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...said an Italian communique last week. Three days later a delegation of Croats led by Poglavnik (Leader) Ante Pavelitch arrived in Rome to offer the Crown (a wreath of golden clover leaves surmounted by a cross and an apple) to anybody Italy's wry little King Vittorio Emanuele should designate. The King had a couple of cousins who were in need of work. One was the Duke of Aosta, who had just finished losing the Crown of Ethiopia for his Cousin Vittorio (see p. 37). The other was Aosta's lean, towering younger brother, Aimone, Duke of Spoleto...
...From dark, cheap, undesirable tobacco leaves William Turner and Gabriel Goldstein of Columbia University inexpensively removed the desirable tobacco fragrance. This can then be put into the mild, golden leaves with little fragrance now favored by tobacco buyers. Mild leaves now require a factory flavoring of coumarin (from sweet clover) and vanillin. The two chemists predict that cigarets will soon have a genuine tobacco flavor-provided the public likes them that...
Comer. Far less comforting was a third speech. Donald Comer comes from an old Alabama family whose Barbour County plantation, after growing cotton for a hundred years, is now a profitable stock farm planted to clover, grasses, corn, legumes. No farmer himself, Donald Comer is chairman of Avondale Mills, one of the South's large cotton consumers...
...friend of mine in high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times...
Weekends he and Mrs. Holcomb (daughter of the late Rear Admiral Richardson Clover) drop down the Potomac in their 50-foot yacht Slow Boat, are sometimes called back for official business by a message carried down river by Marine Corps plane. On office days Tommy Holcomb goes home at 4:30 to the Commandant's quarters at Eighth and G Streets Southeast, alongside the Marine Barracks, where Commandants have lived in unbroken succession since the house was built in 1805. Quaint, spacious, fitted with authentic reproductions of its original furnishings, the house is also the centerpiece...