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...exciting place for parades, block parties, silk hats, first nights, and baseball games. Some of its sidewalks sparkle (because of mica in the concrete). Its cab drivers, individualists all, deliver wild, cheerful or threatening monologues on world affairs. Its well-barbered women worship fashion; they shop like stalking tigresses, dress like lady spies and walk with a provocative...
...does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
...Chinese have never been noted for mass production of anything but masses; but civilization is an old Chinese custom. Some 1,200 years ago, long before movies were invented, the Chinese had a fair substitute. They painted picture stories on long silk scrolls, to be scanned slowly from right to left...
...Manhattan dress designer named Wilma announced a new specialty-wedding dresses for divorcees. She suggested a pink silk shantung suit for the second marriage, a black silk faille suit with a crystal embroidered lace blouse for the third. Said Wilma: "The bride's sophistication should increase in direct ratio to the marriage multiple...
Almost a year to the day after taking over, La Motte T. Cohu last week abruptly bailed out of his seat as president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. All the explanation T.W.A.'s stockholders got before he took to the silk was a statement that he had "completed the job" of putting the company back on a straight course...