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...window that tied up traffic last week was at Franklin Simon's. Designers Claire Lang, James Gosling and George Perkins reproduced the whole door of a church and an adjoining stained-glass window (made out of Cellophane and shoe dye), a lawn with real grass. Through the church door paraded a dozen live models, women in spring street clothes, men in frock coats, military uniforms and mufti. Once a day six choristers from the Paulist choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window...
...them for sins against defense. To reporters he talked darkly about patent monopolies through which German firms were holding up prices and production in the U. S. He talked particularly about magnesium, in which Aluminum Co. of America holds important patents jointly with the famous I. G. Farbenindustrie (German Dye Trust...
...Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous...
Germans in Brazil own textile factories, dye works, paint & chemical plants, machine and tractor factories. They run retail establishments, hotels and restaurants up & down the country. The German-owned airline, Syndicato Condor, operates down the Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...
...Tweedle-dee-dum, tweedle-dee-dye," chorused the independent sports experts, "Three o'clock Thursday...