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Grave & Gay. Nature was kind and the day bloomed sunny and unseasonably balmy. The ceremony itself was brief and moving. There were some memorable sights on the neoclassic stand in front of the Capitol: Eisenhower's solemn demeanor as he repeated the 41 words which elevated him to the highest office in the world; Mamie's proud tears as she watched him take the oath; Bob Taft's stony expression as he watched another man assume the job he had sought so long; Harry Truman staring at the floor of the platform and whispering to Mamie; Bess...
...Hollywood four months ago, Desi Arnaz sat down in solemn conference with a battery of pressagents, including a man from the sponsor, Philip Morris. Their problem: how to squeeze the maximum of publicity out of the fact that Desi's wife, Lucille Ball, was going to have two babies -one in real life, the other in their filmed TV show, I Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Suddenly inspiration struck one of the experts. Lucille would have to have her real baby by Caesarean section, wouldn't she? Then the date on which the Arnaz baby...
Linotying was under the capable mishandling of the erratic and esthetic Dick Dyer in the twenties, and credit goes to him for about the worst "pruf hak (proof reading error)" in the paper's 80 years. A solemn theological article appeared one morning bearing the head-line, "Christianity: A Positive Farce...
...Hugh Casson, 42, who made his name (and his knighthood) by supervising the architectural preparations for the 1951 Festival of Britain, is in charge of decorating London's Westminster section for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. A solemn-looking man, he has taken lighthearted femininity as his motif. "After all," says he, "it will be a woman's day." Reproduced on the opposite page are some of the working sketches which he and his associates have prepared...
...present hour of peril by asking its students to 'make studies of how the last war affected the dating pattern of our culture.' " This type of unbridled experiment ought not to be allowed in U.S. schools, said Bestor. As educators, "we are under the most solemn obligation to proceed with care . . . The caution and circumspection characteristic of medical research is the only proper model, for we are dealing with something as precious as human life itself. Vague hypotheses, truncated experiments, rash conclusions and loose generalizations are utterly out of place...