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...proved herself more & more qualified to occupy it. As a rather fat little girl, as an earnest and leggy Girl Guide, as a shy, devoted daughter whose only rebellion took the form of insisting on doing war work like other girls, as a princess in love, as a radiant bride and young mother, Elizabeth grew up before a public which closely watched and freely commented on her progress. There had been a few lifted eyebrows, penciled higher by London's Sunday tabloids-as on the occasion, a year ago, when Elizabeth left her children in London for three months...
Judged by Canada's impression, Elizabeth is not likely to match the tremendous personal success scored by her mother on her 1939 U.S. visit. In contrast to the radiant Queen, who often broke royal routine to comfort a weeping child or to chat spiritedly with onlookers, Elizabeth's manner has been more cautiously regal. In the ceremonies, Canadians found her a charming and perfectly trained heiress presumptive. But on the human side, Elizabeth is still a shy girl of 25, self-conscious and tense on her first major public appearance abroad without the overshadowing presence of her parents...
...building in suburban Menlo Park, with glass partitions, barbecue pits, foot-thick adobe walls, floors of Indian-made tile, beams, acres of gardens. The staff, who mostly moved with it, prepared to welcome 10,000 friends at an open house that included a barbecue in their plant's radiant-heated patio...
...Levitts are switching from the kind of house they built on Long Island to three-bedroom, ranch-type homes, with 1,070 sq. ft. of floor space v. 800 in the Long Island homes. They will have wood-burning fireplaces that open onto three rooms, radiant heating, picture windows, sliding panels that make it easy to enlarge the living room, electric ranges, refrigerators, washing machines...
Love & Fertilizer. More frequently sage than sniping, Santayana's mind glows like a lamp, and page after page of Dominations glitters with apt observations caught in its radiant beams...