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Kamal Ataturk of Turkey: hand embroidered table linen...
...football team, in one season, should have generated such a super-college spirit in its town, but the Redskins are a remarkable team. From 1932 through 1936 the champion Washington Redskins were the dismal Boston Redskins. In that time they lost for their owner, Washington Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall approximately $85,000. At the start of the 1937 football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition of dark, drawling...
After eight weeks of striking, during which they made bishops attending an Episcopal convention go without clean linen, laundrymen in Cincinnati hit upon a new weapon to bring their bosses to terms: they opened two co-operative laundries...
Such a college tale as U. S. tabloids like to print about U. S. universities is Oxford Limited.* Its author who washes the university's whiskey-spattered linen in public is Oxford Graduate Keith Briant, last year's editor of The Isis, undergraduate paper. Launderer Briant, rolling up his sleeves, drags forth these soiled garments...
...missions abroad, the Nazi press bureau in Washington, and in I Knew Hitler now recalls the late and living Nazi leaders from the days when they could barely afford paste for posters. Into his 814-page confessions Author Ludecke dumps an amazing store of uncloseted skeletons and dirty Nazi linen. He writes in English, easily, with no accent, frequent wit. His story is the most amende and grimly absorbing Nazi confession that has yet appeared in English...