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...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...
...affairs for 1948, various things happened to upset the dignity of delegates. The Palais de Chaillot's elevator operators went out on a quickie strike, followed by the dining room waiters. Fire broke out in an unoccupied committee room. During the Palestine debate in the great green & gilt plenary room, a balcony photographer dropped a film can on Turkey's table. Worst of all, brash young Garry Davis, who calls himself a citizen of the world (TIME, Sept. 20, 27), and who has needled the Assembly since September, pulled a crowd of 20,000 to hear him speak...
...these men he gave an intensive, 12-hour, two-day course in all the problems of being a Santa Claus, including make-up and psychological approach. Then, giving each a handsome diploma, Josko sent them into the world--local department stores that had signed up for his genuine, reliable, gilt-edged St. Nicks...
...steps of the Indoor Athletic Building, Barbara Sorenson, Radcliffe '51, received a gilt crown from President Charles MacWhorter of the club as a token of her winning the title of "HYRC Beauty Queen...
...show had a little of everything. In the early hours of Thursday morning radio bulletins began shrilling news of a conspiracy to murder Perón. The assassination, broadcasters cried, was to have occurred on the "Day of the Race," Oct. 12, at an opera gala in the gilt-and-plush Teatro Colón. His wife, blonde Eva Duarte Perón, was to have been killed with...