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...Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John Butler's deadpan ballet-a sextet of nymphs and fauns taking authentic antique poses in long pink underwear-that started the audience giggling, and left it howling with laughter...
...funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into a chartered Polish airplane at Le Bourget, he seemed the symbol of what his French party had become-soft and flabby, and sunk in gloom. To the south, Italy's Palmiro Togliatti hastily scraped together a delegation, stuffed long woolen underwear and his Russian fur cap into a suitcase of a type the Italians call Americana, and hurried off to Moscow...
...Always the Young Strangers, his autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
JANUARY-Inside Man. On the central front, Korea, a captured Chinese soldier who wore several layers of underwear, two quilted uniforms, a double-breasted overcoat, new boots and winter cap, explained: "I'm a supply sergeant...
Reverse English. In London, Conservative M.P. Major Sydney Markham complained in the House of Commons that tradesmen, cashing in on the coming coronation, were using objectionable ads, e.g.: "Ladies' underwear, ornamented with the Union Jack at the rear...