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Lacking a royal family to twitter about, Washington society made do last week by hoking up a heart flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...
With a tweet, a toot, and an occasional twitter, the New York Wood-wind Quintet will give the second and last of the Holmes Hall Concerts this Sunday at 8 p.m. Included in the program are Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat, Opus 71a and Mozart's Divertimento Number Three...
Marshal Stalin was not interested in proverbs, or in the twitter of small birds. "Marshal Stalin," goes the record, "made it quite plain on a number of occasions that he felt that the three great powers, which had borne the brunt of the war and had liberated the small powers, should have the unanimous right to preserve the peace of the world...
...discovered behind a soda fountain or at a drive-in. She is a star who was never a starlet, who never worked up from B pictures, never posed for cheesecake, was never elected, with a pressagent's help, Miss Antiaircraft Battery C. She did not gush or twitter or desperately pull wires for a chance to get in the movies. Twice she turned down good Hollywood contracts. When she finally signed on the line, she forced mighty M-G-M itself to grant her special terms...
...Roman editor and the London advertising executive who used very similar phrases to describe the timidity of conservative forces in their respective countries. "You know," said one, "one of the main drags on them in contemplating any kind of anti-Communist action is just that they all twitter and shudder with nervousness lest they get associated with McCarthyism...