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...bargain prices. But: no tankers to deliver the goods. Shipowners were chary of the stern British threat to sue any owner who loaded Iranian oil. Sedika moved on to Rome, set up two corporations, and started looking for men with tankers. At Rome's swank Excelsior Hotel, Mme. Garagozlou explained: "I am the-how do you call it-front man. I make the contacts...
...used aerial Ektachrome film, developed by the Army during the last war to take air views of camouflage installations in color. Then he packed his exposed film carefully in excelsior and shredded newspaper, sent it to Associate Editor John McCullough, who decided, after finishing the unpacking job: "Those rolls were wrapped like Egyptian mummies." For a look at the pictures finally selected, and for the story of what is going on in the far-flung reaches of the Missouri watershed, turn to the special section on the Missouri Valley in the center spread of this week's TIME...
Nothing Up His Sleeve. In Excelsior Springs, Mo., police arrested Edwin Cotteleer, magician-entertainer at the Elms Hotel, charged him with making off from the hotel with silverware, dishes, two ice buckets, a crystal water pitcher, a card table, table mats, bath rugs, tablecloths, napkins, hand and bath towels, wash cloths, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow slips...
...London. Leaving at midnight, he flew down to Naples, sleeping fitfully in his personal plane. Saturday was busy with official talks, and he took Mrs. Sherman to dinner and an opera in the open-air theater in Pompeii. Sunday he was up early in his room in Naples' Excelsior Hotel, bordering on the magnificent bay where the flagship of the U.S. Mediterranean fleet lay at anchor. After breakfast, as he prepared for the long flight back to Washington, he complained of pain around his heart. Sherman, who had never been known to have anything more serious than a cold...
...that he got less than $45 a week for doing "cosmetics and hairdressing" and had to work day & night. An embalmer at Forest Lawn (where four union members were fired) cried that he not only had to "prepare remains" but wash windows, sweep floors and roll up gauze and excelsior pads for the "cases'" elbows...