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...blasé and socially jaded city where almost anything can happen without drawing a crowd. But even Washingtonians were impressed one blazing afternoon last week by a pastoral scene near suburban Olney, across the District line in Maryland. The throb of hooves on turf, the click of mallets on willow root balls, and the clink of ice in highball glasses were enough to identify the occasion as a polo match, but the diplomatic license tags and the Caddies and Jags that outlined the field indicated that it was of more than passing interest. The interest, in fact, was focused almost...
...welcome even warmer. There, warned by Bombay, the police had put up barriers of steel tubing to hold back the crowds, who came 10,000 strong by bus, bicycle, rickshaw and bullock cart to shout "Long live the God of Peace." But the steel was as a willow withe before a flood. As India's President, flanked by Indian officials, proffered his returning Prime Minister a bunch of roses, the fence fell and the crowd surged forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal (and kicked the other off as he fled...
Unfinished Business. In Philadelphia, Clara Chmiel wrote to Willow Grove Amusement Park Manager Joseph Helprin, explained that a year ago she had become engaged to Stanley Gutowsky in the park's Tunnel of Love, asked and received permission to be married there...
...bred, I strongly resent the slur upon my native city contained in the May 16 letter of Dr. Robert W. Blair of Hollywood, in which he advises Correspondent Brown (late of Sweden) to seek sweet surcease of sex in Philadelphia. Every red-blooded Philadelphian from the Navy Yard to Willow Grove, from Tinicum Creek to the Main Line (inclusive) will rise in protest against this foul slander ... Of course it's a well-known fact that things are different over in Camden...
...final portrait was a handsome, delicately painted oil that looked like a faded Buddhist scroll suggesting blue mountains, red sky and willow-green foreground. At this point, according...