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...sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt's for gimcracks: rows of art gum erasers, each neatly labeled, trays of pens, pencils, different colors and kinds of inks. He has two pianos in the narrow room, a grand and an upright, and still does his composing at the piano...
Closemouthed. In Chicago, police who arrested Mitchell Wrona declared that he had hidden $6,500 worth of stolen diamonds in his chewing gum...
...York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...come to depend on Varnay. In the six years since her Manhattan debut, she has sung more Wagnerian leads than any other Met performer. She is a small woman with grey eyes who likes bad puns, saves box tops and chews bubble gum. Still young (she made her debut at 23) and still slim, as divas go, she strides through each new role like a veteran. Critics have been respectful to her rich voice, have called her performances "creditable," have applauded her plucky last-minute substitute jobs...
...reparations under the Potsdam Agreement. The buyer, Henry J. Kaiser, moved the machinery out on 60 flatcars for reassembly at his Permanente Metals Corp., at Los Altos. By January, he hopes to begin turning out 500,000 pounds a month of foil for cigarettes and gum...