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EXECUTIVE ACTION: Any violent action including assassination or sabotage or, in Britain, arrest. The Soviets call it mokrye dela (wet stuff...
France's Honoré Daumier had a way of drawing out the nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...United Nations Special Fund recently agreed to spend $1,157,000 on a five-year project to expand an agricultural experimental station in Cuba's Dela Degas...
...years, Producer Gurian has been looking for what might be called a clean bomb-a low-radiation play that he could take on the road before Manhattan critics could blast it. Last week after having read more than 400 scripts, Actress Harris opened to warm reviews in Wilmington, Dela. in her husband's production of The Warm Peninsula, an impish tale of a good little Milwaukee girl's search for glamour in Miami. Before even getting near Broadway, Peninsula will live out of its trunks for a full year, is booked to play in 19 U.S. cities...
...weeks after Delaplane's demonstration came a startled cable from Ire land to a San Francisco liquor importer: WHAT'S HAPPENING? The answer: Dela plane had touched off a craze for Irish coffee. In San Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish...