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...that civilization's taste for justice was jaded, or that preparations for the trial of high Japanese war criminals had been halfhearted. Allied legal authorities had worked on the 55 -count indictment for eight months. Much care had gone into fitting the courtroom with dark, walnut-toned paneling, imposing daises, convenient perches for the press and motion picture cameramen. The klieg lights suggested a Hollywood premiere...
They had gone to the right place. Experts say that most corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated...
...Empress in 1932, None but the Lonely Heart in 1944). She spends most of this one propped up in bed. Alternately purring and bellowing in a voice not unlike Brother Lionel's, she is superbly effective as the ailing, aging mistress of a huge plush-and-black-walnut New England mansion. A gay-dog only son and a sobersided professor-stepson (George Brent) make their home with her. Residents and visitors in her house include such odd or frightened people as a cook (Elsa Lanchester), a trained nurse (Sara Allgood), and a strangely inhibited young woman (Dorothy McGuire...
Phil Murray was just back from ten days in Florida, looking fitter than usual. The lines were gone from around his brown eyes and his firm mouth. Behind the big walnut desk in his green-walled office looking out on Washington's Jackson Place and the White House, he was every inch the boss...
...British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling is covered with gnomes, dwarfs, beggars and oilier baroque gremlins. (Clark Kerr tells friends he wants an air gun so he can shoot gnomes.) Gnomish Viacheslav Molotov is cautious too. He presided at the first session of the Foreign...