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Though dull and dowdy by U.S. slick-paper standards, the prospering weeklies reflect Britain's war-born hunger for higher living standards. For the middle-and working-class women who form the bulk of their readership, the magazines are handbag-crammed with counsel on beauty care, clothes, cooking, etiquette, interior decoration and romance...
...London prostitutes take in as much as ?60 ($168) a night-tax-free, of course. Postwar, London's prostitutes have become a menace as well as a nuisance. A young stenographer was disfigured for life recently when an irate harlot slapped her in the face with a heavy handbag under the mistaken impression that the girl was "working" her territory. Because prostitutes ply London's better streets so regularly, any woman sauntering or window-shopping in the West End at night is apt to be accosted by a potential customer, and the result is often mutual embarrassment...
...cubic centimeter of pink fluid-mostly water, but containing millions of cancer cells from human victims of the disease. The cells had been grown for years in test tubes by Dr. Alice E. Moore, Sloan-Kettering tissue-culture specialist, who had carried the cells to Columbus herself -in her handbag...
...Union Station when the Safari arrived, and conducted visitors to "points of interest in historic Portland." While some of the tour was geared to appeal to the rail fan, much of the fifty-cent ride included such standard attractions as Lincoln Oaks, where, the driver noted, a lady's handbag was once snitched by a playful swan and carried to an island inaccessible to anyone except the police. Other vital points of interest included the City Hall, the First Baptist Church ("Jesus Never Fails"), and the scene of an automobile accident which required the services of "three or four ambulances...
...London's suburban Hurst Park in an outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons matching the coat's, shoes and handbag in suede, the whole incongruously teamed with pigskin gloves, a pearl necklace. Polled for their views, the fashion experts, all insisting on anonymity, gasped politely at Margaret's rebellion. Said one: "A strange blend." Another: "It's daring ..." A third: "Extraordinary, to say the least ..." Oblivious...