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...Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence. At 4:30 p.m. next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went...
...could reason that, after all, he had survived two of Hitler's rug-biting rages: one after the Moscow repulse, one in the 1938 "conquest" of Austria, when his tanks, all dressed up for the Führer's victory parade in Vienna, ran out of gas many miles away. Presumably he could survive a third, if need be. Guderian may also have it in mind that he used to be regarded as one of the "realistic" officers who demanded collaboration with Russia-a fact that might recommend him as a member of some future negotiating committee. Until...
...which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Margaret Strong...
Working on their own H-hour, the nation's publishers flooded bookstores with shelves of new map books. Mostly these were the new-style maps, with breath-taking views of the world, maps on which the U.S. appeared like a stretched-out tigerskin rug, on which Australia might be as compressed as a frankfurter, or on which Winnipeg or Imphal suddenly showed up as the center of the world. These were maps of global war, on which menacing arrows pointed unerringly at vital targets; maps of the air age, in which distances were measured not in miles...
...home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls...