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...high speed he proceeded to do a second painting of the Duchess in exactly the same pose (reclining on a couch, her arms folded under her head, a subtly inviting smile on her lips), but this time dressed in white silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...
...that have been scrubbed almost white and carefully patched, a blue wool lumberjacket, his American work shoes (without socks). When he returned from the U.S. last year (he had been a track laborer on the Santa Fe near Cherokee, Okla.) he brought Margarita yard goods for dresses, and some silk panties; for the children, dresses, shirts, shoes, a leather jacket. He also brought back some new habits, such as washing his hands before meals and brushing his teeth-habits which he enforced on his family as well...
...U.S.S.R. banned them. In 1930, it permitted them again, if the People's Commissar for Finance found the purpose worthy. During World War II, lottery loans ran up to 2,200,000,000 rubles; they paid off in cash and also in kind, including women's shoes, silk dresses and a Persian lamb coat...
...fact that TIME Inc. correspondents in the field read F.Y.I, before turning to their copy of TIME to see if the news they cabled in got printed. Wrote one of them recently from our office in Shanghai: "F.Y.I, continues to be our favorite publication. We learn about Silk's ducks, Calhoun's sweatshirt, the TIME girls' parties for the G.I.s at Halloran (Hospital). . . . And how is luncheon at the Holland House, Isabella? And does one still see happy and familiar faces at the Three G's restaurant? Ah, forgive me, I'm weeping...
After sunset, tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to the big city feel a lemming-like urge to go nightclubbing. The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...