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...Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
...Whenever the King's Messenger arrives at the House, frockcoated and gaitered, to deliver some official piece of news, the oak door is slammed in his face, and the cry "Black Rod! Black Rod!" goes bawling down the lobbies. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod thereupon knocks thrice upon the door with his wand of office, and is then admitted, bowing to the Speaker and members on both sides as he approaches the Bar. M.P.s dearly love to show off the worn spots on the door where Black Rod has rapped, as proof of Parliament's treasured...
...pretty governess, The Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...
Gross was arrested a year ago. After four stubborn months in jail, Gross pleaded guilty to bookmaking and talked freely to the grand jury about his police connections. The jury thereupon indicted 21 policemen (some of whom had hastily retired from the force) for taking Gross bribes, and denounced 56 others as "co-conspirators." Gross got out of jail in $25,000 bail, was placed under constant guard as a "material witness...
With that, Boris Tchetveroukine, student, sportsman and crack sharpshooter, sat down. There was silence in the court. For five seconds, Boris rummaged in a briefcase, then stood up again. "Here," he announced, "are two documents with which I will convince you." Thereupon, he began blazing away with an automatic in one hand and a revolver in the other...