The Mixture as Before

As the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened its 75th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles."

After a concert of the works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Oklahoma!, South Pacific) had set the summer attendance record at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Variety headlined: "R & H Have Arrived as Longhairs."

In memory of seagoing Novelist Joseph Conrad, who died 25 years ago, Novelist Christopher Morley took to sea from Manhattan with an old teakwood ship's steering wheel. Salvaged in Tasmania from the hulk of the barque Otago, Conrad's first command, it was in Morley's keeping on its way back to England for permanent display.

In Edgartown, Mass., Emily Post came to grips with a new problem in etiquette: what does the well-bred hostess do when a guest pilfers a prized gewgaw from the breakfast tray? A few days after Hostess Post's loss at her country home, a discreet item appeared in the local newspaper, touching on the "unpleasant situation" and appealing gently for its correction by "the person, perhaps young and certainly thoughtless, who yielded to impulse."

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