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...elegant greystone Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...advantages of being a member of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, serving the public 24 hours a day," are manifold. As a News candidate, you will find out what makes the University tick and will gain entrance to places ordinarily barred--ahem--from the student proletariat...
...varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
...uncorked. Fire Chief Brennan wryly noted that it would have taken two complete fire departments to handle the reported holocaust. But by & large the try-out was a success. San Francisco was no longer a model of bumbling confusion. The city's air-raid precautions were beginning to tick...