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...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...
...trend was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able, amiable Irving Dilliard, who, in the New Republic on Sept. 7 set down a multitude of reasons for possible big Republican gains. Some of them: dissatisfaction with the military, failure to come to grips with inflation, politics as usual, "feather bed" regulations for labor, bungling censorship, Congress' descending reputation...
Rosalinda was a feather in the cap of Manhattan's youthful New Opera Company. Since its first appearance last year under the lavish sponsorship of Helen Huntington Astor Hull, the New Opera Company has proved that opera, sung by U.S. singers, can be smart, well-staged and easy on the eye as well as the ear. Magnificently staged and costumed, with a George Balanchine ballet that swirled and foamed like champagne, Rosalinda was all of these things...
Blades on the feather...
...Flung Huey, seated with his dream girl, was in romantic feather. "Schutz a minute," he murmured. "Weaver lot of things to talk about. Bucher arms around me, honey, and Klein upon my knee...