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HONEY IN THE HORN (RCA Victor). Trumpeter Al Hirt piped such a jolly rendition of Java that he's had nothing but good news ever since. Honey, with Java in it, remains in perpetual motion in the record shops, and now two more bestselling collections have flowed from Hirt...
With all that, Scott still finds time for games. A champion sailplane pilot, he set a British record in 1960 by soaring to an altitude of 18,300 ft. He won a bronze medal in sailing at the 1936 Olympics, and he is a three-time winner of Britain'...
Mary Poppins. It is jolly old London, 1910, and one proper English family is all adither over the servant problem. Having put a whole series of nannies to rout, the two Banks youngsters compose a want ad listing desirable qualifications: cheery disposition, rosy cheeks, plays games. Father tears it up...
The R.A.F. is no better. On Gibraltar, "only part of one squadron was operational, yet the R.A.F. personnel numbered about 1,200." In Singapore, the R.A.F. maintains a full brass band, at a cost of ?85,000 a year. Wrote the Daily Mirror when it found out: "We all know...
He proceeded to build a seven-story pavilion with exposed, welded posts and beams. Nestled in a tree-rimmed ravine, where 100 water jets spout a car pet of spray over a lake (cooling the air-conditioning system), the raw-beamed facade flails the air like some forgotten, gargantuan reaper...