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...paces away in tiny Monaco, Grandma Marlene Dietrich headed for Paris in a huff after Monte Carlo's stuffy old Casino refused to admit her in toreador pants. Another Monte Carlo visitor who fared worse than Marlene was spaniel-faced Cinemadman Mischa (Something Always Happens) Auer. He 1) broke an arm in a fall off a low stool, 2) then suffered a deep cut on his rump in a tumble from bed as he reached for a bottle (mineral water), 3) on rising from his bed of pain, met a friend whose hearty get-well backslap dislocated Auer...
...Desserts. As Parris Island drill instructors go, McKeon had been gentle with the clumsy, eager boots of Platoon 71, whom he supervised as junior D.I. under saltier, tougher-talking Staff Sergeant E. H. Huff. It was McKeon's first platoon after graduation from drill instructors' school, and he aimed to make it the honor outfit of the famed Parris Island boot camp. He encouraged the lads when they shot low scores on the rifle range ("Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it"); he patiently repeated his drill instructions until even the dullest could...
...Miss Grace Kelly ordered the ship's officials to deny first-class privileges to the press and to keep them confined to cabin class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested that a way be found to keep newsmen at a distance. But when the howl went up, she relented. The compromise: there wil be two press conferences aboard ship Reporters will bunk four to a room in cabin class because...
Richard B. Baughman, of Wellesley Hills, first-year medical student; Lee W. Huff, of Highland Park, Mich., a second-year student in the School of Public Administration; John A. Petropopulos, of Lewiston, Me.; and Elizabeth Ann Winegar of Moscow, Ida., received grants averaging $2500 each...
...justice, which the thief." Many observers connected with Harvard have long looked upon the Arnold Arboretum controversy with similar bemusement and unconcern. To them, the problem of housing the Arboretum's botanical library and specimens has been a thorn in the University's side through ten years of huff and puff. But for those people actually touched by the controversy, the solution of the Arboretum dispute is a matter of principle and commonsense...