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...Hollywood knows that Restaurant LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
...face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape of a ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes he talked about his unfinished work, said he would have become a greater poet than Tasso...
Russian summer and invasion time came to Moscow together. Flower girls hawked lilacs and forget-me-nots. Soda-water wagons rolled through the streets with neighborhood kids in tow. Workers hurried home at day's end to spade their victory gardens. The Moscow River brightened with canoes and racing shells. There were concerts and operettas in the parks. The trees along the Kremlin's wall turned a lovely green. Fresh coats of paint shone on the trams and busses...
...Thames, there was sculling as usual. At the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in Westminster, a new iris called "Radiant" aroused much interest in its light apricot and crimson-bronze shadings. London's hordes of strangers in uniform thinned out. Londoners felt that they were at last getting back their own town. It was even possible to get a restaurant table without advance booking...
...authorities sought ways to cheer the dour people. Amid Berlin's debris 72 movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...