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After his father's death in 1950, Lobo moved his 10,000 volumes on Napoleon, his collection of Goyas and Gainsboroughs and his two daughters into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...
...doubt the Jamboree is a bit of old Americana. But, with its musical hayloft at 170 Sheraton St. Plaza, it seems a trifle misplaced. Staid old Boston has banned better, it seems...
This was not one of the hyper-suspicious hunting parties which have been ferretting communists out of every corner of American life--from the movie industry to the school system. It was the relatively staid Senate Foreign Relations Committee which though it includes a number of highly conservative Republicans--treated Conant with great respect and restraint. Nevertheless, the committee record, released this week, typifies the fantastic, often ridiculous testimony which is an evidence of the fear gripping this country today...
...notice: use "President Eisenhower" in the lead of a story, "General" thereafter. The Washington Post, after paying its respect by calling him "President Eisenhower," uses "Mr. Eisenhower" for the rest of the story. "Ike and Mamie" are still good enough for the tabloid New York Daily News. But the staid Washington Star agreed with the Advertiser that "Ike and Mamie" are undignified now that the Eisenhowers are in the White House; the wire services have settled for "President Eisenhower," "Mr. Eisenhower," or just plain "Eisenhower." President Eisenhower himself doesn't care. His view: the formal use of titles neither...
...program got under way with a staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...