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Pigs, Paint, Pineapples. Salote spent the week rushing about her island, keeping the festive spirit under control and supervising all the details of preparation. She saw the last of a spanking new coat of paint slapped on to her white Victorian-gingerbread royal palace, oversaw daily rehearsals of the entertainment program, including the plaintive nose-fluting solos dear to the heart of every Tongan despite the fact that their music is limited to three notes. There were triumphant rustic arches, bearing the legend "I Love You" to be made for the royal route of march, tapa cloth banners...
...Manhattan's Dominique France, in its Christmas catalogue of high-priced haberdashery and notions, offered some helpful shopping hints for "other gift suggestions" not available there. "For Dad: a Wheeler Sun Lounge, 65-footer [yacht], $165.000. For Mom: a sable-lined reversible polo coat from Maximilian, $45,000. For mother-in-law: an Air France ticket to Viet Nam (French Indo-China...
Vocational Guidance. In Akron, when the judge asked her why she had stolen a $39 coat from a department store, Eula Cody, 18, replied: "Someone told me it was easy to steal...
Facing a vote of censure by the United Nations Legal Committee, Polish Delegate Juliusz Katz-Suchy, known along the East River as the poor man's Vishinsky, left his seat, told reporters he was going for "a drink of water," instead, picked up his coat and walked out. Reason for the censure: as the committee's chairman, Katz-Suchy refused to recognize Nationalist China's Dr. Shuhsi Hsu as "the delegate from China." sneeringly kept calling him "Dr. Hsu." Resolved the committee: "It is the duty of the chairman . . . to treat all members . . . as representatives of their...
...John Culver asked Bob Hardy rhetorically, "How could you be happier?" In the other, a knee-high New Haven autograph-seeker inquired of a sophomore in a top-coat, "Are you a football player?" The sophomore was Bill Meigs...