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...this particular Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of case from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging John Adams to propose the revival of the practise of flogging students and a few meaty lines should convey the spirit of the evening...
...single out all of the people responsible for the success of the Cleveland Institute is not possible in this space, but TIME, as cosponsor, would like to convey its thanks to the citizens of Cleveland and the members of its Council; to Cleveland's Mayor Thomas Burke and Ohio's ex-Governor Frank J. Lausche; to the National Broadcasting Company (for producing nine special programs on the forum and broadcasting them coast-to-coast); to Cleveland's local radio stations (for the 31 forum programs they sent out over their transmitters); to the U.S. State Department...
...foreign officialdom have a chance to find a place to sleep in Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen and then you look over what...
...other peculiarities. Above stairs, smoking is not only permitted, but virtually mandatory. On humid summer days the atmosphere is often as rich as that of an opium hell. The entrance doors are miracles of cunning engineering-folding contraptions capable of snapping like bear traps, and edged with rubber to convey the impression that they are incapable of decapitating the unwary...
...Army's fine arts section. It had been selected by Art Professor Alphons Voren-kamp of Smith College (who helped identify many of the paintings when he was a wartime lieutenant colonel in the Dutch Army). Said Vorenkamp: "I thought it fitting that Dutch paintings should convey the thanks of the Dutch people. [These are just] a few flowers from a large bouquet...