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...nearly an hour last week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have...
...Newton. In Fresno, Calif., the Dried Fig Advisory Board ordered another 15,000 copies of its promotional pamphlet on learning that the public had snapped up the first 20,000 of The Love Life of a Fig...
After reading of Dior's hysterical high fashions in your March 4 issue, one cannot but think there is something calm and sane about a fig leaf...
Died. Mrs. Else F. Schlemmer, petite, fiftyish, Danish-born widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent to suggest that there are worse things than adultery? The answer to both questions was a resounding no, and the studio applied the fig leaf to the offending parts. As usual in such cases, the drama has been seriously damaged (Playwright Robert Anderson wrote the script), but the sex is still fully in evidence. Indeed, the censor seems in most instances to have used the fig leaf as his own eye patch...