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Rake's Progress. In Eastbourne, England, Albert Storey told police that, after 17 years as the keeper of a hotel's liquor cellar without snitching a single drink, he had during the last five years-under the influence and with the assistance of a woman friend-stolen and consumed some 4,337 bottles of beer, 75 bottles of whisky, 49 bottles of gin, 11 bottles of sherry...
...game can be played by candlelight in an empty coal cellar, a padded cell, or other convenient room, and the apparatus can easily be improvised. At the outset, whoever can place the largest number of square pegs in round holes becomes the "Government." Then cards are dealt around. Each player in turn presents his card, which is marked "Coal," "Gas," "Transport," "Steel," or the name of some other industry. Then the "Government" player presents his trump card, "Nationalisation," and takes his opponents' cards, handing them scraps of paper of dubious value in return...
...Warren Austin of Vermont thought of his orchards as he struck back: "When the housewife cans her fruits and vegetables in the fall, she puts a label on each jar before storing it away in the cellar. If she puts the label 'Peaches' on a jar containing applesauce, the label doesn't magically change the contents. One can quickly test the label by opening the jar and sampling the real thing inside . . . Sir, I am in a position to open that falsely labeled jar and let the world see what is inside-applesauce...
...lost on Washingtonians. Since the current baseball season opened, the Washington Senators have brought up Conrado Marrero and Sandalio Consuegra from their Havana farm team of the Florida International League. The two pitchers have won nine games, helped raise the Senators to fifth place, three notches above their 1949 cellar position...
...bequest left by 19th Century Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey (TIME, Jan. 10, 1949 et seq.). So long as the Royal Academy made all the selections, the progressives howled-and in recent years outspoken Tate Director John Rothenstein had been chuting most of the Chantrey purchases straight to the cellar...