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...designers-Dior, Fath, Balenciaga, Visconti. But the dress that brought the house down was "First Love," the product of an almost unknown Irish woman. Designed by Dublin's 32-year-old Sybil Connolly, it was a dazzling white ball gown made of gossamer-thin handkerchief linen. Sewn into 5,500 minuscule pleats and banded with five strips of bright woven white satin, the flowing dress looked fit for a fairy queen (see cut). Price...
...Karachi jail, the Begum got two cells instead of the usual one, furnished them with her own linen, radio and electric fan, and brought a maid, a male servant and two nieces to comfort...
...Voice of America is much more than the babble of Communists, free-lovers, and homosexuals. But despite the distorted nature of this latest Inquisition, it has pointed up dramatically the fact that American propaganda efforts are still greatly inadequate for the job they must do. Looking behind soiled departmental linen, hung out by disgruntled employees, it is clear that U. S. psychological warfare must be exempt from both economic and ideological orthodoxy if it is to challenge the Soviets in the arena of the mind...
Youth Wants to Know (Sun. 1 p.m., NBC and NBC-TV). TIME'S Publisher James Linen questioned by teenagers...
...years back, the man who drove a 100-h.p. car was considered a dashing fellow with some of the glamour of a Barney Oldfield. But by this week, when General Motors rolled out four of its new 1953 lines, the 100-h.p. auto was almost as dated as the linen duster. Chevrolet's horsepower was boosted from 105 to 115, Buick's from 170 to 188 (in the Roadmaster), Oldsmobile's from...