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...opulent Dutch Indian Eden. Her children and grandchildren were born there. The look, sounds, smells of jungle and sea seem to have penetrated her consciousness. The deep differences between native and white, between servant and master, are effortlessly established as both subtle and decisive. And underneath the light garment of Christianity or Mohammedanism worn by the natives, there is the steadily discernible play of a fundamental superstition...
...Envelope. If anyone in Paris knew as much about the showings as Fairchild, it was the American business envoys from the garment industry. Reason: every morning at 8 a messenger delivered to their hotel rooms a big red envelope stuffed with the cables Fairchild and his crew of seven reporters had filed to Women's Wear Daily the previous evening. Said Manufacturer Joseph Frumkes of Monarch Garment Corp.: "Even when I'm in Paris, I have to read Women's Wear to find out what's going on here...
...Than Most. When Saturday came. Giuseppina Mettlica's working neighbors were free to visit her. Astorria Alessi was led to bed No. 33, where Giuseppina's chart hung. But the woman looked different. Besides, protested Astorria. "my friend came in a pink underskirt." At mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi: the two women...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
Bread & Butter. A self-styled maverick who dropped out of the University of Chicago Law School "because I didn't like it," Bruce Sagan is the youngest of three sons of a wealthy Manhattan garment manufacturer-and thus, in the eyes of his critics, has gone from riches to a rag. Even with help from his family, Sagan's success has been powered by a broad streak of pugnacity and a keen nose for news. Says his old City News boss, Managing Editor Isaac Gershman: "He moves three times faster than anyone else...