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...naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Brazilian Studies...
...moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...
Last week, as the Senate droned on about slums in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, Illinois' freshman Senator Paul Douglas invited his colleagues to inspect the slums that lie within the shadow of the Capitol. Four Senators made the first trip; seven the second. With Douglas as guide, the first group-Republicans Wayne Morse, Homer Ferguson, Raymond Baldwin and Democrat Theodore Green-set out with the air of men exploring an Arabian casbah...
...slogging shoppers as well as the carriage trade; this week its chaste ad in the New York Times offered gold brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
...Majesty Queen Mary, 81, was still getting around well enough to inspect some converted London flats being occupied by lower-income businesswomen...