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Michelin's guide long ago solved the language problem by using symbols to describe hotels and restaurants. A man in a rocking chair indicates a peaceful locality; a spigot, a hotel which has cold running water only; a pitcher, no running water at all. A candle tells the tourist that a place has no electricity, a radiator that there is central heating. There is a symbol for a bathroom; "Le w.c." says one Michelin editor professionally, "c'est très important" Aside from its stars, the Michelin guide has special symbols for restaurants-five pairs of crossed...
Only one man could give the final pat to this neat little colonial comedy, and any schoolboy could guess who he was after three sentences-Rudyard Kipling. This one story, written when Kipling was 44, is the only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by Kipling's 24th year had already spouted seven fine volumes, began to go rusty when he was still a young man. But one good story by Rudyard Kipling is quite enough to make a book worth having...
...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...
...will certainly mellow tomorrow night--along with the rest of Cambridge--and when local imbibers find that the ice is melting and the spirits weakening, they may well turn to a new invention of Howard H. Hopson '46, which replaces the broken bottle cork with a glorified spigot...
...nearing 70, Author Sinclair can still reel off his special Lanny-brand of history and hokum at comic-strip clip. "All I have to do is turn the spigot," he once explained, "and the water flows." And, though critics and historians may not like him, Lanny has a public. In Europe-and in Russia (where Sinclair is considered a major U.S. literary figure, along with William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell) the Lanny Budd volumes are becoming almost as well known as Author Sinclair's The Jungle or The Brass Check. Several of the Lanny series have already been published...