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...Soon afterward 5% of each enlisted man's $10 a month and 10% of each officer's pay was deducted to fill the purchase kitty. Meanwhile, Korea's ambassador to Washington was told to start looking for a ship. Last September Korea's government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries...
...palace confidant, "neither love match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former chamberlains (see cut). The imperial family soon afterward settled on bespectacled Takatsukasa, cousin of the Empress Dowager, as a likely husband, provided both youngsters were willing...
...score of riders and two dozen hounds had an appointment with a New Jersey fox one day last week. It was, as the club's pro huntsman told a New York Times reporter afterward, "the longest, hardest, most harrowing and most exhausting appointment" in the history of the Essex Fox Hound Hunt Club...
...poetry. Discussing the London Bridge area, Baedeker relates: "In one of the houses dwelt Sir John Hewittf Lord Mayor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, whose daughter, according to the romantic story, fell into the river and was rescued by Edward Osborne, his apprentice. The brave and fortunate youth afterward married the young lady and founded the family of the present Duke of Leeds...
...Afterward came the studio's biggest protocol headache: a party at Mike Romanoff's restaurant, which can hold only 250-of the very best people, of course. When it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to comment on a bad new movie: "What a picture! What a performance!" Fox figured that, all in all, it was well worth...