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First Frank had been hysterical. When the U.S. Army brought him to Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once...
Endlessly, actors as well as actresses paraded in satins, velvets, delicate lace, period gold & silver brocades. In one scene Actress Roy used 60 yards of diaphanous veils to conceal none of her charms. For three years the Folies bought, rescued, hoarded every scrap of material, fur, feathers and jewelry it could lay its hands...
...dress for a museum. Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold. Shim mering gold-and-pearl-embroidered lace swathed the noble bodice, gold and pearl paillettes festooned the ample skirt. It cost...
...Miss Lace, heroine of artist Milton (Terry and the Pirates') Caniff's lusty, busty cartoon strip Male Call, feature of some 3,000 service newspapers...
...with the end of the war her men began to go home and pick up their old lives. One day, while three discharged G.I.s were engrossed in talk of reconversion problems, Miss Lace slipped out unnoticed, left behind a note of farewell: "I've gone back where I came from-I'll be there if you ever need me again. So long! Love, Lace...