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...snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze, and the guests skated till dawn...
From its founding in 1897, Electric Boat had been a feast-or-famine company. In World War I, it saw fantastic expansion, built 124 subs for the Allies, but for the next 13 years got not one Government order. In World War II, it whipped out 82 submarines, and ended the war with $5,600,000 cash in reserves. Hopkins sought bargains to even out the submarine business, grabbed up Canadair in 1947 from the Canadian government for $8,000,000, half its cost. In 1949 he got the Canadian license for North American's F-86s, gave Canadair...
...female shape despite the dispute over the relative merits of crimson sweaters with white skirts or white sweaters with crimson skirts. But an arm-swinging, tumbling, jumping, bouncing female--especially of the kind that could be rounded up on Saturday nights to perform at a basketball game--offers little feast for the eyes...
Although Palestrina's Supplicationes receives top billing on the record, I was most impressed by Byrd's Iustorum Animae. Written for the Feast of All Saints, it was arranged for male voices by Harvard's Professor A. T. Davison. Here is an excellent union of sound and meaning, culminating with the word "mortis," in complete relaxation and immobility. The Glee Club handles the interlocking phrases and constantly shifting melodic lines so skillfully that the general effect is coherent and logical...
...politicians] really suppose,"asked Waugh, "that Tito, who has betrayed in turn King, friends and finally his one consistent loyalty to Stalin, will prove a trustworthy friend to them? . . . Tito is seeking to extirpate Christianity in Yugoslavia . . . Mr. Eden would not invite the country to feast and flatter a notorious Jew-baiter. Only when Christianity is at stake do our leaders show bland indifference...