Word: bosporus
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Brotherhood on the Bosporus...
...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
...into the Service?Lilla to J. Pierrepont Moffat, now the Department's expert on Disarmament and adroit head of the State Department's Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
Chatting economics excitedly with his gorgeously uniformed military staff, General Ismet then boarded a yacht loaned him by Dictator Kemal, sailed to two likely sites, one on the Bosporus, the other on the Black Sea, where he founded respectively a bottle factory and a semi-coke plant. The ceremonies over, he gave a champagne supper to foreign experts who are coaching Turkey's Plan...
Little did he know that that morning the 46-year-old tramp S. S. Maiotis with Brother Samuel as its only passenger had cleared the Dardanelles, barged up the Sea of Marmora and dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...