Word: kits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With the proceeds from their concert, 70 of them would climb aboard a Stratocruiser in two weeks, take off, kit & caboodle, for a two-month tour of Scandinavia...
...just a publicity stunt for BOAC. Washington's Educational Services, a serious-minded outfit dedicated to the proposition of "Recordings for more effective learning," had arranged the show to promote the latest wrinkle in learning-while-sleeping devices. Educational Services is planning to put out a tape-recording kit with instructions for learning anything from good behavior (for children) to old Danish...
...Each kit will contain a "Prelude" for lesson-takers about to retire ("You are going to sleep now. It is getting deeper and deeper and deeper and dee . . ."). Next morning a "Postlude" will explain that in order to make the lesson stick, pupils should read it over quickly in the accompanying printed text...
...rebel tossed her curls, then turned to her white-faced chauffeur. "There now, Felix," she said. "Don't look so worried. Go on home and send me my prison kit. Take good-care of the dogs. Everything will be all right...
Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready...