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...returned to find his place on the bench filled, he sued the U.S., claiming that the G.I. Bill of Rights guaranteed him job tenure during military service. He lost the suit, but the Administration in 1948 was able to find another judgeship for the heir to the Clark O.N.T.* thread fortune. Clark was exported to Germany as chief justice of the court of appeals under U.S. occupation. He set about irritating a succession of U.S. High Commissioners in Germany, notably the present Commissioner, James B. Conant...
...ingredients of Almanac are the revue staples--satiric sketches, comic monologues, and production numbers. Even more stubbornly than the usual revue, however, the show makes no attempt to tie them with a cohesive thread. The only common elements of the scenes are the superb settings by Pene Du Bois and Thomas Becher, innocuous and infinitely forgettable music by a dozen composers, and a general sophistication which often seems precious. Particularly expressive of these three elements are a "Ballet Ballad" from a story by Oscar Wilde and the opening number, pretentiously invoking the Spirit of Theatre and dull musically, yet striking...
...memorable flight was from Srinagar, Kashmir to New Delhi in an old Dakota which was "not equipped to fly over the lofty Himalayan foothills." The course: "Dodging in between the all-too-solid looking peaks, a process which made nervous passengers think of a near-sighted man trying to thread a needle...
...creature, a historical novelist who cared about history. When he died last February at 63 he had written some 30 books (which sold 5,200,000 copies), many of them forming a kind of family album of the U.S. in wartime. Come Spring was a tale of Revolutionary days, Thread of Scarlet a close-up of the War of 1812, House Divided took in four sprawling years of Confederate history. The books were honest, uninspired, but engagingly readable-triumphs of plausibility and painstaking research...
...warning booming of the miniature cannon on the committee boat sounds the approach of a race's starting time, Shields settles down to the business at hand: getting off to a split-second start. Nobody racing today does it better. His eyes flicker from the tiny "telltales" of thread on the stays (for gauging wind) to his stopwatches, to the starting line, to his sails, which. Corny stoutly maintains, "are 75% of racing success." All the while, he issues quiet orders to his crew of fellow amateurs...