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From the Kroehler Co. the U.N. had ordered 1,858 plush "theater-type chairs," for its General Assembly. Last week the upholsterers struck. The peace conference failed to win them back to work. It looked as if 1,858 U.N. delegates and auditors would have to sit unplushed...
...Plush chairs caused trouble in Paris too. The reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...
...contemplated himself. Almost completely pre-war, normal times, and all of that. His clothes were good: of a fine cut and hanging firmly from his broad shoulders. His white, but toned-down collar curled softly around the proper knot of his knitted tie. His feet rested comfortably in the plush soles of his thick wool seeks, which, in turn, fitted smoothly into his mouse-colored white shoes...
After three centuries, the doors of Peter Paul Rubens' plush art factory reopened in Antwerp last week. It had been completely restored and made into a museum. Reopened too was the question of who painted Rubens' pictures...
...Jack views the future with equanimity. Last week he reared back in his plush, green leather upholstered office and mused: "I like Westerns best. . . . You know what a Western is, don't you? It's Rin-Tin-Tin climbing through the transom to rescue some beautiful broad. Only instead of Rin-Tin-Tin now, we've got Errol Flynn...