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What gives this highly unremarkable tale its remarkable lift is no less its fidelity to life than its sense of fun. Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays...
...scene of operations all were fitted out with officers' uniforms. Each was supplied with a map of the 30,000-square-mile maneuver area-a map about the size of a bedspread (most of them found common road maps much handier). They were also supplied with free transportation-jeeps, command cars or ordinary taxis (hired by the Army at $10 a day). Then they were turned loose to try and find out what war was like...
...from passing angry resolutions to sober discussion. Last week Author Christopher Morley's blonde daughter Louise (Bryn Mawr) started the ball rolling by introducing Mrs. Roosevelt at the I. S. S. conference. Up dashed an ink-black African and a swarthy Brazilian, presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a striped bedspread, a Brazilian student banner...
Then came the Wage-&-Hour law, and the Georgia tufters, whose working hours no time clock had ever measured, were out of luck. Rather than pay their tufters the law's wages, the bedspread makers bought tufting machines and moved production into factories. Most of the new factories sprang up around Dalton. The industry, now mechanized, grew faster than ever...
...country around Dalton is still Bedspread Land. The roads are hung on both sides with thousands of bedspreads for sale. In city department stores this year some $12,000,000 worth of bedspreads, 75% of them from Dalton, will sell at an average retail price of $5. Last week 1,000 girls (many of them from ex-tufting mountain families) flocked into the 50-odd Dalton spread factories, signing on in preparation for the fall production rush. By mid-September there will be 7,000 of them hard at work at the machines...