Word: blowouts
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...Harvard weekend will not be the big blowout of the Yale football season this year, the CRIMSON learned last night. Instead, the Elis will do most of their dancing and drinking in honor of their game against Dartmouth on November...
...inaugural this week, Rio planned the greatest carnival in history. Every night tambourines sounded in samba time from the capital's shanty-lined favela hills. For the favela folk, pro-Vargas almost to a man, the return of the "father of the poor" called for a big blowout. In their "samba schools," where fathers, mothers and children had paid dues all year toward costumes and a community float for the carnaval parade, the sentiment was the same: "We'll make this one for the velhinho [little...
...mile Texas-to-Guatemala highway last week with a thrill-packed six-day auto race for passenger stock models. Mexicans by the millions took the curves and cliffs vicariously, via press and radio. In the capital, people carried portable radios in buses and streetcars to get the blowout-by-blowout reports...
...started giving parties. She shrewdly gave a yearly alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought Bess Truman's bridge club all the way down from Independence to hear her, threw a big party at the Skirvin Hotel afterward...
...outskirts of Paris one day in 1946, Reeves Lewenthal, a wide-awake young U.S. art dealer, stopped his car, got out and ruefully inspected a flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...