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Bananas & Gingerbread. Last June 53-year-old Queen Salote traveled halfway round the world to see and meet Elizabeth at her coronation in London. Many a Londoner still has a vivid impression of the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), infinitely dignified Polynesian monarch as she rode through the rain in her open coronation carriage, disdaining the protection of even an umbrella in deference to her sister sovereign. The cheers that resounded for Queen Salote on London's streets that day were second only in volume (by actual measurement) to those which rang out for Elizabeth herself...
Pigs, Paint, Pineapples. Salote spent the week rushing about her island, keeping the festive spirit under control and supervising all the details of preparation. She saw the last of a spanking new coat of paint slapped on to her white Victorian-gingerbread royal palace, oversaw daily rehearsals of the entertainment program, including the plaintive nose-fluting solos dear to the heart of every Tongan despite the fact that their music is limited to three notes. There were triumphant rustic arches, bearing the legend "I Love You" to be made for the royal route of march, tapa cloth banners...
...strikes me "that our return to political sanity, as evidenced at the polls last November, might just possibly hold some promise of a return to economic sanity and automobiles that are functional to a degree, with the gingerbread and built-in mortgages left...
...April last year, 3,000 Philadelphians sentimentally gathered in the Pennsylvania Railroad's 71-year-old Broad Street Station to see the last train pull out. Though outsiders had long considered the sooty old building an eyesore, Philadelphians were fond of its ornate decorations and neo-Gothic gingerbread, liked to recall that it was once the world's biggest station. As the train left, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra played Auld Lang Syne. Then wreckers went to work to demolish the building and the 40-ft.-high unsightly "Chinese wall" over which the trains had come into the station...
Papers in the chain have been changing their makeup, dumping the old circus & gingerbread style that was a Hearst trademark. In its place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...