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...elegant touch to the evening was a revival of an old Handelian custom, the playing of a keyboard concerto during intermission. It was no accident that the canny old Hanoverian preferred the great volume of the organ to the harpsichord's thin tone at those intermissions. Fortunately, the Sanders audience quieted down in very un-eighteenth century fashion to hear a distinctly unemotional performance by Harriet Wingreen at the harpsichord...
According to overwhelmingly universal custom, swimmers swim lengths, not widths of the pool...
...began their seven-nation good-will tour of Europe in Denmark. Then it was Wednesday, and that must have been Belgium, where Hirohito signed the Livre d'Or at the unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight...
There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...
...beauty of bowling," explained President Richard M. Nixon to reporters in the Executive Office Building, "is that it takes very little time, it's very good for the stomach muscles, and it doesn't cost much." Then the Chief Executive stepped up and let fly with his custom-made, personally monogrammed, 15-lb. ball-which rolled straight into the gutter. Undaunted, Nixon changed lanes and tried again, cleanly picking off all ten pins. "Let all political writers note," he declared, "that I did it in the right lane...