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This season, Knight roped in another star-studded cast for 1950's "seventh week." And he was even getting in a little second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
This week the surge of hoarding seemed to be subsiding. The big buying was something else. People who had been waiting until prices dropped before buying a rug, a radio or a new dress, decided there was no use waiting. Others were like a man in a Denver store who said angrily: "I don't like to be in the hoarder class, but I'll be damned if I'll stand by and watch everyone else buy up scarce items at regular prices and then have to pay more for the same damn thing next week...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, after three months of exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, was sold last week to the highest bidder: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, which offered 100,000 Canadian dollars...
Proud I.O.D.E. officers said they would display the rug on a cross-Canada tour to help raise the purchase price, then present it to the National Gallery in Ottawa for permanent hanging. At London's Marlborough House, pleased Queen Mary asked a lady in waiting: "How much is $100,000 in sterling?"* The royal needleworker will turn the money over to the national exchequer as her contribution to Britain's dollar drive...
Last week, Harry Truman pulled the rug out from under the newsmen-and thereby broke an old news conference tradition. He announced that, starting this week, the conference will no longer be held in his office. It will be held in a conference room, which seats 200, on the fourth floor of the old State Department Building. There the President will meet the press, as in the past, every Thursday on alternate mornings and afternoons. Before asking a question, a reporter will have to stand, give his name and employer...