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Three Rules. Schuman got the idea for his plan six years ago, when he astounded Paris dressmakers by putting on a style show right in their midst. He wanted to use fine French, Swiss and Italian cloth in his $120 suits and coats, but found that it was too expensive. Reason for its high price was that European textile mills were accustomed to making a large number of weaves in small quantities at high unit cost. "The high prices," says Lilli Ann's Schuman, "were not caused by high labor costs but by lack of planned, consecutive production...
...mother undress him, only balking when she rubbed oil on his face and hair. "I have two friends here I play with," sputtered through the wash-cloth. "One is French, too, but you know," pointing to his head, "he's not so smart, and he is afraid of the animals. But the English boy whose father has the lions, is good. He knows what to do when a snake comes by. Do you know that...
...Europe on a Grunewald mission to line up supplies of scarce metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club" members from Charvet et Fils, then, red-faced, decided not to make the names public...
...second flood. A "Cocteau machine," which relays the orders for Rose or Alsatain wines from downstairs, completes the picture. In the restaurant on the ground floor, a strategically placed modern lamp or a bull fight poster are some of the fitting additions to the twenty-five checkered cloth covered tables...
...Cloth & the Congressman...