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...true, is Ann's husband (Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...
Buttons & Bows. Toscanini has a special fondness for his old house in Milan, and spent the early part of his summer there. He had it decorated to his taste around 1908, a Victorian era hodgepodge of heavy furniture and silk brocade walls and draperies, has refused to have it redecorated since. The only change he permits is the rehanging of his numerous paintings, and he insists on directing this himself, scrambling up stepladders with hammer and hooks in hand to fix the settings, while servants hold the heavy frames and family members hold their breaths, worrying about a fall...
...Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ships his silk and pongee shirts air express to Sulka's in Manhattan for proper laundering...
...silk flags of Communist China and North Korea snapped briskly last week from the triumphal arch at Panmunjom, close by the moldering straw hut where the U.N. worked out the truce. There were no U.N. flags on display, for Panmunjom, "neutral" center of Korea, lies in Communist territory. To frustrated and bitter Americans, this Communist dominance of the scene-legal as it is-reflected a growing reality last week...
Stained-glass design has been on the decline for seven centuries, ever since its peak splendor in Chartres' cathedral. Describing Chartres, Henry Adams said that "no other material, neither silk nor gold . . . can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them." Some modern artists have begun to rediscover this truth. Last week brought two ambitious shows of modern stained glass...