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...whole shebang cost the studios $65,000. Metro's top art men, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Smith, personally did the $10,000 "set" stage: a pylon, backed by six Greek columns, and topped with a 5-ft. gilt plaster replica of Oscar. As the evening slunk by, this gaudy setting was filled with some rare gems...
...party. He was widely admired-first as a roadbuilding, budget-balancing governor of North Carolina, most recently as an Under Secretary of the Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left for London and his new job as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...From the gilt edged ivory towers that line Harvard Square, a music lover almost invariably takes a rather lenient view toward musicians who either laid out a welcome mat for the Nazis or at best knuckled under. "Art and Politics don't have any connection with one another" is the most popular synthesis of this idea. I had always thought that with some obvious exceptions this was true, but an analysis of the situation from another point of observation reveals the entire relationship between such musicians and the Nazi regime in a completely different light...
...Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman: "It makes a change. If we weren't working here, we'd be square-bashing [squad drilling]. Best part about this is the expression on the faces of the housewives when we deliver the goods...
...successor. A Harvard law graduate and a veteran of 15 years in Government, Goodloe had topped his RFC career by drafting the Corporation's reorganization bill. That job was enough to convince George Allen that Goodloe should be his successor. And an Allen recommendation was still gilt-edge with Harry Truman; Goodloe...