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Then, last month, Ike Eisenhower lost his patience, began to do a little discreet knuckle-rapping. Under Ike's prodding the French gave up some of their demands, the Germans began to warm to the Pleven plan. Last week the Paris delegates initialed an interim report on a European army suggesting...
...Ornithologist Richdale admits that his theory is still just a theory. During all his ten seasons of careful observation, he never once saw the discreet penguins actually mating...
...there are the favorite haunts which the girls visit regularly, including the Cider Mill, a museum about two miles from the campus; the solarium, the discreet roof of Kenyon Hall "for unrestricted sunbathing"; and the Alumnae House pub and Retreat, two campus food dispensaries...
...veteran newsman, and sports editor of the Journal for 13 years, had suspected for a long time that Madison Square Garden basketball games were fixed to come out right for the gamblers. A few months ago, he began dropping in casually on gambling joints and sports hangouts, asking discreet questions and listening. With a few facts to justify his suspicions, Kase also turned his reporters loose on the job of trying to discover the "fix guy" who was arranging to bribe the players. One night a "source" gave Kase a name. After fitting his facts together, Kase took them...
...afternoon last week a little troupe of four, all wearing the discreet air of superior domestics, filed through the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera House. They went directly to the star dressing room, unwrapped their parcels, and began hanging yellow brocade. By 6 p.m., all was ready for their mistress: the ugly green walls and dowdy dressing table were resplendent with silk. It was the royal treatment, for it is not every day that Maria Jeritza comes back to sing...