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...took Baltimore 51 years just to get back to the big leagues. Finally, in 1954, the St. Louis Browns packed up and moved East. Browns or Orioles, they were still the worst team in baseball, but Baltimore greeted them like champs. ON TO THE PENNANT, whooped the normally staid Morning Sun, and a monumental welcoming parade tied up traffic for hours. Baltimore Poet Laureate Ogden Nash dashed off a ditty to celebrate the frabjous...
Paraded on the temporary runway installed in the staid old Pitti Palace, where Florence's fashionmakers stage their shows, bosoms were bared in a multitude of styles and shapes. Some designs were legitimate, some looked more like gags: Micia tore holes that left a knitted overblouse looking like supersized Swiss cheese, showed a G-string bikini beneath to any mouse man enough to peep. Glans left only two prim pockets on an otherwise totally transparent shirt. Veneziani attached five-inch-wide suspenders to the waist of a party skirt and called it an evening gown; Princess Irene Galitzine...
Democrats, quite understandably, wish that the Bobby Baker case would quietly disappear. Republicans, also understandably, would like to keep it wide open at least until November. This conflict of interests has caused some spectacular fireworks in the staid Senate chamber...
...sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that may skirt heresy - or may become the accepted reshaping of church thinking - is the staid and sober Netherlands...
...might easily be mistaken for coming to the picnic in overcoat and vest, especially since the Philharmonic is a beginner at a game best played in Boston, and a rather stuffy beginner at that. But the mood Kostelanetz was after was something on the order of refined amusement. The staid rows of amber seats had been removed from Philharmonic Hall and replaced by tables and chairs as closely packed as in a Paris cafe. As the orchestra played, the audience sipped champagne and gazed around the hall. To such a cheerful atmosphere, Kostelanetz merely wanted to add music worth listening...