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...produce better snowstorm photos than his rivals, simply by splattering ink on his negatives. He also did early composites, during a macabre era in which people liked to be photographed with shadowy pictures of their deceased spouses showing in the background. He tried to make money printing photographs on satin pillowcases (a fad of the times), went $1,500 in debt with his own studio, then joined...
Beetles & Buoyancy. The three Foreign Ministers had three meeting places. Significantly, the sessions grew more informal. First they gathered at a long, document-piled table in the big conference room of Spiridonovka Palace. Everyone had a gleaming white satin chair, decorated with embroidered gold beetles. Four days later they moved to a smaller, red-plush room, where the three, with a few aides, simply sat around and spoke their minds. At week's end they met in Russia's holy of holies, the Kremlin. That meant that Stalin was taking a hand...
...then the other side of Berlin presented itself in his small, bare office: a statuesque platinum blonde in a shining satin dress that crept a span above shapely bare knees when she sat beside his desk. She fluttered her long, blue-tinted eyelashes, and smiled...
...first no paper could be found suitable for printing the instrument of surrender, but in the basement of the Catholic Trade School were just enough sheets of rich, heavy parchment. Army engineers printed the job in offset. It was decided to use plain staples, instead of white satin bows, to bind the sheets...
...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...