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...Serpents have been strictly barred from barracks in New Delhi since two enlisted men wound up a large evening by buying a snake charmer's cobra, taking it home...
...Missimo's tea party, Willkie rose to blandishing heights: "I accept as the quintessence of all the compliments I have ever received that I have been complimented by such a delightful lady. In 1940 I made 625 campaign speeches and attempted to answer the master charmer of the day. That was easy. This is tough...
...Charmer. In Chicago, Fred L. Marx, job hunting, wrote to 100 executives, tried to win their hearts by enclosing little packets of sugar...
When NBC's Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio's brighter offspring - the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer who strangely never wed, the Basin Street program (Blue, Wed. 9 p.m. EWT) has never been seriously wooed by a sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show...
This book, by the tireless fabricator of Men of Good Will, is not one of the series; it is a graceful little vacation-piece on the old subject of The Visiting Foreigner. This time the foreigner is no charmer of women's clubs but a likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes, fresh minds and Gallic talent for analysis...