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...summer's morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
...Korean-American captain-can speak either Korean or Chinese. Said one officer to TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "If we want to question a prisoner, we have to keep him isolated until we're through with him. If we return him to the compound, he'll slip off in the mob and change his name." Said another: "We could have Mao Tse-tung and Kim II Sung both in the same compound and never know...
...Jockey Club, he is, he says with a slight flavor of amusement, "at the policy level." The Jockey Club, a body which deliberates deeply but does not always emerge with deep conclusions, doesn't always know what level he is at. One of his amusements is to slip through the registry a name for a horse which the registrar will later regret. An example of this was False Front. The registrar did not note that the dam was named Superficial...
...sell. When it found that some warehouses couldn't honor their receipts, the scandal broke. To Brannan the shortages seemed piddling compared to the $10 billion in crops stored by CCC during the past three years. Said Brannan lightheartedly: "Five million dollars worth [of grain] could almost slip through cracks in the floor." Furthermore, he was pleased that no one in the committee had accused Agriculture of skulduggery. Said he as he left the hearing: "Our case is made. They don't claim fraud-just bad management." The committee was far from satisfied. It ordered a thoroughgoing investigation...
...March the new fabrics-for curtains, bedspreads and slip covers-will be on sale in a thousand-odd stores across the nation. Riverdale's initial printing of close to a quarter of a million yards has brought the average price down to $2.50 a yard. Lewenthal, the plump promoter-president of Manhattan's middlebrow Associated American Artists, thinks that is about right. The market for high-priced art is dwindling, he figures, and art's greatest potential patron is the budget-conscious housewife...