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...process was slow. The Japanese seemed willing and obedient but bewildered. Said one U.S. officer: "It's like telling a stenographer to bring a pad for dictation and having her so literal that she won't bring a pencil...
...Just as in future years military tactics and strategy will be judged on whether they are pre-or-post Hiroshima, so diplomatic dealings today are dated backward & forward from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not only there; he was therewith pad & pencil in hand. His shorthand notes are still the best record-in the U.S., at least-of what went on at the Czar's Palace in the Crimea...
This year, with a neat banishment of old pencil-slim lines, they did it again. Skirts were longer; waists were laced in; sleeves were rounded at the shoulders. Some ensembles hugged, some billowed and sagged. Hats flared, swirled, ran or circled monotonously (counseled Harper's Bazaar: "Be round-headed...
...Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
...evening dresses disclosed two silhouette trends: the slinky and the frilly. There were pencil-slim skirts, tunic-length jackets, hip draperies, towering hats, fantastic turbans, flowing Grecian folds, bows, bustles, Tudor sleeves. For day wear, there were misty Scotch tweeds in soft blues, green-greys, yellows, reds. The most fetching suit style had waist-length lapels and waistline tucks giving a blouse effect in the back...