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...Hall of Benedictions, a long, corridor-like room with gold-ornamented walls and ceiling, the "imposition of the biretta" would mark a step in the elevation of some 30 prelates as princes of the Church. A throne would be set up for Pius XII and drapery-covered benches for the cardinals. Other Vatican rooms needed no attention: 1) Consistory Hall, where the secret consistories preceding the public ceremonies would be held; 2) the Sala del Paramenti with its splendid Gobelin tapestries, where the Pope would receive the cardinals in a private audience; 3) the huge, frescoed Sala Regia...
...Trooper. Declared the prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had labored long and hard to break the world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook his head in denial...
...afternoon last week, a grey, stocky major general strode briskly along the eighth-floor corridor of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s shining white Chicago store. He opened a door, smiled broadly, and walked in with outstretched hand. Sewell Lee Avery beamed back, rose to shake hands. Said General David McCoach Jr. to the chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co.: on the order of Secretary of War Patterson, the Army was turning the property back to its owners...
...laughter of yeh chi ("wild chickens") rang through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously inflated prices unreasonably became reasonable (steaks 50?, silk nightgowns $3). For 15 incredible days the celebration throbbed-firecrackers and kisses, music and laughter. British and U.S. soldiers were surrounded by "saltwater plums" (sailors' girls) from Szechwan Road, and by delicate Eurasian women, warm Russians, big-eyed Hungarians...
...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...