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...Outfitted in a fly-front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...used to finding Reds under the bed, but this was different. Last week Hearstling Columnist Paul Mallon took an off-duty peek beneath the crazy-quilt of modern art-and jumped. Said he, in an open letter to the boss (which was duly featured, without Mr. Hearst's reply, in the boss's papers...
...everything to meet the current overwhelming demand can inflation be licked. But making enough things right now is absurdly unprofitable because 1) material costs have soared and 2) labor productivity at Ford's has dropped 34% in four years. As proof, he gave the public more of a peek into Ford company books than it has ever had before...
...muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Winston Churchill, last in Cuba as an impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given...