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...same year that Columbus discovered the New World, a painter named Ch'iu Ying put the finishing touches on a little world of his own. Last week Ch'iu's world, a 30-ft. silk scroll, was seen for the first time in the U.S. when it was unrolled at Southern California's Pomona College. It proved to be one of the real treasures of the. Ming Dynasty. The property of a Chinese collector who kept it in his home, it was first put on public exhibition in Nanking three years ago, where George C, Marshall...
...lists the offenses that insects are guilty of (they eat man's crops and belongings; they carry diseases; they buzz and they bite). But to catalogue their virtues, Hyslop uses more than twice as much space. For man's benefit and pleasure, he points out, insects produce silk, shellac, beeswax and honey. They pollinize plants. They improve the soil by burrowing into it and dying. Singing crickets and fighting crickets are part of show business to the Chinese. Some insects, including locusts, ants, beetles and caterpillars, are food for some people (the Hyslop family tried the 17-year...
Once upon a time, so the story of goes, a susceptible Eliot House Junior discovered a piece of silk in his meat leaf. "It's bad enough," he complained, "to feed us horse meet, but when they have to grind up the jockey as well...
After their 1914 wedding in Hoboken, N.J., Billie discovered that Ziegfeld wore long, silk, peach-colored underwear, which she quickly threw away. But life went on being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would say "Go away, dear," when "I tiptoed in to plead with him in whispers." He insisted on traveling in private railroad cars, and when their daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs...
...Everleigh Club flourished from 1900 to 1911 in a 50-room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...