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...Gardener's Cottage." Resettled farther up Fifth Avenue in a 28-room pile which she termed "The Gardener's Cottage," Mrs. Vanderbilt lost none of her queenly manner. Convinced that Vanderbilts were a breed apart, she sometimes described herself as "all alone in the house," when there were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort...
...with the U.S. Their production methods are still too costly, their plants too antiquated. Europe's form of capitalism, with its emphasis on low wages, is hobbled by production-control ling, price-fixing cartels. European management would have to learn that higher wages and better working conditions breed greater productivity; European labor would have to learn to work harder...
...live quite outside the national economy, even speaking Aymara or Quechua instead of Spanish. At home on the high, forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth...
...blend of Negro and colored (i.e., mixed blood) life, sports, society, sex, scandal and politics that South Africa's non-whites can get in no other magazine. It was started by Publisher Bailey, 33, an ex-R.A.F. combat pilot, who settled down to raise sheep and breed horses after the war. As editor, Bailey picked a white South African friend, Anthony Sampson, 26, whom he had known at Oxford where they had often discussed South Africa's race problem. Drum is staffed largely by non-white writers...
Face to Face (Huntmgton Hartford; RKO Radio) is a two-part picture of mixed merits that gets its title from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West. ("But there is neither 'East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...