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...fare-thee-well. One is a forward little moppet (Mary Jane Saunders) whom Hope accepts as an I.O.U. on a racing bet and later adopts as a permanent but irresistible liability. The other is a horse called Dreamy Joe. When Mary Jane needs a nightie, Hope flings her a sodden, outsized sweatshirt; when she is sleepy, he sings her a lullaby improvised from a handy racing sheet. When she lies desperately ill in a hospital, Hope smuggles Dreamy Joe in to see her. Blocked by a frantic nurse, he puts a confidential finger to his lips...
...Rome, a damp crowd sang dispiritedly in the Piazza del Popolo. A newsboy hawked the Communist newspaper: "Here's Unità. If you can't read, stand under it." The Reds' May Day show in Italy, billed in advance as the biggest & best ever, was a sodden fizzle...
...Perkins Hall parking lot is a disgrace to the alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain depth. On the surface of "Lake Perkins" float pieces of old lumber, clothing, garbage, and sundry other debris. A student auto bearing a Massachusetts license plate was recently mired in the middle of Lake Perkins for two weeks, blocking off the rest of the lot since a voyage across this atrocity...
Another such painting, which might strike laymen as being neither better nor worse than the rest, won this year's top prize. Insisted Director McKinney: "The finest picture in the whole show." It was a sodden, ragged and barren landscape under a strawberry-tinted sky, done by a soft-spoken 32-year-old Virginian named Mitchell Jamieson. To Painter Jamieson, in Paris last week on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study European masters, the news hit the spot. "I planned on going to an art exhibition with my wife this afternoon," he said when he was asked about...
Like his home, a Briton's holiday is sacred and for the most part steeped in gloom. Last week as Britain's August Bank Holiday came to an end under sodden skies, tens of thousands of vacationing Britons trooped back to grimy workaday lives at Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London with little to look back on but dreary days in shabby, seaside boarding houses. There were some Britons, however, whose vacation memories would glow brighter through the long winter months ahead. Among these were the 21,000 returning from Butlin's five "Luxury Holiday Camps" in England...