Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Timber Topper. In Pasadena. Calif., after he flushed a midnight prowler from his house, chased him out the back door and was outdistanced in a dash across the yard. House Owner Ronald L. Miller watched while the burglar easily hurdled the back fence, noticed that he wore a pair of spiked track shoes...
Filet Mignon at Breakfast. Aboard the presidential plane was young David Eisenhower, on his way home from summer camp and a week with grandfather. As soon as the Columbine was aloft, David, at grandfather's insistence, exchanged his Davy Crockett outfit for a pair of white pajamas with red dots. Within a few minutes he was snug in a berth in the President's private compartment. Ike turned in soon after...
Double Cross? Last year Sun was kicked upstairs to the empty job of personal chief of staff to Chiang, and installed in a pair of tiny, dark rooms. People said that the Gimo was keeping him near enough to watch. He was almost never asked to high command conferences...
...18th Century Venetians: Canaletto's near-photographic panoramas of Venice could be bought for a few hundred dollars 15 years ago, now cost up to $30,000. A small pair of cityscapes by Francesco Guardi sold for $7,700 in 1946, brought $25,200 at auction in London last March. One reason for the comeback: the present fashion for imitation 18th century interiors. (Because early Renaissance furniture does not appeal to decorators this year, prices for Italian primitives are down...
Kirsten Flagstad (Victor). Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, both gentle and dramatic, sung with the melting grace and liquid power that few singers can match. An interesting comparison can be made with A Milanov Recital (also Victor), in which the Metropolitan Opera soprano pours her opulent tones into a pair of the same tunes (among others), but makes them sound like Verdi...