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...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
...Jesus Christ dress? A new Sunday school book for three-year-olds, just approved by the General Council of the Evangelical and Reformed Church (U.S. membership: 809.000), shows him in what look like white Bermuda shorts, a white T shirt and a striped sports jacket worn outside the trousers...
...Escapade, a sleek, 72½-ft. yawl skippered by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena, Calif., glided past Skagen Lighthouse to lead 17 weary finishers in the Bermuda-Sweden yacht race. Escapade's time for the 3,500-mile voyage: 19 days...
...radar antenna rotating inside the helium-filled gas bag. Its great endurance (up to 95 hours without refueling) promised ample range as it beat to seaward off the New Jersey shore one day last week in search of a racing sloop, overdue on a Bermuda-to-Long Island...
...versatile complex of latticed background panels, designed by Rouben Ter-Arutanian in 1956 and used for the dozen productions since, are gone this summer. Instead, Ter-Arutunian has encased the whole proscenium and stage within a surface of giant potato chips. This adequately serves the exotic Mediterranean Bermuda that Shakespeare specified for The Tempest; but it proves less fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added...