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...rats, the cockroaches, the sagging floors, the drafts and faulty plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...
When Maestro Toscanini scooted onstage, music-lovers in the peanut galleries leaned over the rails to hiss the buzz-buzz in the parquet into silence. Then, in the still, warm, muggy air (two women in the crowded audience fainted), they listened for three hours to the romantic music of Poet-Musician Arrigo Boito, whom all Milan was honoring on the 30th anniversary of his death...
Sanders Theatre's usual grim atmosphere gave way last night almost enough to permit James Otis to hop off his pedestal and take a seat in the parquet. A rousing, unselfconscious performance by the celebrated Harvard University Band; several ad lib remarks delivered from the podium by director Malcolm Holmes including his introduction of "Wintergreen" as a "New England folk song dating from the seventeenth century"; and an extremely responsive audience who howled with appreciation after each number in true Soldiers Field tradition were responsible for the transformation...
...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...
...Embassy on the Place de la Concorde had not yet been reopened. But Janitor Pierre Bizet, who had stayed on during the entire German occupation, was ready to sweep its parquet floors and polish its crystal chandeliers. In the speculation as to the new U.S. Ambassador to France, current guesses gave the job to able Norman Armour, now marking time in Washington since his recall from Argentina (TIME, July...