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...approaching a frowning innkeeper would go into contortions as they twisted school rings around to look like wedding bands and shuffled their suitcases to hide the fact that the initials did not match. But today door men do not wink, porters do not leer, and managers in even the starchiest establishments could not care less if a couple fails to sign in as Mr. and Mrs. - as long as they pay the double-room rate...
...Once the starchiest of statesmen, Pérez Jiménez was clearly becoming more and more the relaxed socialite and sportsman. Venezuelans seemed to find the change refreshing...
...Starchiest comment on Mr. Chamberlain's historic role was at hand in a new little book called Guilty Men, an on-the-record, non-editorialized indictment of Chamberlain and 14 of his pre-and post-Munich peers (TIME, Sept. 30). Author was "Cato," identified by wiseacres as the Evening Standard's brilliant newsman Michael Foote...
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