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When there is nothing to do in Bangkok, the Siamese give a party. Anything will do as an excuse-a new door for an old house, a new pot for the kerosene stove, or the casting of a new Buddha. Practically no one in Siam casts his own Buddha any more, of course, but since it would be unthinkable to buy or sell an image of the great god, the Siamese "rent" the Buddha from a store on a lifetime lease, and hold a casting party anyway...
Lafayette & a Belch. In New York, James Aloysius Farley, generalissimo of Coca-Cola's overseas expeditionary forces, sizzled like a shaken Coke bottle on a hot stove. "Coca-Cola wasn't injurious to the health of the American soldiers who liberated France from the Nazi," he exploded. "[It] followed their guns on the beachheads . . . I'm afraid General Lafayette would think this decision was small reward . . . This might be the straw to break the back of the camel hauling billions of American dollars to France...
Daily at 8:30, Benny, with a red rosebud in the lapel of his jauntily cut suit, walks from his home on the fashionable Doble Via to the hospital. He spends at least two hours visiting the children and checking on such details as charcoal for the kitchen stove and nylon sutures for the operating room. Though the government pays the hospital's 22 doctors and 14 nurses, Benny buys what he calls the "extras"-a child-size operating table, modern X-ray equipment, new washing machines for the laundry. All told, he has spent some...
Throughout the Holy Land last week telephone lines crashed down, water pipes burst, roads were blocked by snow. For nearly two days, Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the country. Buildings, including a stove factory in Jerusalem, collapsed under the heavy load of snow on the roofs. Israel's entire citrus fruit crop (the country's No. 1 export), the tomato crop and half of the estimated banana crop were destroyed...
Winterbound baseball fans pass the time in hot-stove-league discussions of ballplayers, batting and fielding averages and the prospects for the coming season. Last week in the Jackie Robinson Show (ABC, Sun. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.), they found a fact-filled radio capsule to help them through the dull months...