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From the start at San Francisco, the Russians left no doubt that they were out to wreck or delay the peace conference. Even before Conference President Dean Acheson finished his opening remarks from the stage of the gilt and red plush Opera House, Andrei Gromyko was demanding to be heard. Why, he wanted to know, had Red China not been invited? Calmly, Acheson declared that the Russian delegate was out of order. Two hours and eleven Red protests later, Gromyko's chance for a filibuster was gone. The conference had adopted a rule limiting each delegation...
...summer of 1947, Casey organized a company called the American Overseas Tanker Corp. He put $20,000 of his own money into the company and raised another $80,000 from a group of stockholders, including such gilt-edged names as the late former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Julius C. Holmes, now U.S. Minister in London. Casey then made arrangements with the Maritime Commission to buy five surplus tankers (original cost: $3,000,000 each) for about $8,500,000. Next, he made an agreement to charter the tankers to a Standard...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...
...diplomatic complications were added spice for society's new season in Madrid. Plain Madrileños kept their eyes on the main course. "All this gilt and polish is very fine," observed one citizen. "But let's hope that something more substantial and necessary will come afterwards : good green American dollars...
...Except for Them . . ." Among the chief assets inherited by Rudolf Bing is the glamorous tradition. Still lurking in the shadows of the old gilt and plush house are the ghosts of the Met's hallowed past, when Sembrich, Lilli Lehmann, the De Reszkes, Melba, Caruso, Farrar and Chaliapin graced the stage, and Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini ruled...