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...Senator Olin Johnston, a coon-shouting white-supremacy man, had bought ten tickets, he and his guests stayed away, he said, because his wife feared that she might have to sit next to a "Nigra." (There were three Negroes at the dinner; they sat at one table-in the rear.) Senator Johnston sent an emissary to make sure that nobody else sat at his table. He ate dinner at home, helped his wife dish up the vittles, and called in photographers to record the touching scene...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
...more heartening to a world in crisis than a face veil tumbled over with roses?" Another Schiaparelli heartener: fire-engine red stockings shouting out from under petticoats that hung six inches below dress hems. Jacques Fath had his own private eccentricity; he slit his narrow skirts up the rear, to a point well above the back of the knees. From the bow, one of his bridal dresses looked as sleek as a racing sloop. Viewed from the stern, with fantail cleft, it looked more like a minesweeper...
...back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked at and yet hates it, or that fellow playing solitaire? Maybe they are the crazy ones...
Remodeled Price. The 1948 model Cadillac, with a wide new interior and finlike rear fenders, went on display in Detroit. The big new car also has a big new price: up 9.5% over last year...