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...after that on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited. The Pennsy, blushing with pleasure, supplied standard lounge-car chairs from the Congressional, along with the road's finest glassware and all the other trappings. At the last minute someone noticed that the club car had no Pennsy rug. Executives of the railroad found they had none in Washington storage. Miss Rountree's friends knew what to do about that: they threatened to get a rug from the B. & O. Harried Pennsymen stripped a rug from a car standing in the Washington yards, and the club...
Never in the union's 17-year history had it and Big Steel dickered in such an atmosphere of reasonableness. The company, which had originally taken a "no raise" stand, had the rug pulled out from under it by the auto industry's unexpected raises two years ahead of contract expiration (TIME, June 1). On labor's side, McDonald wanted no strike in his first test as leader of the 1,100,000-member union. When Stephens, who at first offered 5? an hour, said that 8½? in wages and ½? in fringe benefits...
...bazookas, stretchers and ammo boxes in emergencies). Fighting men are likely to find a combo blasting away almost anywhere -at the shower tents just behind Old Baldy, at the medical-clearing stations where the litters are coming in fast, at the rest-area hoedowns helping G.I.s cut an Oriental rug with Korean belles decked out in latest Sears, Roebuck couture. And wherever soldiers find a combo, they keep it busy...
...pages, Edgar Johnson's critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of Dickens only in the sense that a vacuum cleaner is the definitive treatment for a rug. Seven years of earnest scholarship together with access to much fresh Dickens material have enabled Biographer Johnson to pick up every fact worth knowing about his hero. As biography, his book is complete, conscientious and fleetingly dramatic. As criticism, it is a hothanded fan letter posing as a balance sheet. Constant prose transfusions from Dickens keep the book alive, and for the rest, the author relies on a quality...
...room on the main floor of the General Assembly building is V-shaped, with off-white curtains, a dark green rug, and five rows of dignified russet chairs. (The chairs are seldom occupied, and guards on duty nearby have yet to see a delegate go there to meditate...