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...readers of TIME should be very grateful for your perceptive and courageous article on "The Death Industry." I am reminded with real sorrow of the thousands of our most precious young men who died and were buried in alien lands with no better than an Army blanket to wrap them in. Why are we so much better than they, or have a better future, because we lie in moisture-proof vaults in mahogany caskets...
...water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...
This is not merely another anachronistic attempt to make Jesus a regular fellow, explained the denomination's director of curriculum, the Rev. Robert Koenig of Philadelphia. The flowing robes in which Christ is conventionally pictured were used only for traveling, as a sort of combination overcoat and blanket; archaeological research has shown that workingmen on the job wore short trousers and a short tunic-like shirt. To emphasize Christ's manliness, it had been decided to portray him in shorts, said Dr. Koenig, instead of in the traditional robe, which "suggests a feminine softness...
...when she got back from the hospital. Forcing the bolt of the closet, he opened the door and fell back in horror. Huddled on the floor at his feet, under thick layers of cobwebs and dust, was the shriveled body of a woman, partly covered with a moth-eaten blanket and the decayed remnants of a blue dressing gown. The skull was bare of hair, the eye sockets were hollow, and the skin was parched to the color of dark leather and hard as rock. Beside the body lay an empty bottle of disinfectant...
...Belgium and Czechoslovakia) collecting in Cuba, far more than necessary for the island's own self-defense. It therefore wants to limit Cuba's access to such paramilitary items as auto and aircraft parts, tires, tools, special chemicals, oil-cracking catalysts, etc. It will not issue a blanket embargo (food and medicines will be exempt), but will draw up a list of restricted items, hoping by that means to discourage Castro from launching or backing any further Communist-style adventures in the Caribbean...