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Sightseer's Digest. Though the Metropolitan has its share of pink marble, Taylor's museum high-hats nobody. Last week, as every week, a steady stream of schoolchildren, college students, housewives, tourists and casual visitors trooped up the steps and into the cloakroom to check their coats (no tips allowed...
...respectable Kensington family hotel and started job hunting. Too proud to mention either her medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod's department store and as a cloakroom attendant in a Paddington hotel. Last year she got a job as a tourist-class stewardess on a ship running to Australia and New Zealand...
...Stewguts slapped down the pointer and hurriedly erased the last of the flowers. Suddenly she took her sister's face in both of her hands, and, bending, gently kissed the top of her head. As the hall door opened with a burst of voices, Stewguts silently closed the cloakroom door behind her and fled...
...coffee or tumbler of whisky she accepted was drugged. At first one drop, then two-until he had completely won her heart." One night last July, Toda called at the Kacho cottage, presumably to talk charities. "Unsuspectingly," said the ex-prince, "I opened the door to the cloakroom and there I discovered the figures of Toda and Hanako as I should never have seen them...
...Capitol corridors were charged with political tension. "Wait until we get Acheson," the more partisan-minded Republicans had crowed in every cloakroom, as the Administration paraded its military witnesses. Waiting for him in Room 212, Acheson had few defenders: almost to a man, the Democrats considered him a political albatross around their necks. Chairman Richard Russell, who had introduced each preceding witness with a resounding recitation of his achievements, contented himself with a brief comment that Acheson had been Secretary "during one of the most trying periods" in U.S. history...