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Welcome once more agreeably. I must tell you in due course of my loveable colleague Juan Gomez, who will devotedly conclude with you unspeakable preferences in the matter of: soap, matches, silk pyjamas (for any gentleman's Mrs.), jewelry, oranges, cigarettes, brilliantine (most desirous), also all manner of especials. Great news if you are always in virile way of living since we made merry commonly in the pasture...
Tall, ash-blonde, Vassar-grad Letitia Baldridge, daughter of Nebraska's ex-Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
...Silk that doesn't come from worms, wool that doesn't come from sheep, and man-made skin and hair that doesn't grow on humans can now be produced by a process announced by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of chemistry, this week in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
...them. In short, trade must be developed. Before the war, in a typical year like 1938, Japan imported U.S. goods worth $260,667,000, sold the U.S. $123,836,000. How much of the prewar imports U.S. business could buy, or would want to, nobody knew. The market for silk was drastically reduced (TIME, May 26). For some time, at least, it looked as if trade in other items -fish, tea, cotton piece-goods, agar-agar, pottery, toys-would be small...