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Then there were meetings and a stream of visitors scheduled over the week at short intervals. After a summer's light mail, her correspondence was beginning to swell. But modern Margaret Clapp, whom only the staunchest Wellesleyites had heard of two years ago, seemed already to be an old hand. As she conducted her first chapel, almost lost behind the great lectern, it was as if she had been a president for years. Wellesleyites decided that Margaret Clapp, in their chosen phrase, already looked like a well-rounded "First Lady...
...Chicago, Trainer Ben Jones planned to put his star back into the lineup. But after one of his morning gallops, Citation's ankle began to swell again. Ben Jones, as patient as he is wily, put his star back on the shelf with a crisp remark: "We don't need him right now." The rest of the team was clicking. Coaltown, whose efforts included a world-record mile-in 1:34-had the handicap division over a barrel; Kentucky Derby-winning Ponder, runaway victor in the recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation...
Other Parisian hosts, however, had little time for such sentimental regrets. This year's tourists might be better behaved than the old, carefree variety, but during the 1949 season they had flocked to France almost 3,000,000 strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours...
...fathered English cartooning. Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians. Rowlandson's needle-sharp stylus had deflated many a Regency swell and belle...
...boys . . . this is your old friend," she once broadcast, "I've got some swell new recordings for you, just in from the States. You'd better enjoy them while you can, because tomorrow at 0600 you're hitting Saipan . . . and we're ready for you. So, while you're still alive, let's listen to . . ." Iva, the Government contends, also called U.S. troops "suckers," and "boneheads of the Pacific," told them that their wives and sweethearts back home were being unfaithful to them...