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...will be interested to know that this background is an empire silk damask, woven by F. Schumacher & Co. especially for the famous Blue Room. It is the third time this design has been specially woven for the wall covering for this most important room. The first time was in 1902 while Theodore Roosevelt was President, the second in 1917 during Woodrow Wilson's term of office...
...something new every year. She put out a new Heaven-Sent line of colognes (with bottles shaped like angels), dropped 500 basketed samples on pink and blue balloons from Bonwit Teller's roof. She developed a friction face wash (Beauty Grains) for clogged pores, found that "homogenized" raw silk was a good base for makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content...
...away the rats, the cockroaches, the sagging floors, the drafts and faulty plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...
...Paris, degrees in arts and law. Decorations: Croix de guerre for gallantry in World War I; a commander of the Legion of Honor. Private Life: Married to Denise-Henriette Bloch. His only son Antoine, a parachutist, was killed in World War II; a daughter Lise is married to a silk dealer. Political Career: Headed French armament mission to London 1939. Returning to France after the 1940 collapse, he was denied all posts under Petain's anti-Semitic laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle...
...Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married one of Napoleon's marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and became a queen on her husband's election to the throne of Norway and Sweden...