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...help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California '42 and I celebrated with fresh coconut juice, remarking that you certainly meet the most unexpected people in insurrections." James A. Linen...
...self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always-has style, rarely has money.) But Comrades Nina Popova and Zinaida Gurina, Russia's loyal daughters, were not noticeably pleased...
...from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this spring of 1948 is undeniably a city-but the life of a great part of its people...
...washes things "far faster, far easier, far better." Last week the American Hyalsol Corp., which owns the basic patents for Dreft (as well as for Drene, Shasta, Teel and other cleansers), had an occasion for considering the Dreft slogan. It was accused of having its closets full of dirty linen. In a Manhattan grand jury indictment, the Government charged that 1) the company was a front for the German soapmakers, Henkel & Cie.; 2) Hyalsol had dodged $500,000 in taxes. It was, trumpeted antitrust lawyers, "one of the largest and most cleverly operated frauds against the Government ever uncovered...
...James A. Linen...