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...proposal that would make House dining halls quieter by moving the serving tables into the kitchen high-lights suggestions that three House-masters have submitted to Dean Bundy for the Physical improvement of the Houses...
...wherever Viscounts have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from DC-35 and Vikings.) Instead of expensive high-octane gas, they fly on cheap kerosene, are easier to operate and maintain since the engines have fewer moving parts. At only...
Back in the tuxedo and a quieter mood, Liberace announced, "I just can't hold back the good news any longer. Last year we had the biggest crowd we'd ever had at Madison Square garden in New York. Well, tonight we passed it." Cheers and yelps. "Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you. You don't know how much your encouragement means...
...spent hours in the summer sailing and swimming with his boys. In quieter moments he would tell them stories. Once when he had finished a story called The Selfish Giant, tears came to his eyes and his elder son asked him why. "He replied," writes Vyvyan, "that beautiful things always made...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...