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...troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice...
Billy Is Different. From Savonarola to Billy Sunday, evangelists have exhorted sinners to repentance and preached salvation as a right-now, yes-or-no decision. The hot Gospel played a major part in the making of America, when churches were fewer, distances vast and life hard. But upper-crust Christians tend to regard the sweaty urgency of evangelistic Christianity as frequently hypocritical and always in bad taste. Billy Graham is different...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
None of this means, Dr. Creer points out, that the earth's axis of revolution has changed its direction in space. More likely, it has stayed put while the thin crust of the earth has slipped around the core, carrying different parts of the surface to the cold polar regions. Dr. Creer is not sure that the crust as a whole has moved. The continents may have drifted independently. By measuring the magnetism of more ancient rocks, he hopes to answer this question...
...Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also, he has had a break because his rice dishes prepared in the center's elaborate metabolic kitchens have included such delicacies as olives, mushrooms and an apple pie (made with a rice crust...