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...Next day the task of bringing in the big ships became vastly more complicated because longshoremen had decided not to cross the tugboatmen's picket lines. Steamship company office workers came to the rescue, many of them in natty business suits and overcoats as they lent a hand at the lines...
During her latest fashion show in Paris, Designer Elsa Schiaparelli watched her picket-thin mannequins parade her creations, then cried, "Stop the show. Where are the bosoms? Where are the hips?" To illustrate, she took a jacket from a model and tried it on herself. When it failed to close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
Once in a park, most people stay quite a while. In one California park, 85% of the inhabitants have been there two years or more. Many build outside rooms on to their trailers, put up white picket fences and start vegetable gardens. Many trailer parks are model towns, with a mayor, town hall and garden clubs. Some trailerites don't even own cars; there are companies which haul trailers anywhere...
...date on the telegram, which implied a threat to picket the film, was May 28, 1948. The date was obscured by a large black arrow pointing to the text. Crocker said he used the outdated telegram "because the NAACP had protested before, and we wanted to convince people there was a strong feeling against the film...
...think. I know we made some, and there were some made by our Government." He congratulated the steelworkers on "the friendliest strike I have ever heard of," and told of an incident at McKeesport, Pa., where a foreman ran out of a struck plant and begged the lone picket to call the union hall and get them to send out a striking plumber to deal with some emergency. The picket replied that he could not leave his post untended. The foreman grabbed the picket's sign and marched up & down while the union man ran off to make...