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...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...
...bottle minder that keeps the milk cold until feeding time, then automatically warms it. When it is ready, it sounds an alarm to wake up mother. To make sure baby goes back to sleep, the Evenflo-Lullaby bottle plays Brahms's Lullaby. For the household pets, the new est drinks are Dog Nog and Cat Lap-canned milk for animals, develooed by onetime New York Advertising Man Arthur D. Talbott. While conducting market research on milk use, Talbott discovered that 25% of evaporated milk was bought to feed animals, realized that there was a rich market for a special...
...buses from 32 states rolled into Albuquerque last week, 1,129 teenage voices inside howled in eerie chorus. The tunes sounded oddly like Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here and Let Me Call You Sweetheart. They came out as "lo, lo, omnes adsunt,/ Quid curae est nobis/ Quid curae est nobis . . ." and "Vocabo te amicam/ Ego amo te/ Audiam te dicer e/ Te amare me . . ." It was the Junior Classical League, holding its seventh national convention at the University of New Mexico...
...small girls wish there were fewer small boys, and babies all wish there was no such thing as strained spinach. Nevertheless, there is scarcely a man or woman living in all those hills and groves beyond the cities who does not sing with Martial: Rtis mihi dulce sub urbe est...
...Porter. Alto Saxophonist Carter and Pianist Schaefer romp exuberantly, with the aid of assorted sidemen. through I Love Paris, Anything Goes, You're the Top, transforming these Broadway classics into a crackling bed of hot Coles. Arranger Schaefer's most improbable invention: a version of C'est Magnifique opening with a snatch of the Lohengrin wedding march...