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...Macmillan brought off was of the famous kind that made Tories whoop as for Blenheim, Waterloo or Mafeking. "I reckon that 100,000 bottles of bubbly were consumed within an area of four square miles of London," said a nightclub owner after glittering thousands had danced, drunk and cheered till dawn. The staid London Stock Exchange erupted in an exuberant burst of buying as morning-coated brokers shouted bids at lung-top, stood on chairs to make sure their bids were recognized; industrial shares soared 16.1 points for the biggest rise ever recorded in a single day. The box score...
...Veneto-the broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as "the Beach." And for a decade past, the heart of the Beach has been the polyglot, block-long Caffé Doney. There in the soft Roman night, Italians and tourists alike sat till the wee hours beneath bright sidewalk umbrellas, sipping whisky, apéritifs or coffee, and watching the Via Veneto's endless parade of smartly dressed girls, pomaded gigolos and international celebrities, ranging from Brazilian Playboy "Baby" Pignatari to Hollywood's Clark Gable...
...peace, and all will be well. Truth will endure. Time is on the side of truth." Many in the congregation wept, and when Benson finished speaking, his listeners broke out a fluttering sea of white handkerchiefs, sang a farewell hymn to Benson and his entourage: God Be With You Till We Meet Again...
...adjectives for 40 & 8, like "fanny-pinching and town-wrecking" and none at all for the parent American Legion? Let me suggest a couple: the public-till-raiding, socialism-for-us-but-not-for-you American Legion...
...temperamental bachelor who seems to have had a homosexual crush on Napoleon, but Bonaparte was strictly heterosexual, and Gourgaud eventually left the island in a vicious pet. Las Cases had gone to St. Helena for the book he knew Napoleon had in him, and took dictation till his eyes gave out. Indeed, they all took dictation and kept journals, perhaps suspecting posterity's avalanche of books about Napoleon, though some of the entries are revealingly non-Napoleonic, e.g., Gourgaud's statement that if Las Cases tried to go in to dinner ahead of him again, he would kick...