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...Story: Certain Manhattan dry-goods stores have copied the notion, originated by Frenchmen, of colored bedclothes. They are a success. Distinctions of taste have crept into the choice of bed-linen. For small babies, pink or tea-colored sheets are recommended. For men of fashion, blue sheets are most suitable. Red-haired brides may have scarlet or green linen laid upon their couches. For oldsters a black sheet is in the best taste. Now, at Wm. Coulson & Sons, Jas. McCutcheon & Co., Mosse Inc. (in Manhattan), those who so desire may buy sheets in pastel shades as well as more solid...
...Place d'lena, Paris, almost under the bronze nose of George Washington's horse,* a group of notable Frenchmen gathered around a hollowed building stone last week. They were men potent in French science, politics and industry. Mingled among them, like atoms of a great molecule of reverence, were diplomats of foreign countries. The nucleus of their thoughts was the stone...
Then he sealed the stone and the notables dispersed, leaving the block in fantastic isolation, for not yet have foundations been laid for the International House of Chemistry. Nor have Frenchmen decided on a site† for its erection...
...Albert Champion, 49. He had made more spark plugs (the A-C brand) than had any other man. Despatches from Paris, where he had died, gave no cause for death. But he had lived hard, incessantly driving himself at his work. Born in France, he made himself what Frenchmen call "typical" U. S. businessman, always under nervous tension. When he played, he played hard. He was married...
...home appeared last week. From France came four men and a model. She was trim, neatly proportioned, tapering. She was a model for a 40-ton, 7-motored "flying wing," the like of which Mr. Levine hopes to put into transatlantic passenger operation next year. With her came two Frenchmen-Alexander Kartvelichvili, Edmond Chagniard, her designers...