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...King sped to his snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles outside London, and was joined by Mrs. Simpson for the weekend. A reporter crawling that night among the giant rhododendrons ascertained that jazz was blaring and every window of the snuggery ablaze, before he was picked out by the electric torch of a constable too wise to make an arrest which would have made headlines...
...time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns an electric torch into his unprotected eyes while he is preparing for his favorite pastime...
...Victim of his own previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch song, "Down in the Depths, On the 90th Floor," rated way below his "I Get a Kick Out of You" in Anything Goes...
...occasion last week was the 50th anniversary of the most famed piece of sculpture in the Western Hemisphere: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 152-ft. Statue of Liberty. The statue was decorated for its birthday with an enormous U. S. flag hanging from the upraised torch...
Technical difficulties were greater than mink-chinned Sculptor Bartholdi expected. By the time the Philadelphia Exposition opened all that was ready was Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped...