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...biting cold of winter from their widely scattered huts and hogans on the reservation. They were of all ages and most of them were wide-eyed and scared. None had ever been to school before. Almost none had ever seen a bed or a shower, or eaten with knife & fork. Only half could speak any English...
...Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last week, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg went under the surgeon's knife for the third time in six months. He had been in hospitals seven times in the past nine weeks, and most of the time he had been in extreme pain, unable to sit up for more than a few hours. Last week, in a four-hour operation, a nonmalignant tumor in and around his spine was removed and with it, friends hoped, the real reason for his failure to recuperate from his operation last fall. But the 66-year...
Until last week, knife-pleated nylon materials were used mainly for such carriage-trade items as $50 nightgowns. Then, Dressmaker Henry Rosenfeld, who has built up a $19 million-a-year business by making carriage-trade dresses at subway prices, put nylon to his own uses. At his spring style show in Manhattan's Russeks, he showed off an all-over knife-pleated nylon dress for $19.95-and U.S. retailers have already snapped up 10,000. Also on view was a wallpaper-print voile for $14.95, already so popular that Rosenfeld has ordered one million yards of voile...
...underbrush of ten-dollar words long enough to sneer knowingly at his contemporaries. "Modern artists are afraid because of their lack of technique," he said, "to face up to the dazzling perfection of the Renaissance . . . The Holy Mother of God is more important than a fruit bowl and a knife...
Today, although any play on Broadway caught with its "social significance" showing blatantly would be laughed off the stage, plays with effectively disguised messages are still produced. For the most part audiences agree with the hero of Odest. "The Big Knife," who says, "If you've got a message, call Western Union." Shows like "Finian's Rainbow" and "The Respectful Prostitute" continue to draw because their messages are sugar coated with music, comedy, and good old-fashioned sex. The point is that theatrical producers did, and occasionally still do, present plays critical of the vices arising from a capitalist system...