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...luncheon coffee at the Elysee Palace arrives gaunt Rene Pleven, to announce that he cannot form a government after all because the Radicals refuse to support his choice of Andreé Morice, a "tough-line" man on Algeria, as Minister of Defense. With a sigh President Coty folds his napkin. Nothing for it but to send out telegrams canceling the Assembly meeting-something that has never before occurred under the Fourth Republic-and to call on someone else to try and form a government...
...dined quickly but carefully, a white linen napkin spread on his lap, and dropped a few tablets of sacchrine into his black coffee. Professor Beer, who uses sugar and cream, put his napkin on the table and began to question Russell...
...footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched minx. Embittered and ruined, he became porter...
Grapefruit & Grace. Architect Saarinen sleeps, eats and dreams architecture, reduces just about every experience in life to architectural terms, reaches for the nearest napkin or note pad to graph everything from adolescent rates of learning to the qualities that make up a beautiful woman. Last week, as his wife watched with fascination, he casually turned over his breakfast grapefruit, began carving out elliptical parabolic arches which he then carried off to the office to see if they might do as an idea for the office model of T.W.A.'s new terminal at Idlewild...
...doorknob he had clasped, hating the napkin...