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...from the puny marionette on the knee of U.S. capital that Communist propaganda makes it out to be, and it calls attention to the breadth and depth of the U.S.'s concern with the people of other lands. Last week David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, announced a handsome gift for the citizens of Beersheba, Israel: a cool $1,000,000 to build a hospital, the city's first...
...garment workers' building fund, the biggest single charity gift ever made by a labor union, will come both from the I.L.G.W.U.'s own bank account and from contributions by union members. Total cost of the 200-bed hospital will be approximately $1,500,000, and Dubinsky confidently hoped (out loud) that the 440,000 I.L.G.W.U. members will make up the $500,000 difference...
Last week in more than 50 Parisian nightclubs, strippers with such names as Rita Cadillac and Kira Tekitoff were joyously peeling. Le cache-sexe, the French word for the irreducible garment - the G-string - was officially listed in the latest edition of the dictionary Larousse, and most importantly, scores of shopgirls and typists were powdering their delicate epidermises to take part in the first qualifying heat of the 1956 International Amateur Striptease Contest...
...Until we have funds enough to provide sufficient classrooms . . . and obtain and keep enough competent classroom teachers," he said, "we should cut our specifications for less essential functions of our schools . . . Cut the cloth of our educational garment . . . Then perhaps the finances really needed for education will be within the reasonable hopes of attainment and our essential and immediate problems susceptible of solution." As Royall talked, the delegates buzzed with surprise. "The speech had value in that it will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another...
...ideas were on the ribald side, e.g., "Dove sono?" ("Where have they gone?"), from The Marriage of Figaro, would show a girl who has dropped her falsies. Others were plain wacky, e.g., "Parigi, o cara" ("Paris, my dear"), from Traviata, would show one lady demonstrating a strange new garment to another. "Caro name" ("Dear name"), from Rigoletto, would show a sugar daddy signing a fat check for his girl friend. Pressagent Williamson (whose clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper, found a California manufacturer to print...