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...There were some changes from the early days. Queen's Hall, original home of the proms, was bombed during World War II. But Albert Hall, 83 years old and monstrously big (10,000 capacity), took over one of the old building's most beloved attractions: a jetting fountain in the center of the arena floor. Refreshments are no longer served, and promenaders today sometimes bring their own. Biggest change in 60 years of promenading: from bluff Sir Henry Wood, who gets credit for force-feeding his public large helpings of new music (and who used to lock...
...eager hands thrust fountain pens toward the big, swarthy man at the head of the velvet-covered table. Grinning, he dug into a pocket for his own pen, then scribbled his initials on the sheet of paper before him. Suddenly it was over and the room exploded into mad applause; the watching throng-soldiers, government officials, reporters-crowded in to pound his back and plant kisses on his cheek...
...character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands of movie houses...
Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). Crooner Sinatra sings in a strong, wide range about the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, a wishing-well attraction for the tourist. Result: plenty of coins in the jukeboxes...
...partner whose retirement in 1932 has given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling...