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...premiere on television last week. The film, Paramount's Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden, was not very good. But the TV audience was not very large either; it consisted only of those who could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription TV. system that is partly owned by Paramount. Like its rivals...
...Palm Beach, Fla., has replaced Bermuda as the site of the varsity lacrosse team's Christmas vacation tour...
There was a crisp wind blowing up Tokyo Bay and Vag watched the palm trees some Admiral's wife ordered planted bending crazily in the chilling breeze. Somehow, thought Vag, those should be elm trees. Funny thing how these cool autumn days in Japan brought back memories of Cambridge in the fall--how on cold November days Vag speculated whether or not he should shift from chinos to gray flannels. Vag remembered that, of course, he never did. Even those Japanese kids were beginning to resemble. Harvard Square urchins. But, decided Vag, the propositions they were screaming were even more...
...Palm Sunday. Though Grant winced at the human cost, he was dogged enough to go on paying it month after month. But what the Union was losing in blood, the Confederacy was losing in ground and hope. Sherman took Atlanta, Sheridan wheeled through the Shenandoah and sent 60 miles of that fertile valley up in smoke. By the spring of 1865 Richmond fell easily, and Lee and the remnants of his army were boxed in near Appomattox Court House...
Fifty years later, a Pennsylvania veteran remembered fraternizing with Confederate soldiers on the Palm Sunday that Lee surrendered to Grant: "As soon as I got among these boys I felt and was treated as well as if I had been among our own boys, and a person would of thought we were of the same Army and had been Fighting under the Same Flag...