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...close brush with a little 2-liter French Gordini and told a friend: "We have to get some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin...
...following two centuries, the history of Canada and much of the U.S. was written along the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes. French colonists carved out their farms on the riverbanks, built the shrines, stone towers and farmhouses that dot Quebec's landscape today. Special ships from France brought the volunteer files du Roi (the King's girls) up the river to marry the lonely habitants and populate New France. In 1759 the river betrayed the colony. The British were able to sail their fleet up its broad stream, conquer Quebec and end the French regime in Canada...
There are checks and stripes and flowery prints, and even polka-dot underwear. And 1955's summer clothes are flexible, as the result of a continuing boom in "separates." There are a thousand different kinds of blouses that look as well with a skirt at a dinner party as with Bermuda shorts at a picnic. In California, bathing-suit makers Cole and Rose Marie Reid have gone so far as to put out "evening convertibles"-swimsuits that can be made into evening dresses by adding fluffy tulle skirts. Price...
...guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
Rock Love (Fontane Sisters; Dot). An easy jump from the Fontanes' popular Hearts of Stone, but less comprehensible. Rock love is something a body has in the heart, like a steamship's giant gyrostabilizer, to keep from floundering on temptation or drifting with the storm...