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After five months of careful work, Burgoyne and Washington are back in their frames, and Cornwallis is almost finished. Tightening the picture on a stretcher last week, the countess gave it a light tap with her finger. Cornwallis uttered a soft boom. "You see," she said proudly,"like a drum...
...back to its affiliated stations with Portrait of a City, a show intended to let local stations dramatize the "personalities" of their home towns. The Author Speaks offers such dissimilar writers as Mary McCarthy (The Groves of Academe) and Princess Ileana of Rumania (I Live Again). CBS has on tap the Frank Fontaine Show (situation comedy) and Romance ("The dramatization of light, romantic stories...
...plentiful that NPA began taking off some of the restrictions on its use in building, e.g., starting July 1, each builder will be allowed 250 Ibs. per quarter. Far from presaging a glut, this prospect encouraged aluminum boosters like Dick Reynolds to predict that aluminum was just beginning to tap its future markets. "For the first time," said Reynolds, "there will be enough aluminum for major potential users to consider its use on a large scale." Alcoa's President Irving White Wilson is even more optimistic. Says Wilson: "Can we sell all this aluminum we are gearing...
Shortly before 5 p.m. this afternoon over 500 Yale juniors will file quietly into the courtyard of Branford College. This is Tap Day, the day when Yale's senior societies bestow on Eli juniors the highest honor or the deepest heartache that can come to a young man in New Haven...
...Carusos' battle was only half won. Still on tap last week was their suit against M-G-M for depicting Tenor Caruso's life without first getting their consent. Says Grandson Enrico, who looks like a small edition of Tenor Lanza: "The picture is full of historical inaccuracies. It gives the impression that Caruso arrived in the U.S. almost an unknown, that America launched him, glorified him and was responsible for his success. The picture denationalizes my grandfather." Besides, added the family's lawyer-although his point was not included in the legal complaint-the heirs regard...