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...million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...
...feeling like a poor April fool...
...beat the bushes for meat," cried Clint Anderson. "The time has passed when we can fool around with the OPA and price controls. Once the meat pipelines are filled, I can then declare that meat is no longer in short supply and we can have the controls taken off and meat will continue to flow into the channels of trade. That's the quick and reasonable way to end the meat crisis, and I'm confident that that's what will happen...
Martin, Czarobski, Sitlco. . . . Such talk does not fool Notre Dame's millions of subway-circuit alumni. Every butcher boy, beer salesman and politician in the U.S. knows that Notre Dame is loaded...
...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...