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Performed by FRETWORK...
Individual owners added original touches, too, and a tour of the homes jammed into the triangle of Old Town would turn up hand-carved wooden doors, airy fretwork porticos and everywhere gardens-gardens with roses, gardens with grinning stone cherubs, gardens with piping-satyr fountains...
Ardentown, Del., Robin Hood Theater: Tennessee Williams' delicate fretwork, The Glass Menagerie, his first...
...radio, a wine cellar, a fully equipped kitchen, a cuckoo clock, an amiable tabby. Milk and papers are delivered every morning by the local tradesmen. The turnkey knocks timidly before entering and walks the cat upon request. Morning massage by a cellmate is followed by classes in basket weaving, fretwork and (when the warden looks the other way) safe blowing...
Cash & Concessions. While this normal fretwork of the politicians went on, the general himself calmly busied himself with the here and now. To supply the government with ready cash, and to sop up excess purchasing power, wispy Fi put on sale 3.5% tax-free government bonds, which as a hedge against inflation will be pegged to the market value of the gold napoleon (last week 3.600 francs). While De Gaulle appealed to patriotism in launching the loan. Pinay remembered the practical side. In the hope of attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen...