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...activities. At last week's dedication, a police inspector duly watched as reverent Jews queued up to kiss the Torah, listened blandly as the congregation chanted its ancient Hebrew prayers. The service over, the inspector congratulated Congregation President Louis Abraham Blitz on the synagogue's impressive decor, shook hands all around and left. President Blitz led the assembled Jews in a tactful prayer: "May God look with kindness upon the chief of the Spanish state...
Woolworth's new store, set in modernistic decor (wall murals, blue-green mosaic tile) in the $28-million Ala Moana shopping center outside Honolulu (TIME, Aug. 10), is a far cry from the red-fronted, musty-smelling Main Street fixture known in hundreds of U.S. towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world...
...minutes later Vag was outside Gorce's room, and a few seconds after that he was within. His resolve had carried him thus far but now he began to falter. He introduced himself and then, at a slight loss, remarked "Interesting decor you have in here...
...decor of Joyce Chen's shows an admirable lack of ostentation, and functions as a pleasant setting for a pleasant meal, not a flagrant melange of colors and quasi-Oriental art junk. "We decided that, even though we couldn't get real ornaments from Communist China, we wouldn't use the fake decorations of many Chinese restaurants," Mrs. Chen explains. "No dragons...
More and more, antique dealers also serve as home furnishers. "We get calls," says Samuels, "to do whole houses and apartments, blending the antiques with the rest of the decor. The most remarkable thing is that the buyers want something to live with, not just a conversation piece. It gives them a sense of the past...