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...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...
...castle stands deep within the Ardennes Forest, and in it dwells an aging nobleman who broods over his ancient lineage, his child-wife, and his priceless art collection. It is also occupied by the 314th Replacement Cadre, a foul-spoken band of American fighting boon-dogglers, including a cowboy, an Indian, a composer, a Negro intellectual, an art historian and an ex-preacher. The cadre is commanded by a sex-and-glory-hungry major. It is December 1944, the Germans are preparing to launch the Battle of the Bulge, and the castle bars the road to Bastogne...
...total museum, the Met embraces all the muses. In its collection are 4,000 musical instruments from a baroque organ to Alpine zithers; and the museum's three Stradivarius violins are regularly lent for concerts in the Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Its priceless collection of 1,450 Greek pots includes all the known shapes of Attic vases across three centuries, except for one, an elusive type of lekythos. One corner of the museum contains an unequaled war lord's ransom of well-wrought jade in the Heber R. Bishop collection...
Enders, winner of the Nobel prize and Lasker Foundation Award in 1954, was cited for bringing "priceless gifts to the vast vault of man's burgeoning knowledge." He has been in Harvard's department of bacteriology and immunology since...
...DeLong Star Ruby, 100.32 carats, the world's most perfect star ruby, and J. P. Morgan's Midnight Sapphire, weighing 116.75 carats. Museum officials put the value of the 22 stones at more than $300,000, but the fact was that the three big pieces alone were priceless...