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...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...
...somewhat giddy. Said one Manhattan storeman: "This is the most uninhibited Easter business I've ever seen. The ladies shop as if they'd been drinking champagne cocktails...
...this first spring of the new peace, with millions of soldiers back home to dress for, U.S. women were indeed spending with the grand air of drunken sailors. Result: U.S. retail sales were up a whopping 50% over 1945, appeared headed last week for a record Easter total of $1.5 billion in women's clothing alone...
...everything else was just as greedily snapped up. The advertising manager of one store grumbled: "We can't keep stuff long enough to work up an ad." Customers even waited patiently in stores for goods to come in. Easter outfits were at a premium from coast to coast, with sky-high prices no deterrent...
...average, metropolitan matrons bought an Easter bonnet for $25, double the prewar price, a $70 suit (rounded at the shoulders, narrow at the waist, wide at the hips), a $15 white blouse (lacy and fluffy), a $15 pair of shoes, a $5 pair of gloves, a $25 handbag and $25 worth of miscellaneous frippery...