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...says delicately, was "dissolved." Actually, she got a plain Reno divorce in 1928, lived to marry a New York investment counselor named Tellesforo Casanova. After a few years she wrote a novel setting Hal and the world to rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...
...feel the impact. In Seattle barbers boosted haircut prices 25? (to $[.75). In Detroit the board of education warned that hot meals would cost the city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more in freight charges per cwt. on some items than...
...delicate art of cleaning and restoring fading masterpieces was once the province of cautious artisans armed with little more than a magnifying glass, a loaf of fresh bread (without the crust) for gently erasing dirt, and perhaps some soapy water and varnish. Now a new breed of "scientific" restorers, equipped with a surgeon's tools, a chemist's swabs, and a burning curiosity about what lies under the next layer of paint, has moved into most of the world's great museums. At best, their efforts have resulted in such spectacular triumphs as the restoration of Leonardo...
...ubiquitous Billy Graham good for Christianity? Though many will fail to understand how anyone who preaches the Bible could be bad for it, there are those who feel that where the gospel is concerned, half a loaf can be worse than no bread. The Billy Graham debate is waxing hot in the pages of the Protestant weekly Christian Century...
...kinds by the well-heeled Canadian consumer, as well as increased wages, is tending to raise prices. Although the cost-of-living index has held fairly steady since the first of the year, there are signs that it may be heading upward. Bread prices increased 1? a loaf last week; soft-drink dealers added a penny a bottle; brand-name coffee rose to $1.27 a pound...