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...vine-covered county hall at ancient Ahrweiler, a U.S. military trial commission last week heard the story of a crime and gave the Germans a sample of U.S. justice...
Pluggers operate throughout the country but work most feverishly in Chicago, Hollywood and Manhattan, where the important radio and nightspot entertainers can be buttonholed. On Hollywood's Vine Street, some 50 determined merchandisers lie constantly in wait for Bing Crosby, most highly sought contact in the business, since he is allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...
...Cheryl Crawford) was probably Shakespeare's farewell to the theater-a farewell of mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously...
Five years ago both Hearst and his empire were withering on the vine. Some drastic pruning had to be done. Hearst's imperious orders to his papers ("The Chief says") were sometimes set aside by General Manager Joseph Vincent Connolly. Trustee Clarence J. Shearn, a dry little Manhattan lawyer with complete control of Hearst finances, restricted the Chief to a paltry $100,000-a-year salary. To save what was left, Shearn sold, consolidated or killed papers, and started selling off big chunks of Hearst's enormous collection of artistic junk (bought for $35 million, worth perhaps...
Kudzu is an old Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts...