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...wearing a TIME cover around your neck, as a cravat. Reason: cloth designers such as Georgette Duffee of Manhattan's Falcon Studio keep their patterns somewhat tied to the news. When she saw Artist Boris Artzy-basheff's cover picture of Siam's King Phumiphon last year, she thought it offered a good way to keep her lines related to the increased news on Southeast Asia. So the cover's little men with lanterns, its tiny half-moons and mystic squibbles, became part of a maroon-blue-white design. When a researcher went...
...rest he simply sat, waving, plainly conserving his strength after a week of excitement and strain that would have exhausted many a younger man. His car moved slowly through a rain of colored cloth in the garment district, through new barrages of paper on Fifth Avenue, and on at last back to the Waldorf-Astoria. There for a few days he shut himself away from reporters, crowds and flashbulbs. This week in Chicago and Milwaukee, more parades, salutes and ceremonies awaited the conquering hero...
...Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean soldier...
...last week White House Stenographer Lauretta Young put on the cloth coat she had been conspicuously wearing of late, and quit her job. Her ownership of an $8,540 royal pastel mink coat, which was conveniently financed by a Washington attorney who specialized in federal contacts, titillated the Senate investigation into RFC influence-peddling last month (TIME, March 12). To hear Presidential Secretary Joe Short tell it, Mrs. Young (after working for Harry Truman since his senatorial days) had simply decided "to devote more time to domestic duties...
...Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...