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...prodigious restaurant keeper from Bogense who bet 5,000 crowns ($970) in July that in 90 days flat he could, unassisted, pull Denmark's oldest car right around the country's borders. With only three miles and 24 hours to go he stopped at an inn to celebrate the certainty of bagging his bet. He celebrated so heartily that he fell asleep, overslept, lost his bet by one hour...
Precautions went screwy. To prevent autos from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture...
Last week there was little likelihood of Sir Kenneth Clark making a visit to Milan to authenticate a new da Vinci. Sir Kenneth moved his handsome Scottish wife and three children to the country, closed their beautiful house at 30 Portland Place, took rooms in Gray's Inn. As Surveyor of the King's Pictures, Sir Kenneth has the duty of guarding the royal collections at Buckingham Palace, Windsor and Hampton Court. It was a busy week...
...went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen to radio newscasts, until 5 o'clock. He swam for an hour again before returning to the Green Inn to dine on vegetables...
...flight Negro tennists met last week for their 23rd annual national championships, climax of the A. T. A.'s 35 sectional and State tournaments. To watch them came Negro tennis fans from nearly every State in the union. The tony ones stayed at cozy Holly Tree Inn. But most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...