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...duchess. In art, Dr. Claribel's choices included Matisse's early Blue Nude (1907) and Cézanne's monumental Mont Ste Victoire. In sharp contrast, soft-spoken Miss Etta, an accomplished pianist and lover of old lace, bought glowing Matisse interiors, a Manet pastel, and Picasso's finely drawn, classic Mother and Child (TIME, Sept. 1, 1952). Both sisters were sketched by Matisse and Picasso. But back in Baltimore, the neighbors decided that the Cones had become "mental cases." Undaunted, the two sisters, with their bachelor brother, turned the 17 rooms of their adjacent apartments...
...Tangerine? Late one afternoon last week, a steady stream of would-be De Sapio visitors poured into the cramped offices of the Democratic state headquarters, on the second floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. Campaign photographs of Averell Harriman were plastered everywhere. A picture of Harry Truman, in pastel shades, managed to make the wall of the main reception room. Franklin Roosevelt (senior) and Alben W. Barkley were relegated to the hall. Adlai Stevenson was stuck away in another room...
Mother Goose is manned by 15 officers and 150 airmen, commanded by redheaded Major Guy N. Hunter, 32. His 72-acre station, guarded by an 8-ft. steel-wire fence and about a dozen Air Police, includes an officers' lounge with a 24-in. TV set, beer patio, pastel-painted barracks, library, hobby shop, trailer park for airmen's families, and movies every night. A doctor comes every ten days, a chaplain every twelve days, a dentist once a year. "I've been in the Air Force 18 years," says First Sergeant Clifford Clegg, "and this...
...been "especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink. The wearer can cover a distance of 200 yards through mustard gas." It also advised readers that "white acces sories are very chic in wartime. They show up well in blackouts...
...Look. The customers who followed Ohrbach's uptown found a big change from the cluttered aisles and creaky flooring of the old store. The new Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...