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Rich materials and such new shades as "cigar brown," "seaweed rose," "shrimp pink" and "soft sulphur yellow" helped to create a tizzy of fashionmakers' incoherence. Wrote the N.E.A.'s Rosette Hargrove of one collection (by Carven): "Egyptian inspiration stressing spindled, high-bosomed princess line enhanced by encrusted boleros with contrasting yokes of mummy wrappings and circular embroideries...
...opening last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the biggest crowds gathered around the Air Force's huge (six engines, 230-foot wingspread) 6-36 bomber. But what made U.S. airlines take notice were the details which Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. released on a recent trip of its "flying cigar." The monster had taken off with the heaviest load ever lifted by an airplane (a gross weight of 300,000 Ibs.) and flown nonstop for 6,000 miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then to Fort Worth, north...
Some time after 2 a.m. the conferees sent out for seven pints of milk. Pachydermatous Roy Roberts lumbered out, denied indignantly that Room 808 was a "smoke-filled room." Said he: "The only thing in there was this cigar and it wasn't lit." Shortly after 4, the meeting broke up. Dewey called the man who had been his personal choice all along-California's Governor Earl Warren...
...worked doggedly at his portraits, muttering behind his easel when things didn't work out the way he wanted, "Gainsborough would have done it! ... Gainsborough would have done it." Sometimes he held his sitters' attention by painting his own nose red or pretending to eat his cigar...
...When some 600 delegates gathered in The Hague's 13th Century Ridderzaal to continue discussions of European Federation, Winston Churchill broke a precedent and surprised Dutch delegates and journalists by: 1. Suggesting that Holland eliminate the tariff on imported beer. 2. Smoking a cigar...