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...From the Black Magic's deck, Frank Sinatra records beamed encouragement to the struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman, who had unobtrusively swum the Channel two weeks before: "Head up, chin up, spit it out, beat Old Man Channel." Between wireless messages, the A.P. released carrier pigeons to fly bulletins to England. Unfortunately, the pigeons flew to France...
...Some Uniter staff conferences I have attended would be eye-openers to those who believe that Europeans can never really unite. Decisions are taken more slowly than they would in an ordinary national staff. But when a decision is reached, it goes right down the line, from Frenchman to Briton to Frenchman to Belgian to Briton to Dutchman to Frenchman, and is executed...
...that afternoon, the play began for keeps. There were a few wise-looking Americans and many sheepish Europeans. One lorgnetted lady inspected the game, flounced away horrified. This was not the old Monte Carlo she knew. A Briton fumed: "If they expect people to play this beastly game, the least they can do is to let them sit down...
Another unsung Russian genius named Glinkov "considerably forestalled" Briton James Hargreaves in inventing the flaxspinning loom. Dr. N. I. Lunin of Dorpat discovered vitamins. Professor Kataev constructed the world's first electronic television transmitter. In 1801, the self-taught genius of the Urals, Artomonov, built the first bicycle in the world's history, then pedaled the 1,000 miles from Nizhny Tagil to Moscow to prove...
...daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked last week, "I don't think she's much of a threat to the other girls. After all, how can you get romantic about someone when there's no possible future...