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American tourists were already spreading over Europe. They poured into London at the rate of 1,000 a day. bought out (through June) Stratford's Shakespeare fete, booked all available accommodations for the late summer (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) Edinburgh Festival. In Madrid all hotels were filled, and at the bullfights, Americans sat in the best seats (shade). At 11 o'clock one night last week, no fewer than 75 Americans were happily throwing coins into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain, thus, according to legend, ensuring a return trip...
...show them that we're wide-awake and human and willing to play ball, as it were." Then he went off to peddle his papers, happily turning over in his mind the chances of getting Gregory Peck to make a personal appearance at St. Dunstan's annual fete next month...
...stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly art of the prize ring itself. "The Woodcock-Savold fight and all similar spectacles," she announced at a garden fete, "are neither amusing nor instructive. Mothers and teachers must instruct small boys that fighting with fists or atomic bombs is uncivilized...
Some of the girls' deans have not definitely consented to let their students attend the fete, but most girls expected to get the necessary clearance before 7:30 p.m. dance time...
When her husband was sent to France in 1951, Louise and the two children went along, and she began to compose in earnest. Her biggest (yearlong) musical problem to date: scheming up the orchestral part for La Fete. Although she was unfamiliar with the instruments, she visualized a solution. "To me," she says, "an orchestra is like a palette of a painter. I see the instruments as colors: trumpets are red, violins are green, flutes are blue...