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These somber omens overhung the Moscow talks on Finland's future. Last week the Kremlin sent a special plane to fetch ailing Finnish Premier Mauno Pekkala, to join the Finnish mission negotiating a "friendship" pact. Finns feared the worst...
Meanwhile Ricci had gone to fetch a couple of bottles of Chianti to give his caller as a Christmas present. He entered the study carrying the wine. Capocci brusquely announced he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, produced a large pair of tailor's scissors. He took them apart and challenged Ricci to a duel. He handed the blunt part of the scissors to the Minister and said: "I take it that as a gentleman you choose this...
This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Hollywood's Temptation. A favorite complaint of the writers is that Hollywood's big money is the ruination of many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous...
...Razor blades are pretty much in demand right now," said Moische last week in his hoarse, flat voice. "Yesterday we got an order for 50,000 of them for Poland, and we are getting them together now. In Stettin they will fetch a good high price. Most everything is scarce in Poland nowadays. Take sewing-machine needles. They are much better than gold or precious stones. We sent 2,000,000 to Warsaw recently. We buy them for 2½ marks a package in the British zone, mostly through doctors who get interzonal passes easily and like to make some...