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...York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior...
...tall, strapping young man in double-breasted suit and soft grey shirt strode from one Department of Commerce conference room to another last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...Prohibition is the worst curse that was ever inflicted upon this country," continued this experienced mixer of drinks. "It had a degrading effect upon everyone. Take my case, for example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling...
While the nation was dividing itself into clangorous groups of hard and soft money men last week, frantically trading theory for theory as prizefighters swap punches, a plainspoken, uncompromising young Arizonan who parts his hair in the middle and knows more about Government income & outgo than anyone else, arrived in Boston to speak a few hard facts. He was Director of the Budget Lewis Williams Douglas, addressing the annual conference of the New England Council (industrialists, businessmen). As a spokesman, he had come neither to praise the Administration's fiscal policies nor to bury any illusions about them...
...that empty chair into such prominence that the whole dinner will seem to revolve around it. If the means described should sound theatrical, that is only because we have come to associate LIGHT AND ITS EFFECTS with the theatre. Try throwing over the back of the empty chair some soft material in cream or old ivory. . . . Place [a light] below the chair, but so the light shines up into it. Just before the Grace is sung, switch off all the lights in the room except . . . the light which shines on the chair. Its presence will be felt throughout, even though...