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Perle Mesta is the capital's No. 1 hostess, a position she had inherited, almost by default, from a long line of free-spending, haughty, and sometimes charming dowagers. Hostess Mesta had discovered a useful and economical secret: her kind of guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...
...society can endure only if its members agree on a body of essential principles and purposes. In a free society, the agreement cannot be forced; but it must be present nonetheless. For centuries, Western man believed in the Natural Moral Law as expounded by Aristotle, Aquinas, Blackstone. This law was found neither in legislation nor divine revelation (although it posits the existence of God); it is achieved by examining human nature and reaching legal rules based on the findings. In practice, the most notable expression of Natural Moral Law was, and is, the English common law. Under the acceptance...
Unwanted Workers. A few days before that, Comrade Evita broke the printers' strike that had kept the capital without newspapers for three weeks. This was accomplished by importing 58 printers from the provinces. She personally handed each man $210, promised $20 a day and free meals at the fancy midtown El Ciervo restaurant, then packed all of them off to plants where they were needed most. One by one, the newspapers reappeared. By week's end the strikers were back at work -except for 40%, who had lost their jobs in the shuffle...
Wednesday night in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presented the second in its spring term series of free concerts. In a program which was too long and too varied, no one would have missed the Beethoven March, nor did the somewhat uninspired rendition of Mozart's Sonata in D Major justify its inclusion. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro showed their grasp of the nineteenth century, however, in Schubert's Eight Variations, which predicted the styles of his successors with remarkable accuracy...
...signs of life. Behind, 18 to 4, at the eight minute mark, the Crimson suddenly caught fire, and on three set shots by Walt McCurdy, two hooks by John Rockwell, and a pair of fouls by Ed Smith, moved within two points of the home team. Two quick free throws borke the ice for the Tigers, and they moved to a 31 to 22 lead at the half...