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Throughout Britain last week there was a heady feeling of optimism over the prospect of doing more business with Red China. Back from trade talks with the Chinese Communists at Geneva, top-drawer representatives of British industry burbled about "new possibilities of contact" which had been opened up for Anglo-Chinese trade. The representatives came from such austere bodies as the Federation of British Industries (Britain's N.A.M.), the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and the National Union of Manufacturers. This week the Chinese announced that they will exchange trade missions with Britain...
...madam called Fauna who runs the Bear Flag and once masterminded a flourishing South American export trade in shrunken human heads. She keeps a former competitor's noggin in a desk drawer to remind her of the good old days...
...antique stores. Her Majesty's great green Daimler was a familiar sight parked in front of London shops. When she arrived, sometimes on less than an hour's notice, the dealer closed his doors, let the old lady roam through all crannies. Some dealers kept a special drawer for her, in which they put aside items of the kind she favored. Others, knowing her penchant for exploring, prepared their shops as for an Easter-egg hunt, with curios to a queen's taste hidden where she was sure to find them...
...Cunningham, like many another of his generation, learned to fly airplanes. But sailing became his chief sport. Sparing nothing to get the best boats available, he won time & again in the tough six-meter class, and sailed against the best, e.g., Corny Shields, Arthur Knapp, in the top-drawer International Class. He also began collecting "classic" sports cars. Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing. Cunningham candidly admits that...
...Winner (by Elmer Rice) suggests a playwright ransacking his memory, as though it were a dresser drawer, for bits of plot. The search yields a rather weird assortment: an attractive cigar-counter girl who goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only...