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...mayor is not tall, but well built, and his congenial smile reminds some of his constituents of England's King George VI. Single, but willing, he attends "the fights" regularly. He thinks Radcliffe girls "stack up well" with the local product...
...field investigation of it. As a former parson in the Church of England, I can testify that I have seen many beauties of an optimum standard, sired by C. of E. Clergymen. As a matter of fact, I have one of my own and as a "lovely" I'd stack her up against any Ealing Studio bombshell.... Joseph Fletcher, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School...
Once downstairs, the hi-fi set goes on, and Adams reads the morning papers while Rachel prepares breakfast (fruit, two eggs and-he thinks-Sanka). He is at the White House desk, emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the U.S., by 7:30, plunging deep into the stack of papers that never seems to diminish. The rest of the day is accurately crowded: conferences, sometimes as many as three at a time, with Adams circulating among them; a parade of visitors; dozens of telephone calls; and, always, papers and more papers. Generally, Adams takes time out only...
Often, before Early Riser Truman signed a single document in the stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled...
When Yale Music Historian Leo Schrade came across the faded parchment, which had lain unnoticed for years in a dusty stack at the university's Branford College Library, he spotted, above the Latin words from Jeremiah (Lamentations 3: 13-34), the spidery hooks, loops and slashes of the ancient musical-note symbols called neumes. * The sheet resembled the earliest known neumatic documents, but was probably at least 100 years older. Yale's Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after...