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...changed. He was the same fellow who ran the curio shop in Rockefeller Center, or fished off California's coast. What had changed was a U.S. state of mind almost as old as the Republic. Before Pearl Harbor there was only one world to U.S. citizens. The world, the only world that Americans believed in or cared about, was the U.S. The rest of mankind was in an American sense, unreal. The American might-and did-throng the tourist spots like London and Paris, "discover" Bali or the Dalmatian Coast, but he could never quite believe that these outlandish...
...years the plutocratic International Settlement had taken pleasure in the Marines. It enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement...
Free-spending and with plenty of money to spend since they are paid in U.S. dollars (each worth 20 Shanghai dollars), the Marines have been popular with the Chinese. They are insatiable curio buyers, far more polite than the bullying Sons of the Sun. The Chinese also like the Marine Band, follow it whenever it marches down Bubbling Well Road, skirling Oriental approximations of its marches...
When dimpled, dilettantish Chicago Socialite Washington Porter II found himself fresh out of cash last year, he went to Mrs. Frank Granger Logan, who also loves art (she authored the 1936 Sanity in Art brouhaha), and asked her to buy his curio-crammed museum-mansion until he could raise the money to buy it back. Mrs. Logan found $17,500 and Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke...
Federal Trade Commission's stipulation-of-the-week: "Keystone Laboratories, Inc., 491 South Third St., Memphis, trading as Memphis Mail Order House, Curio Products Company and White Line, will discontinue representing that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin' Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone...