Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard school of the Depression brings out the spunky strain in Auntie Mame. With her income down to $200 a month, she opens an artsy-craftsy shop, the Maison Moderne, only to see it burn to the ground without insurance. On her first day as a switchboard operator, "she nearly electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil...
...puts his glass to his eye is likely to identify the U.S. today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...Grant Taylor, who directed the Hiroshima damage survey and served as a judge of the Houston-Beaumont test: "You need somebody out front to say 'No-not you, but you.' He'd probably have to carry a revolver on his hip. If a man is 80% burned, he's almost sure to die, no matter what you do for him. If he's 10% burned, he's almost sure to live, whether you treat him or not. So you do not treat either of these extremes. It's in the area between...
...plus a fascinating introduction to the bohemian Barcelona branch of the Picasso family. "Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso's niece Lolita explained. Added Nephew Juanin: "And the fuses always blow up." In the semidarkness, Rosamond Bernier saw a room cluttered with ancient furniture, presided over by Picasso's smiling sister, Doña Lola, wrapped in a sheet held together...
...Thanks for the beautiful pictures and the line: Who that has known thee but shall burn In exile till he come again...