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...rainy afternoon last week, President Eisenhower took over a chore for his wife and came face to face with an angry alligator. Because of the bad weather, Mamie Eisenhower, just recovered from the flu, was unable to make a scheduled appearance at the National Capital Flower and Garden Show. "I've been a lot of places in my life," Ike said as he took her place, "but this is my first jaunt to a flower show. If I make any mistakes, don't hold it against...
Since a Type I wife is a "rare flower," a likely alternative is "Type II . . . a much commoner species." Pretty, educated and sensitive, she adds to rather than fits into the farm scene, is more suitable for the farmer who inherited his land from grandpa than for the poor but ambitious tiller of the soil. For her, intelligence and education are not necessarily handicaps; she "should be able to carry on a conversation with either the hired hand or a banker whose note is due . . . She should look well in blue jeans. It's not good if she runs...
...real, but really only a part of Japan. The stenographer who trips along in high heels and Western dress is often hurrying home for a quiet lesson in flower arranging. The man who elbows his way into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow two or three ceremonial bows to an acquaintance. The Western-tailored businessman returns at night to a severely plain house of wood and paper. At the entrance he takes off his shoes, steps onto a straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning...
Died. William C. de Mille. 76. veteran playwright (Strongheart, The Warrens of Virginia) and motion picture director (Craig's Wife, Passion Flower), onetime (1941-53) head of the University of Southern California's drama department, brother of Producer-Director Cecil B. De-Mille and father of Choreographer Agnes de Mille; in Playa del Rey. Calif...
...unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...