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Also from Bucharest last week came another story (true), of a U.S. diplomat who had some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry building, and past innumerable guards, to the top floor. There stood two doors with a hardboiled, armed member of the security police posted before each one. The American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official...
...admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts like a last gasp, were: "Why, it can't be anything but a victory...
...hotels, caterers, dance orchestras, and social secretaries who conduct New York's $3,000,000-a-year debutante trade knew that debuts were not what they used to be. Parents no longer built special ballrooms on their country estates, or spent $10,000 for decorations, or hired 50-piece orchestras, or gutted Broadway's flossiest nightclubs for entertainment. Nowadays, a debutante might be charged as little as $1,000 for a dinner, $6,000 for a supper dance...
Benjamin Kimball will conduct the course, which opens at 8 p.m. tonight and will be held on alternate Thursday evenings. Discussion of operatic records will form the core of the series...
According to Miss Gilbert, various voluntary committees will conduct NSA activities in place of last year's nucleus of NSA workers, a means of encouraging college-wide interest in NSA. "Every student as an NSA member is eligible and welcome to work on these committees," she said...