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General Dwight D. Eisenhower is an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Order of the Bath, which ranks him between a baronet and a knight and entitles him to wear a crimson satin mantle lined with white taffeta.* He is also an honorary member of London's famed and hoary Athenaeum Club. These honors have now been augmented by one from another great ally of the U.S.-Russia's Order of Suvorov, First Degree, one of the highest military awards the Soviet Union can bestow...
...plushiest dressing rooms. Each of the three performers at the Morosco has a whole floor backstage. The three suites, which cost around $30,000, contain a dressing room, sitting room, kitchenette with refrigerator, bathroom without bath. Margaret Sullavan's first floor (see cut) is all feminine satin; Elliott Nugent's second floor, all masculine mahogany; Audrey Christie's third floor, all pink& blue...
...Bums is going formal. For their 28 night games this season, the Brooklyn Dodgers will wear glistening uniforms of satin-white piped with blue for home games, blue piped with white for road games. Purpose: to keep fans' minds off the quality of the baseball, which will be a motley of under & over draft age, piped with...
After Dark. Despite their spit & polish, the girls are still girls. The men flock to the Reserves' recreation hall and, when they are not invited, try to crash it. In their barracks, after dark, the girls turn up in ruffly nightgowns, tailored pajamas, housecoats, satin robes and all kinds of footgear, from fancy mules to fleece-lined booties...
...squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...