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...face, the Cominform Manifesto looked like a mistake. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault called it "just one more blunder." Millions of French and Italian voters had been deluded into believing that Communist national parties in their countries were not subject to outside orders. What did the Communists gain by advertising, at this point, the fact that their national parties were not independent? That was the mystery...
Communist Party delegates had met in Warsaw in September. There they had, in effect, re-established the Communist International. There they issued a "manifesto" which was a clear and brassy call to every Communist in every land...
...union has been an uphill climb. In 1919, at the village of Tranquebar, south of Madras, where India's first Protestant missionaries had landed, 50 ministers of evangelical churches met to discuss union. Some of them-Anglicans and members of the South India United Church*-signed a manifesto proposing union...
...this dithering convinced many a woman that the New Look was merely cockeyed. In Georgia, a group of outraged men formed the League of Broke Husbands, hoped to get "30,000 American husbands to hold that hemline." In Louisville, 1,265 Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started...
Conservative Manifesto. Sophie has always been content to let more flashy designers go their own gait, and doesn't worry about trying to set a trend. She believes in the maxim that the best-dressed women follow the fashions at a discreet distance. Her style is to be simple and unaffected. Says she: "I try to make a woman look as sexy as possible and yet look like a perfect lady." Many women want to look like that. Consequently, Sophie probably sells more clothes than any other designer, with the possible exception of her archrival, Hattie Carnegie...