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...Gardener's Cottage." Resettled farther up Fifth Avenue in a 28-room pile which she termed "The Gardener's Cottage," Mrs. Vanderbilt lost none of her queenly manner. Convinced that Vanderbilts were a breed apart, she sometimes described herself as "all alone in the house," when there were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort...
Last week Matteo Pistillo the world-beater led 431 of his comrades into San Severo's municipal theater, and there, before Christian Democratic Party workers who could not quite believe it, had them pile their Communist Party cards on the table and sign up as members of the Christian Democratic Party. "Friends, there are no more traitors here," announced the worldbeater. "We free men are choosing the way of justice." It was the biggest mass defection from Italy's Communist Party (the best-entrenched in Western Europe) since...
...better than its defense. In the Rose Bowl game last week some 100,000 fans and millions of televiewers got a good look at some of the best defensive play of the year. The rugged Southern California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental: the booming punting of Southern Cal's Desmond...
Industry itself (notably Detroit Edison, Dow Chemical, Monsanto Chemical) has already worked out many of the research bugs in adapting an atomic pile to commercial power. Says Detroit Edison's President Walker Cisler: "We hope to have [a commercial plant] operating perhaps in the next five years." The Chips Are Down But there will be one notable difference in U.S. business in 1953. There will be so much civilian production that businessmen will have to tax their ingenuity to improve their products and sell them...
...passenger trains. But they are ideal for hauling fast freight over U.P.'s mountainous track and can, like a diesel, run 300 to 400 miles without refueling or stopping for water. By using them only on such runs, Stoddard figures that U.P. will save on maintenance, and pile up plenty of know-how against the day when gas turbines are improved enough for general service...