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...merger argument reached a shrill, fishwifely pitch last week. Everyone figured that the debate was in its final stage; almost everyone joined...
...Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...
Last week the French made an international issue of the A. The French Office of Art and Creation charged that Russia, England and the U.S. had now permitted A to soar to a shrill 912 vibrations. Actually the U.S. standard concert pitch is 880, by French count.* France diplomatically offered to compromise with the Big Three at 880-which is still ten vibrations more than its classical composers allowed-if the Big Three will stick to its professed standard...
...ticker tape and letterheads (on account of the paper shortage General Eisenhower got but 77 tons). A huge ship's bow with five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...
Shoppes & Sodas. A shrill curfew whistle sends Val D'Or's moppets kiting home at 9 p.m. The town's Third Avenue (the main stem) has nine hotels* (including a Ritz and a Continental), sandwich shoppes and beauty salons, four furniture stores, taxis, even such accouterments of civilization as a nightclub and a stock exchange (one recent day's business: 27,000 shares, representing $50,000). Val D'Or's drug stores sell barrels of pop. Miners get ice cream sodas at the Splendid Sweets...