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...prose as informal as his loin cloth, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi last week asked the U.S. people to concern themselves with Indian independence. Writing to the India League of America, he said...
...deny a rumor that she had stuffed paper in her shoes because the soles were thinning. But she was not the least bit disturbed by appearing every day in the same hat (cherry red, trimmed with red and green birds' wings) and the same coat (black cloth, with two blue fox furs trailing from the shoulders). She called it her "battle dress...
Later, hard at work in a textile mill, he had another extraordinary idea: if, as an employe, he bought cloth at less than cost, and sold it for more than cost, he would soon be in the money. He was soon in the street, his ears ringing with the millowner's "long talk on England, cricket and all that sort of thing." Next he tried "the tobacco road" to wealth. His firm shipped him to South America "to discover why the natives were not smoking our cigarets." When he turned up at his boss's engagement party floating...
...chore graphers have brought "Swan Lake" back to Diahileff's classical interpretation which is ballet and its most typical, and possibly best, form. Nimble-footed Markova and Apollo Dolin swing, sway, and pirouette in the center of the floor while a score of swan-maidens in traditional, white chees cloth play charades in the background. Perfection that "Swan Lake" may be, the show was stolen by this season's newcomer, "Pillar of Fire." It took this super-choreographic and tragic ballet to really rouse the audience, but even the dowagers stood up in the boxes and clapped for encore after...
...Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...