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...wedding reception (still without benefit of bride). At Narriman's home, 2½ miles to the north, a smaller crowd kept its eyes fixed on the drawn blinds behind which the new Queen awaited her lord's summors. Close to sunset, Narriman, resplendent in Paris-styled white satin, finally emerged on the arm of the King's eldest sister Fawzia and entered a bright red Rolls-Royce with black fenders. As the red Rolls headed down the street toward Cairo and the waiting King, it was joined by a motorcade of five red motorcycles, three red jeeps...
Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
Jacques Fath, serenely confident that women will gladly carry around several yards of window drapes attached to their elbows, set off his strapless white satin sheath gown with "conversation piece" gloves trailing sweeping panels of white satin lined in champagne tulle. Raphael forsook needle & thread for the saw & hammer, peeled off wafer-thin slices of plywood and riveted them-with diamonds, naturally-to the cape of his suit. Castillo of Lanvin's rose-red skirt, fanning out in a graceful arc "like the petals of a full-blown rose," used 33 yards of taffeta to achieve that effect...
...raise it into the finest steer there ever was; last week, his year-old, 1,000-lb., underslung steer "Shorty" won the grand championship at the San Antonio Livestock Show. After a San Antonio brewer bought Shorty for $21,000. * 13-year-old Cattleman Tatsch splendid in a satin shirt and cowpoke boots, took a bow in the center ring, announced he would use the money to buy a ranch...
...million-a-year concern with 37 plants in the U.S. and Canada. It turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used, silicone enamel (a cross between porcelain and plastic used for washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), and a long-keeping commercial shortening for cooking. The latest project: an economical way to extract Cortisone from soybeans...