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London's enterprising Daily Mirror had reporters explore the Mountbatten honeymoon house at Broadlands before it was barred to the press. Thus the Mirror, by dint of a little imagination, was able to take its readers across the threshold and right up to lights...
Sweet Tooth. The villain seemed indeed to be the British Government, which through its British Cocoa Control Board last year sold some 300,000 tons, about half the world output. It sets the pace for similar Government agencies in Brazil and the Dominican Republic. All three, by dint of shrewd timing in deliveries, have made fat profits in the U.S. market. But the British were not wholly responsible for the price rise...
...sketched by Nabokov with a disgusted charm unequaled by contemporary satirists. He has an ear for the obscene overtones of the dictator's loudspeaker: " 'From now on,' continued the tremendously swollen Tyrannosaurus, 'the way to total joy lies open. You will attain it, brothers, by dint of ardent intercourse with one another ... by adjusting ideas and emotions to those of a harmonious majority ... by letting your person dissolve in the virile oneness of the State...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
...little unreal. Slick Goodlin seemed oddly like a man begging to be shot out of a cannon. But Slick didn't think so. Like Columbus, Magellan and the Wright brothers, he was just doing what came naturally. He had been flying almost continuously for seven years, first by dint of washing planes at an airport near his grandfather's Greensburg, Pa. farm, then as a flying officer in the R.C.A.F., then as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and finally as a member of Bell's test staff...