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Expatriate Nostalgia. With more vodka came wistful recollections of Birrell's fieldstone showplace in fashionable New Hope, Pa., where he once kept a shiny, vintage fire engine, and reportedly entertained such celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They...
Compared to some of the other mink-covered items referred to in your Jan. 13 issue, a mink duster for dusting Cadillacs is really practical. Incidentally, pastel and white mink have for years given an assist to Casper's greenhouses and choicer gardens, so Manhattan's Ferti-Mink [a fertilizer for penthouse plants] isn't so extraordinary...
...does have a wonderful target. The intellectuals of his title are a specific group; they are the habitudes of "cocktail parties of New York, Boston, and the choicer Eastern universities." Not all of them, of course, but the ones who huddle today under the banner of academic freedom although in 1940 they strove to lynch any professor who said a favorable word about fascism. Not all of them, of course, but those who signed petitions drawn up by people they didn't know, in favor of causes that they hadn't even heard of, but who today shrug off anti...
Dire wolves are respectable finds for any amateur digger, but among the bones of this one was something even choicer: a stone spearhead with oddly fluted sides. It proved that the dire wolf had been speared and possibly killed by a Folsom hunter. It also hinted that other Folsom remains might be found near by. In Pleistocene times Blackwater Draw must have been a sizable river, just the place for ancient hunters to use as a camp site...
...becomes a choicer between the Marshall Plan or nothing, then we must attempt the nothing," said Miss Kubie, who went on to propose as alternatives passage of aid through the U.N. and increased effectiveness of the International Bank set up at Bretton Woods...