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Luncheon--Thursday, December 26, at 12:30 in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House...
Sunshine & Dew. Automobile makers and owners used to think that the worst enemy of a new car's gleaming coat of lacquer was sunshine. Chemist Ralph J. Wirshing of General Motors investigated this notion, found it false. Experiments in Florida showed that a car's paint job suffered most from midnight to noon, least from noon to midnight. Wirshing suspected that dew was the enemy, confirmed this by experiments with artificial dew produced in a "dew box." For some unknown reason rain is much less harmful than dew. Moral: keep cars sheltered at night, even in summer...
Moral purging also got under way on the Riviera, where strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...
...Kokonor Kid" has already been put to learning the mantras and tantras-Buddhist charms, incantations and prayers-which will fill his days as long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will...
...sector, "we found ourselves discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...