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Stone was fetchingly clad in one of the boxy-looking, fuzzy teddy-bear cloth, finger-tip length jackets which simply everyone is wearing this autumn, with softly shirred shoulders, woven hairline stripes and a parade of novelty buttons from the becoming V neckline to the jaunty angle...
Some of the Germans threatened that "Hitler will be in Canada by the autumn, so you had better treat us well." Canadians groused that the prisoners were treated much too well. According to international law, officers do not work. After 6:30 roll call, the men clean the camp, prepare their own and officers' food. During the day they swim, play games, get brown under the Canadian sun and fat on Canadian milk & butter. At night a Nazi colonel, the highest-ranking officer, leads them in a German song fest. Except for 75 Canadian guards, the Germans might...
...failed to spend early August in Paris, France. For the first time in over 20 years the cables were barren of news from world headquarters of the haute couture. For the first time since they began publication, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar sent to press their all-important autumn issues without a single last-minute Paris model to rave about. The U. S. dress business, whose 7,000 manufacturers and 250,000 workers turn out upwards of $1,000,000,000 worth (at wholesale) of garments each year, was headed without a rudder toward the open...
...England withdrew into itself. Sometimes brilliantly, sometimes querulously, then more & more complacently, it spent the next half century dying. The flowering was over: chill autumn...
Light Without Heat. The chill autumn of New England was mellowed by the light of great minds too. But it was a light without much warmth. Heroes of New England: Indian Summer are Henry & William James, Henry Adams, Howells, Francis Parkman. "They knew they were doomed to fight their fights alone, in a world that was more than likely to divide and destroy them. Some, like Henry Adams, were all but born discouraged. Others, like Henry James, were to spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West...