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...busy with salons on two continents. In Manhattan for his first visit in 15 years, Raymond was charmed with the place, planned to shuttle back & forth between Paris and Manhattan hereafter. "New York," said 72-year-old Raymond, his feet in sandals, his pageboy bob in a silvery fillet, "is like an old California mining town. ..." While he was at it he discussed miners. "The miners have a gun . . . and the public has to give up! ... Unions are fascist." He suggested living without coal...
Restaurateur George Rector, 61, whose fillet of sole a la Marguery was worshiped by Manhattan gourmets at the turn of the century, acted as a judge in a Boy Scout cooking contest, registered exquisite anticipation when handed the winning dish-a plate of fried flounder...
...last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested...
...Fillet of a fenny snake...
Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...