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...life. In Olympia, site of the Temple of Zeus, she kindled a flame for the Olympic Games at London by focusing the sun's rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted. Khaki-clad riflemen and mortar crews stood around to keep the Communist pests away...
...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...
Frank's father picked him up and they headed home. Though the dory was stove in, they managed to tow it for evidence. They also brought a piece of soft skin as thick as suit cloth-whale hide, both said. Listening, Provincetown was puzzled, as to whether it should applaud Frank Jr. for riding the whale, or for being the biggest liar in the world. It was an awful situation -and unless somebody checked Willie's hide to see if a portion was missing, Provincetown would never know...
...touch the mural. It was government property, in charge of the President's committee on mural painting, which happened to consist of Rivera himself, and two sympathetic colleagues: Orozco and Siqueiros. But there was no law, the hotel decided, against veiling the mural with a vast white cloth...
...cloth was swept aside one night last week by more than a hundred young students, who raided the hotel dining room and scratched out Rivera's little blasphemy with table knives. Rivera was dining, meanwhile, two blocks down the street. After a leisurely meal he marched over to the hotel, climbed up on a chair and painted the offending words right back in again...