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...flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each boy a brand-new shilling and for each Grecian a guinea...
...beginning to build much more than was possible in the so often unsettled past. The coming years should be the happiest and best fulfilled of my entire life." After 34 years as one of architecture's greatest thinkers and teachers, Walter Gropius was starting what amounts to a brand-new career...
...Boston on the first lap of its annual 10,000-mile tour. As always, the "Greatest Show on Earth" was jammed with enough clowns, animals and death-defying aerialists to bewilder the most attentive youngster in the audience. And, as always, the whole show sparkled with a brand-new spring outfit of costumes, scenery and floats. The man who dresses the circus anew each year, "from the sawdust up" (moss-green this year), is a mild-mannered, round-faced designer named Miles White...
...newsstands last week was the second issue of a brand-new newspaper: Children's Times ("The Complete Newspaper for Boys & Girls"). The 10? semimonthly, 20-page tabloid, put out by Manhattan's Leader Enterprises Inc., had something for almost every child's taste. Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take...
...Never Say "Never Again" Again (Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; Columbia). A brand-new recording by the old King of Swing, who has now assembled a star-studded outfit for a sentimental journey across the U.S.* Except for a slight tendency toward middle-aged conservatism (he plays fewer notes nowadays), 1953 Goodman sounds much like the 1938 variety. Songbird Helen Ward's voice is as sweet as ever...