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...first the hospital ship's fate was completely cloaked by fog and silence. Then, as the first rescue vessel crept through the murk off Seal Rocks, lookouts spotted what looked like scores of tennis balls floating on the offshore swell...
...steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...
...diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...
...Everything was shaping up," he said. I was leading, I had lots of gas, the car was running swell." When the rain came at the 345-mark it bucketed down for only a minute, but that was enough to make the track glass-slick and end the race. The winner, at the end of 138 laps: Johnnie Parsons, who pulled down the driver's 35% of a record $57,458.63 in prize money. Despite the cracked engine block, his average speed was better than 124 m.p.h., upping Bill Holland's record-breaking 1949 average (for 500 miles...
Last week Popovich, now 36, arrived in the U.S. with pretty wife Vjera, to take up his new job as ambassador from Communist Dictator Tito. Dressed to the nines, like an oldtime bourgeois-diplomat swell, Popovich portentously told reporters in New York: "I am confident, and so is my government, that we will meet [in the U.S.] with ever-increasing understanding and ever greater assistance." He criticized "bloc systems" in the world, charging with lofty impartiality that they led to war-"from whichever side the blocs originate...