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...luxury liners -and whether its plans to build nine such liners made any sense. It has already postponed bids to build four such ships because of the shortage of materials. And it still has on its hands the biggest white elephant of all-the Normandie. Even in her heyday she lost money. Last week the Commission asked for bids to cut her up for scrap, feared that no one would buy her. A West Coast oil company suggested that she be used for bulk storage of oil, but shippers thought the idea impractical...
...Morning has enough to satisfy the hard core of Wodehouse readers (the average, annual P. G. W. novel sells 10,000 copies in the U.S.). But it has only a trace of real mirth for those who believe that in spasmodic moments of his heyday, Wodehouse was one of Britain's most talented comic writers...
...years Cobalt was a ghost town. Then in 1940 it hit the comeback trail. The war created a heavy U.S. demand for cobalt as an alloy in cutting tools. In the town's heyday, get-rich-quick silver miners had tossed cobalt ore aside as useless; now it was worth over 80? a pound, and the old cobalt dumps were in demand...
...Rightly speaking," Gandhi answered, "the true purpose of marriage should be and is intimate friendship and companionship between man and woman. ... I may say that my wife and I tasted the real bliss of married life when we renounced sexual contact and that in the heyday of youth. It was then that our companionship blossomed and both of us were enabled to render real service to India and to humanity in general...
...Anybody," quipped Wilde in his heyday, "can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature . . . to sympathize with a friend's success." Biographer Pearson's sympathy is broad enough to cover both aspects of Wilde's career. He has chosen to stress Wilde the drawing-room wit, the extravagant fop, the brilliant author of comedies as sparkling as any ever written for the English stage...