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...Capri. At Capri, he found the kind of prewar bargain which expatriates used to brag about. His hotel suite (large bedroom, bathroom, private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta...
...textiles, has been good enough already to make Chinese textilemen cry that they have been betrayed, and U.S. textilemen are grumbling. The Chinese had expected to have at least ten years to build up their own textile industries before there was any Japanese competition. But of the 12 million prewar Japanese spindles, 2.5 million are now operating, thanks to shipments of 900,000 bales of cotton owned by the Commodity Credit Corp. Some 90% of the cotton goods is being exported to 26 textile-hungry countries, is expected to net $40 million to be applied against occupation costs...
...front. Mississippi's Senator James Eastland recently talked the Army into using only American raw cotton in Japan until at least the end of 1947. Other big raw cotton exporters, like India, one of U.S.C.C.'s best customers for Japanese cloth, are sure to fight for their prewar share of the Japanese market...
Having finished "Speak For St. Joan," the choice between continuing the "Lampoon" and returning to left-over reading-period assignments should be a simple one. Even the cartoons, several of them by a prewar funnyman, will bring forth a heartier and more frequent chuckle than has resulted from local pictorial humor since candy bars were a nickel. In fact, the whole magazine, while seldom riotous, is the product of a wit that has too long been held in chains within the Bow Street Alcatraz...
...making; arty gatherings and cafe parties which recall the days when Aragon was the darling of the Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical bite in Aurélien...