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...cream-colored Lincoln Continental driven by the President of the U.S. flashed up a long Texas hill, swung into the left lane to pass two cars poking along under 85 m.p.h., and thundered on over the crest of the hill-squarely into the path of an oncoming car. The President charged on, his paper cup of Pearl beer within easy sipping distance. The other motorist veered off the paved surface to safety on the road's shoulder. Groaned a passenger in the President's car when the ride was over: "That's the closest John McCormack...
When Daniel Seltzer chose a reading of Tamburlaine the Crest for the first production in the Loeb's Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, he set himself a number of problems. The tone of Marlowe's two-part Tamburlaine is almost uninterruptedly bombastic; what scant relief there is comes from the DcMille-like spectacles of battles, suicides, and a scene in which Tamburlaine's chariot is drawn by four captive kings...
...whether the precepts that Conant stated 21 years ago are as significant today. It was easy to ask for loyalty to the great traditions of Western civilisation and to talk of educating for citizenship, in the midst of a World War, Harvard's program was born on the crest of an intellectual wave which rose at Chicago and Columbia--it was not a pioneering and daring venture...
...into British companies that contracted for large amounts of oil from Allied. In Manhattan the brokerage house of J. R. Williston & Beane, which lost heavily in its dealings with Allied, had to be merged into the stronger Walston & Co. And in Chicago, authorities refused an operating license to Oak Crest Refining Corp., a venture in which DeAngelis is one-third owner, on grounds that one of the officers was associated with oth er enterprises that were infiltrated by gangsters...
...LADY ORMSBY GORE. Invitations bearing the lion-and-unicorn crest have long been coveted in official Washington, and Sylvia ("Cissie") Ormsby Gore can have anybody she wants to dinner. In tact, she could probably have everybody, for the massive British embassy is among the world's largest and gets one ot the fattest entertainment-and-housekeeping allowances anywhere ($94,680). Sir David knows the President from the days when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to London, sails with him on the Honey Fitz and is friendly with most of the Administration's other key people. Cissie prefers having twelve...