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...once immaculate parking place was covered with fox holes and the pup tents of the marines, who were heating their morning rations over small wood fires. There was only one link left with the past. In one corner of the lot, gutted and tireless, its once shiny hood and fenders burned a dull red, was the Buick. It still bore its diplomatic license plate: CDA 253. Evidently the Communists weren't able to start it, either...
...great many other Americans felt the same way. For the past fortnight that Russian face on the nation's television screens blocked not only Howdy Doody, but such other favorites as Lucky Pup, and Life with Snarky Parker. But the show that replaced them-a curious mixture of boredom and excitement, alternating long-winded oratory with sharp, electrifying statements of historic rights & wrongs-was definitely worth America's while. To millions of Americans it brought the unique experience of seeing the enemy right in their living room...
...sleazy magic of television; city Scouts complained to 34 aid stations of bumps, sprains and poison ivy. To Louisiana Scouts, the British served tea. Other Southerners saw a kilted Scot amiably explaining cricket to a khaki-clad young Negro. Austrians made music with mandolins; bagpipes whined shrilly from a pup tent...
...Haven's Hotel Taft was crowded with politicians, all wide awake. Leading Candidate John Davis Lodge, of the Boston Lodges,* paused amid the swirling delegates and nibbled on the nail of his index finger. "This," grinned Lodge, "is like trying to pin down a pup tent in a windstorm." A fife, drum and bugle corps blew for Lodge outside the hotel, and delegates found new lyrics to When Johny Comes Marching...
Three years ago, while judging at a London dog show, Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the late U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, could hardly take her eyes off a nine-month-old Scottish terrier pup. Said Constance Winant, an old hand with blue-blooded dogs: "He filled my eye. I had never seen such an air of perfection, such perfect showmanship, such manners." She gave the pup a blue ribbon, then bought...