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...ceremony was to be the christening of the good ship Festival Queen, a commercial sightseeing barge borrowed for the day. On hand to do the honors was Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give me that please." Whereupon he swung from the toenails, lost his grip, and hurled the champagne into the Hudson River. "Forget it," sighed Lindsay. "At least I hit the ship," said Nancy...
...AAUP has been unsuccessful in the past challenging three universities, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton: the best example of this was the sad case four years ago of a professor of English at Princeton whose case of tenure was championed by the organization, its lawyers and mediators, to no avail. Secondly, because Teaching Fellows are legally students, and however many teaching duties they perform, they have no legal claim to bargain with the university on the same level that full-time teaching members, from instructors to full professors, have. Thirdly, because the administration, this year (1966-67) obviously suffering from...
...brown wool jacket, to a gold metallic gate of Heaven with a welcoming Christ within. It may also be prophetic, for Queen has become too crippled to lie flat. When she tries to doze sitting up, she is constantly awakened by spasms of pain. Since doctors were of no avail to her in her youth, she sees no reason to turn to them now, refuses all medication. Still, she plans to sew more pictures of her interpretations of the Bible. "If we can't sew, we'll write it down," she adds. Bridget smiles and nods...
...melted down into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped to Paris. In Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, the villain fled England in a Rolls-Royce whose body was made of solid gold. Scotland Yard has boarded and inspected all ships departing England-so far to no avail. Somewhere in England, the 144 gold bricks, whose telltale markings can easily be erased by melting, were probably bubbling merrily in a cauldron...
Writing a novel about the capital is like writing one about Hollywood-even truth is parody. In this political fiction, Gore Vidal (The Best Man) tries hard to bring the Washington scene of 1937-52 to life, but to little avail...