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While dismissing Poland as "the most tiresome question," Churchill told Stalin: "At present each [Great Britain and the Soviet Union] had a game cock in his hand." When the translator explained the double meaning of Churchill's remark, Stalin retorted with a coarse Georgian sense of humor: "It is difficult to do without cocks...
Mitchell was singed first by Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge on a subject on which Mitchell almost cockily considered himself totally prepared. The crusty Georgian mentioned a well-publicized incident from Richard Kleindienst's Senate confirmation hearings to succeed Mitchell as Attorney General in March 1972. On that occasion Mitchell had testified that he had no political duties while serving as Attorney General. This assertion seemed to be contradicted by the testimony of many witnesses, including Mitchell himself, before the Ervin committee...
Weese is convinced that renovation almost always costs less than leveling old buildings and constructing anew. Boston's old Jewett Theater, an intimate Georgian structure, would have cost at least $5,000,000 to replace. Boston University is spending $400,000 to fix it up. Even less striking buildings are worth refurbishing. Weese is currently starting a project, funded by the Federal Housing Administration, to rehabilitate an elegant, old three-story walk-up apartment house in a Chicago slum. "You can't duplicate it today," he says. "Saving this kind of building saves a bit of the urban...
PICTURE a wealthy suburb of Detroit--sprawling Georgian housefronts set on man-made rolls of lawns smooth as golf greens. Except for the maids and gardeners, the houses are empty during the day--husbands off at work, kids chauffered out of sight. Meantime, the wives play ladies doubles, attend benefit teas, Junior League meetings, fund raising planning sessions, art patrons gatherings, reading groups. The women spend much busy time together, most of it talk time. They talk about the kids, the husbands, the movies in town, in deprecating tones of the latest divorces, in defensive tones of the headlines they...
...passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...