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...latest furniture is typical. To be completely up-to-date, the modernists turned a model living room on its side and fastened it to the wall, but its furniture-rug, table, overstuffed sofa, padded armchair, etc.-looked comfortable even from that angle. And there was not a single piece of steel tubing in the room...
...that the French woman does not have to be enigmatic, isolated or incomprehensible. Like her husband she is gregarious, and hence wants a family more than she wants the vote. Like him, she is economical, often in the less advantaged classes to the point of unsanitation. A beaten rug loses part of its life, and no scraps of food of the slightest usefulness are to be thrown away...
...street, a canyon between high office buildings, was suddenly filled with a flat sound like someone beating a rug. Piercing the racket was Coffman's shriek: "Corinne, don't kill me!" Corinne blazed away until the gun in her hand was empty, yanked another gun from under her coat, emptied that into the twitching, still screaming Coffman. When the racket stopped, Coffman lay still. Calmly, Corinne surrendered...
...first Miller's was rated as just another good swing band. But last summer, when it moved to Westchester's Glen Island Casino, things began to happen. Within five months Glenn Miller's band was causing more rug-dust to fly, making more phonograph records, and playing more radio dates than Goodman and Shaw together. Last month the Chesterfield Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week...
...does his work in a one-room studio that overlooks Boston Common and the Charles River. In one corner is a Dartmouth pennant, facing it the pennant of his Texas prep school. On the floor is a rug woven for Bill, with a facsimile of his signature sprawled across one end, an image of a long-horn Texas steer at the other...