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...Chamber of Commerce fell for the alleged "$300,000 boondoggle" [May 20] in the President's national defense budget. The $300,000 is the sole Government contribution to a program which involves nearly 4,000 civilian rifle and pistol clubs in the U.S. These clubs are not the plush hunting clubs so graphically pictured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They are modest clubs of marksmen who, on their own time, on their own ranges, and largely with their own weapons, keep alive the art of rifle marksmanship. The contribution made by the U.S. Government is largely in the form of very...
...become a big-name cinemactress. A newshawk asked Rossellini if he had ever told one of Sonali's kinsfolk that he wants to marry her. Suavely replied Roberto: "On the spur of the moment you say things you are not responsible for." Meanwhile, Sonali stayed put in her plush, air-conditioned quarters while the jasmine-scented nights of Bombay grew oppressively hotter...
...your article on Milton Cross and the Metropolitan Opera [April 29): the "Texan who had one of the plush seats sent to him so he could 'listen in style' " happened to be me. While in New York in 1937, I read that the Metropolitan Opera House was being renovated. Mr. Brown, the building superintendent, let me pick out the seat that I wanted, and had it sent to me. Its back has the original upholstery put there...
...velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when the Met was being refurbished, a Texan had one of the plush seats sent to him so that he could "listen in style." One devotee left the Met $2,000 in her will "as a token of my sincere appreciation" for the broadcasts. (One year a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners.) And a cowboy...
...visitors, led by Daisuke Takaoka, conservative member of Japan's Diet, got red-carpet treatment all the way. General Lemnitzer himself flew down with them. Tokyo, genially wined and dined them at the plush Ryukyus Command Officers' Club. Scooting about the island in a fleet of khaki-colored Chevrolets escorted by white-helmeted MPs. the Japanese talked with everyone from the Communist mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press...