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From Ibn Saud she and daughter Anna Boettiger had each received a silk-embroidered harem gown. "We had quite a show the other night," said Eleanor Roosevelt primly, explaining that they had merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed...
...Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: stainless steel stockings for women. They are still only a laboratory curiosity, but major steel producers, taking the project seriously, have made stainless steel threads which they say can be woven into steel stockings as sheer as silk or nylon...
...Harriette uses subtlety, tries to mention her merchandise by name as rarely as possible. To revive Confessin', she provided min eral water for one bandleader's ulcers, an infra-red lamp for another's arthritis. For Mrs. Tommy Dorsey she managed to find $210 worth of silk stockings. Harriette has a reasonable explanation for the fact that most wives do not object to her overt cultivation of their bandleader husbands. She says: "I am the only virgin in the music business. . . . I go out with the fellows, drink with them, don't blink...
...Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became absolute...
...before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...