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...tell whether a New York Times or Daily Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought he ought to know. Another annoyance was the reporters' habit, in unlimbering their fountain pens, of splattering ink on the President's prized, deep-piled green rug. Several months ago, someone emptied a whole penful of ink smack on the rug's presidential seal...
...Unsold Rug. The zoo-odd Italians, including Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had gathered to hear Zellerbach speak at a luncheon celebrating the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan, expected only a good meal and some of the pleasantly flattering remarks customary on such occasions. The familiar praise, however, was concentrated at the beginning of the speech. After that, Zellerbach's clipped, nasal voice began to tick off in unusual fashion some of the things that he thought were wrong with Italy...
...feet, Zellerbach continued. A system of taxation which puts 43 taxes on a man's morning cup of coffee "tends to discourage business initiative and increase costs." Another obstacle to economic progress was the Italian bureaucracy. "A friend visited me," recounted the EGA chief, "and noticed a rug made here in Italy. He asked me to send samples and prices. After a month or two of trying to get all the necessary permits . . . my secretary gave up in despair, and the samples were never sent. Undoubtedly, much business has been lost for Italy in this manner...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, which will be auctioned off as the Queen's own contribution to Britain's dollar shortage (TIME, Feb. 6), got a queenly sendoff on its American tour. Arriving on the liner Queen Mary, it was displayed for three days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to 30,000 gaping visitors. Then it was packed into its satin-lined chest, shipped off to Ottawa. By the time its transcontinental travels end in Baltimore, in June, the royal rug will have been on view in 22 U.S. and Canadian cities...
...stage to the schools. As director of Moscow University, she motors in a long black Zis (the U.S.S.R.'s copy of the Packard) from her husband's Kremlin quarters, dresses in severe, mannish suits, is served by two housemaids, rates an office with a thick Persian rug, a mahogany desk, a daily vaseful of roses, an ornate silver samovar...