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Manhattan importers were six months, behind with their orders. Porcelain fanciers, in an invisible but impatient queue, waited last week for their ceramic birds, which they bought as fast as they could be imported from Britain. The superbly color-glazed, life-sized birds, perched in natural flower and branch settings, cost from $250 to $475 a pair...
Following is a tentative schedule of graduation agenda of the Junior class--10-43-NTS Harvard. Class flower: spinach; class motto; Horas omnes reported Most likely to succeed: Admiral King; most handsome: Lt. (jg) Robert Taylor; Best duty: Betty Grable (howinhell did that get in here...
...Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there can never be permanent peace. Only truces...
...first great draftsman of Europe. . . . [He] tries to grasp man as a product of nature. . . . His new conception of nature ... is . . . immediately expressed in his drawings of animals, plants, trees, and landscapes. He looks with new eyes on the broad realm of creation and discovers in the pulpy flower or plant something zoömorphic, and in the animal something plantlike. He sees trees as tender, trembling creatures hovering in the soft air; landscape is for him no longer a mere background to man but a space filled with light...
Half hour later, Britain's busy Mosquitoes stung Frankfurt again, demoralized its weary firefighters. That pattern, by night and by day, will flower into bloody bloom in many another German city before spring...