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That night, a gilt-edged statement was issued from Buckingham Palace: "The King has been pleased to nominate the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D., Lord Bishop of London, for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in place of the late Right Honourable and Most Reverend William Temple, D.D., Lit. D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan...
Martha Gellhorn, 36, gilt-haired, restless novelist-correspondent (for Collier's), wife of Collier's War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway, driving between Toulouse and Paris, lost control of her car after a blowout, dived over a 16-ft. embankment, cracked...
Crab Apple Jelly contains a dozen simple, tart tales of the men, women & children of Cork and Kerry. The townsmen - clerks, shopkeepers, shabby priests, students, girls who dream of America - live in a retired world of mahogany cabinets with glass fronts, gilt mirrors with cupids, sets of the History of the Popes, cheap alarm clocks on bedside tables. Snatches of whiskey, poteen or brandy turn them from sighs to smiles in the wink of an eye. Back of them are the old stone farms and grey walls of their childhood-homes huddled away on islands in the middle of lakes...
...season opened with less than its usual quota of mink and diamonds, with slightly less than its usual quota of artistic quality, but with a record quota of enthusiasm. The newly prosperous, aided and abetted by soldiers and sailors on leave, not only jampacked the plush and gilt auditorium but indulged in ecstasies of applause. In fact, during the second night's Don Giovanni, indiscriminate applause became such a problem that Conductor George Szell had to shush his audience with threatening gestures...
...Victor and the Living Buddha. Emily's Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said...