feel the pressure, the temperature rising. Any second, something had to explode...