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...Little laboratory, just to show it could be done, once made a "silk" purse...
...sequestered stillness of his deep-carpeted rooms, Manuel Quezon moves quietly. Except for his eyes, he seems impassive. Long racked by tuberculosis, he spends most of his days on a reclining chair, dressed sometimes in silk pajamas, sometimes-when visitors call-in double-breasted suits. Rarely is he seen in the hotel's lobby. Illness has changed Manuel Quezon, the man of explosive talk and volatile gestures. His days are spent in routine matters of state. Mostly he sits and waits for the day on which he can return to the Philippines...
...Manila last week the church bells clanged loud & long. In the shadow of Japan's ancient gods, Philippine priests muttered special masses. Gay lanterns dangled from street arches. Silk placards ' fluttered gaily. It was "Independence Day" in the Philippines-by special permission of Tokyo...
...conqueror of Rome was the ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected...
Gracie Fields, back from a road-show tour of the Mediterranean, reported that she had found a place where silk stockings are sold. The place: Catania. She said the Sicilian storekeepers have whipped the hose out of secret places after two years of hiding them from the Germans...