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Buckingham Palace was running over with romance. While the British public was jaws-ajar over Princess Margaret (see FOREIGN NEWS), the palace announced the engagement of Princess Elizabeth's private secretary and her chief lady-in-waiting...
Even the rebels themselves were careful to leave the door ajar. Candidate Wright explained, with careful ambiguity: "This is not a bolt. This is not a fourth party. I say to you that we are the true Democrats of the Southland and these United States." To be doubly sure that there was a way of scrambling back, the rebels agreed to convene again next October to see how they were doing...
...little shaky lately because of the May Day baby incident. When Bette Davis had her May Day baby, she flew the coop and refused to talk to the press. Hedda, suspecting that Bette had gone to Laguna, climbed into her grey Cadillac and simply drove down. Finding the door ajar, she walked in. Bette was delighted to see her and they talked for two hours. Said Lolly in her column the next week: "Since Bette Davis has had so many unwelcome visitors, she has had to have her gate padlocked...
Said foreign-policy expert Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not a candidate . . . and I am anticipating no campaign in my behalf." That left the door carefully ajar. To a reporter's question about a draft call, he quipped: "You mean I don't have any of Sherman's blood...
Thus, last week, Europe's dispossessed began to pass through the gates of America. The gates, once wide and welcoming, then shut, had been swung slightly ajar by a presidential directive admitting refugees under normal immigration quotas...