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France faced its most important decision since 1940. Yet the campaign preceding this Sunday's Constitution referendum was strangely blurred. The speeches of party spokesmen did not bring home to French voters how the Communist master carpenters of the Constitution were on the threshold of a new phase of power...
...they were, their actions remained incomprehensible. "I have knew mens," said Berenice, "to fall in love with girls so ugly that you wonder if their eyes is straight. . . . I have knew womens to love veritable Satans and thank Jesus when they put their split hooves over the threshold." Nevertheless, Berenice decided: "What you ought to begin thinking about is a beau. . . . A nice little white boy beau." "What would I do with one?" demanded F. Jasmine. "Do, Foolish? Why, make him treat you to the picture show. For one thing...
...looked pretty austere when she arrived, with her hair done up in a bun, and no hat. But Cornell coeds soon found that the stern face softened easily into a friendly, crooked smile. Until Dean Blanding marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring she was the first to brave Cayuga's icy waters, the last to quit swimming in the lake in the fall. She sometimes gave dinners for 30 people...
...Question. Pappy was still undismayed. Back in Los Angeles again, he carried his bride across the threshold three times for news cameramen, served reporters double bourbons, and fired back: "Any romance I carried on with Mrs. Malcolmson was carried on by mail. I had overseas nerves." And what, he wanted to know, had happened to the $18,000 in property and allotment checks he had given Lucy in trust for his three children by a former wife...
Said Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: "I am unable to agree that we should suddenly choose UNRRA, on the threshold of winter, as the vehicle for [freedom of the press...