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...sudsier side is Mory's, cited as a center of gentility and wealth as opposed to the rowdier patronage of the Oxford Grille and Cronin's Bar. White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...
...Amidst the flowery courtesies bandied over the luncheon table at the Hotel Continental, Arévalo hailed Mexico's 1938 expropriation of foreign oil companies as a "continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks...
...Amidst the plethora of well-intentioned speeches that marked the first sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's survey of the situation confronting the world peacemakers stands in real contrast to the polished platitudes of striped-trousered diplomats. No one has stated the problem of atomic control and the veto so thoroughly, nor probed to the heart of so many of the questions dividing East from West. But on both these major issues--which might be considered one in essence--Molotov carried his thinking only to the limits established by his own frame of reference...
...Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates, he unearths mystery after mystery and murder after murder instead of mere blackmail. Amidst the razzle-dazzle, the spectator knows nothing except that Marlowe is never surprised...
...Amidst all the talk about blues singers, jazz artists, and Koussevitzky lovers, the concert to be given November 10 by the Budapest String Quartet has been almost ignored. This is a great pity, for no instrumental organization in this country quite compares with the Budapest in consistent quality of execution...