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President Eisenhower's bid turned out to be a gem of political strategy. The President diplomatically stated...
...money Cradle Song is still a perfect gem of a play. The Sierras have used very few words from the dramatic alphabet, but with them they have managed to say a great many things about human nature. Indeed, the irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions, of love--seems to be the central theme of the play. The young girls in the convent have renounced worldly things, yet within the limits of monastic walls and rules their youthfulness and vitality burst forth in many ways--in girlish giggling, in writing poems, in squabbling with the other nuns. Most important...
Secrets of the Reef (Butterfield & Wolf) is a submarine gem, dredged from the waters of the Bahamas and Florida's Marineland oceanarium and polished by three bright young Harvardmen (Lloyd Ritter, Robert Young and Murray Lerner). The product of a three-year effort and a paltry $150,000, it is one of the best films thus far of the brave new underworld of the skindiver, where the actors are all baresark and the dialogue is in bubbles...
...inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept step, and only the country's famed gem stones are real bargains. In Peru, too, local prices have mostly caught up with the 1949 devaluation, but $60 to $80 a month will still rent a five-room apartment in a good Lima suburb...
...lensmen from his palace and Wednesday's civil wedding (the religious ceremony is two days later). Wedding gifts kept pouring in, karat upon karat. From the principality itself and the Casino came, according to Newshen Inez Robb, "some basic or all-purpose diamonds": a $224,000 set of gem-crusted earrings, bracelet, necklace, ring and clips...