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...Arf & 'Arf. Only in Los Angeles, with its oil and movie millions, says Connie Hilton, could he build a place like the Beverly Hilton. From start to finish, it has been his own special baby. To make sure that everything goes just right at the opening, Hilton even worked up a 58-page script, plotting every move, allocating every magnum of Besserat de Bellefon champagne, with all the pomp and precision of a Hollywood extravaganza. On buses from the airport, there will be guitarists and champagne; as the guests tour through the Red Lion Bar, a replica...
WELLESLEY, Mass., April 30 (ARF)--So listen. I'm up here at this little old Waban oval, taking a day leave from the Downs, and I gotta report that they look good, these fillies, and ready...
That was the last human sound for minutes. All other members of the senate responded by barking; some cried "arf," some cried "woof," and others imitated the long-drawn bugling of the redbone hound. After the last legislative yip, the presiding officer quickly ruled that the bill had passed unanimously...
...Most readers will have a hard time finding any appreciable difference between the new Bright Day and such earlier efforts as The Good Companions and Angel Pavement. Changeless Author Priestley is still his typically British 'arf-an'-'arf self -half an able, warmhearted craftsman whose values rest on beef and decency, half a left-of-center propagandist, who views bureaucratic Laborites and heartless boosters of free enterprise with the same beady...
...Bitter 'Arf. Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout...