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...rainy and cold outside the Lampoon last night, yet someone had left the castle door open, so I went in. Inside it smelled rather damp, but at least it wasn't raining, and from the dimly lighted room to the left came the reek of beer and the sound of conversation. "The meeting for competitors is through that door," a shadowy, beerdrinking figure said. "It's just begun...
...humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could do. Anyway we saved the day-or rather the nights...
PORTABLE TV SETS are dangerous when used in damp places, e.g., bathroom, laundry, basement, garden or poolside, warns National Safety Council. As a result of accidental electrocution of Chicago boy by portable TV set, General Electric Co. dealers henceforth will make safety check without charge of any G.E. portable bought by their customers...
Pending issues. With poverty souring the country's mood, both cardinal and commissar are constantly trying to damp down the tension between them. Pending issues, which will also constitute a major part of Wyszynski's agenda in his talks with the Pope...
Heaped into sacks and bundled under the stairs of his house, the Datini papers came to light again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up to a unique record of early Renaissance trade and a remarkable story of an early capitalist. British-born Marchesa Iris Origo (Leopardi: A Study in Solitude-TIME, Aug. 2, 1954) has done a brilliant job of sifting the Datini papers and presenting them for the first time as a biographical...