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Anthony Ripley '50, S. David Kahn '50, and Robert W. Foster '50 discoved a blazing sofa in the room about 8:30 p.m., and promptly doused the flames with sulphuric acid from two portable extinguishers...
...sofa was reduced to ashes by the flames, and the rest of it was badly stained by smoke and sulphuric acid...
...agreed in open caucus with his Pennsylvania rival, Governor Jim Duff, who was an anti-Dewey and pro-Vandenberg man, to hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys said: "There goes the ball game...
...Kraft Theater and Theatre Guild are the best; the directors, after a few cluttered mishaps, have wisely stopped trying to paint extravaganzas on their Lilliputian canvas. The intimate kind of show they settled for hardly rivals the razzle-dazzle-of Hollywood, but it fits neatly between the living-room sofa and the book case. One recent success: Great Catherine, with Gertrude Lawrence, who back in 1938 appeared in the first televersion of a Broadway play (Susan and God). CBS, screening digests of current Broadway hits, made a cramped marionette show out of Mister Roberts, but last week's television...
...Look last summer. . . . But now, we heartily approve of Mr. Dior's New Short Look [TiME, Feb. 23], which we hope will soon soar up to knee length. Foolish women who have splurged on the New Look can cut the extra yardage off their skirts, use it for sofa covers, or send it to Europe to clothe destitute children...