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...York City, with many of its streets still edged with the remains of the Big Snow (TIME, Jan. 5), got seven hours' advance warning of an all-day blizzard whirling in from Cape Hatteras. Caught short before, municipal authorities worked themselves into a mad dither of preparedness; firemen were put on 16-hour emergency duty, 1,400 plows and snow trucks were mobilized. But most of the fuss was needless. The blizzard, such as it was, raged over the city for a few hours, then blew itself...
...been routed to Canada by George from a D.P. camp in Germany. Charged with illegally entering Canada, all seven were jailed. The arrests brought the first news of a passport racket that has been in full swing for nearly a year, has kept Scotland Yard in a dither for weeks...
...Ginny" came out. All season, tall, bangsy Virginia Leigh, 17, had kept Manhattan society reporters in a dither. Not since Brenda Frazier had a sub-deb been so well managed; Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing...
...dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
...market place at Abbiategrasso the women were in a dither. "And this man in Milan," one of them was saying, "can tell, simply by touching a photograph, whether the person in the picture is dead or alive." At the edge of the chattering group dark-eyed, eleven-year-old Antonio Costa listened entranced. He decided to go home and try the trick himself...