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...whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...
Retail prices of wool products were already feeling the drop. J. P. Stevens & Co., one of the largest wool fabric producers in the U.S., announced the first big cut in wool textiles; it shaved some of its spring line prices from the year's high, and many a wool user, such as men's suit makers, who had been threatening price rises, now considered cuts in their lines for next spring. U.S. carpet men, loaded with big inventories, have cut prices 20% since spring, and last week the biggest of them, Bigelow-Sanford, announced a third-round...
...There is," wrote Smith, "one thread that shines through all the fabric of current criticism: discontent with the schools of education and the teachers' colleges ... [which] now completely dominate public education . . . The critics claim that under the aegis of these institutions . . . common standards of learning are being abandoned, the standards being adjusted to the supposed interests and abilities of the students; that discipline, in the sense of both control of conduct and the process of directed training, is frowned upon as coercive and damaging to the personalities of students. In short, the critics say that under the impact...
With a burst of pride, Firestone Plastics Co. Inc., a subsidiary of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., last week announced that it had been awarded the Fashion Academy Gold Medal Award. The reason: "Firestone's Velon [a new plastic fabric] accents its economy . . . with distinctive beauty of design and unique color styling." Many a businessman and consumer who have seen the words "Awarded the Fashion Academy Gold Medal" spread across millions of dollars of advertising space, had cause to ask: Just what is the Fashion Academy Gold Medal Award...
Last week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...