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Romantic Linda is the heroine of Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...
Patrick Hurley's resignation rampage served another purpose. It turned the beam of public interest on the State Department-and on one of its dustier aspects. As many besides Pat Hurley had long known: 1) on many points of foreign relations, particularly with China, the Department is as divided as China itself; 2) the day-to-day direction and implementation of policy is sometimes in the hands of men opposed...
Architecture has long been considered by many to be a dusty compatriot of archaeology, that superficially dustier aspect of the history of man on the earth. Now such an attitude on the part of most people is not so much attributable to architecture itself as it is to its exponents and their manner of presenting the art to the average, and usually artistically phlegmatic, individual. Of the comparatively few men who have succeeded in making a small part of our population structure-conscious. Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps foremost. "Man takes a positive hand in creation whenever he puts...
...noon sunlight of a clear, biting November day showed the air of the class-room in Sever to be a bit dustier, the walls a bit dingier, the benches a bit more battle-scarred than could have been suspected in the morning half-light. The instructor listened with a faint boredom to the halting translation which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort...
Belgians were privileged, last week, to behold Her Majesty attired in a long pair of "harem trousers" reaching down to her shoes and fastened spatwise under the insteps. The Queen had worn the garment on the dustier stages of Their Majesties' recent tour of the Belgian Congo. "They are practical, ces pantalons colonials," smiled Her Majesty, "and many Belgian women in our Congo find them indispensable centre les insectes...