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...hoisted it from the tent to a trench beneath the plane's open bomb bay. Hidden by canvas from all but a superselect few, The Thing was drawn up into the bay. All that could be told about it was that it was big enough to have a foot-high picture of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth pasted on its side. The Thing was called Gilda (after Miss Hayworth's latest movie...
...stairs were in the Hohenzollerns' last architectural effort-the Cecilienhof, a Tudor manor constructed in 1913-17 for the Crown Prince. In a graceful sweep, the stairs descended from Churchill's quarters into the 50-foot-high meeting room. These stairs were meant for a grand entrance, complete with aigrettes and sequins. Obviously (to finicky protocol experts), Churchill could not be allowed to come down the stairs while Truman and Stalin gawked at him from below...
...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
Since then you have read in TIME many of the reports these correspondents have cabled back across the Atlantic-stories like those about the snipers who almost got General De Gaulle-about the foot-high hats and orange-sized earrings Parisiennes were wearing to keep up morale-about the French girl patriot who cried out against shaving the heads of women collaborationists - and many others, contributing all sorts of on-the-spot details to the news now flowing to our editors out of the French capital. And perhaps future stories like these will have added interest if I pass...
...laboratory's lobby, Goodyear's big, brooding board chairman Paul Weeks Litchfield had struck a slogan in foot-high letters: "THE BEST IS YET TO COME." Some glimpses of things to come that Goodyear gave its visitors...