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...Without Orders. Last week the threat of depression loomed large over Lancashire's valleys. Among the crowds that cheered the Queen were many of the 32,000 millhands laid off for two weeks because the mills are on short time. Last year Lancashire exported 72 million yards of cloth less than it did in 1953-a drop of 10%. "Half our looms have no orders," said 37-year-old Ronnie Carter, manager of a weaving mill in the town of Padiham (pop. 12,000). "But we're lucky. Two of the town's ten mills have shut...
...what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster-soaked cloth. Now my niece has made a crown of flowers. Good! Good! She continues the tradition...
About fifteen years ago the Ibis atop the Lampoon building took one of its sporadic off-season flgihts. It reappeared a few evenings later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...
...obligingly allow him to stab and dismember them, or occasionally to lock them in coflins. The most eager of his helpers lies on a table where, in full view, a buzz saw runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...
...every week for rigid self-examination, instructed his chief officials to do likewise. He quoted the famed Confucian sage, Mencius: "If, on self-examination, I find that I am not upright, shall I not be in fear even of a poor man in his loose garments of hair cloth? If, on self-examination, I find that I am upright, I will go forward against thousands and tens of thousands...