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...fledgling amahs have a talent for smashing the Wedgwood, the wives of British soldiers and technicians, coming from a land where servants have vanished from all but the stateliest homes, tend to be even clumsier at handling the help. Wailed one sub-lieutenant's wife who recently hired her first maid: "I don't know whether to treat her as a servant or a sister...
Unlike fine wines, books rarely improve with rotation. Nevertheless, the record industry has set the stateliest periods of English poetry and prose to spinning on thousands of U.S. phonographs at 33-1/3 r.p.m. Sampling the newer releases, the auditory reader can pass his evenings with anything from a spoken history of baseball (Columbia) to Physicist Edward Teller's richly Magyar dissertation for Spoken Arts on the "thee-ory of relateevity" ("it weel sound to you crazy...
...perhaps Oxford's best-known college. It is famed among Oxonians for the university's richest undergraduates, among tourists for its magnificent hall and spacious quadrangle. As dean, Dr. Simpson will move into an official residence stocked with prized paintings and carvings, one of Oxford's stateliest mansions...
...resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead of a couple of merely famous names-Mary Martin and Charles Boyer-on his marquee, he had two of the biggest that have ever been in the business-Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant...
...rest of the tax without drastic liquidation. And he still holds Chatsworth, where he will continue to live with his family in a cottage on the estate, and will continue to collect half crowns from the tourists who traipse (at the rate of 125,000 a year) through the stateliest of all the stately homes of England...