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Young Churchill wrote to his mother: "I am making my room very pretty & 'chic' with lots of silk 'draperies.' We want it to be the prettiest room in the house." But the esthete also kept silk worms that munched on mulberry leaves he brought from a nearby yard. He tinkered with carpenter's tools. He kept two dogs, against the school rules, and walked them at night with his friend, the town detective. Once he manufactured a time bomb to blow out a well bottom which was supposed to lead to an underground passage. When...
...what sense Alexander Woollcott's life had hitherto been cast amid perils was not explained; but there was no doubt that the Town Crier was in character. Besides candy for a Lady, his presents (carried over with his person on a British warship) included 45 pairs of silk stockings, three dozen lipsticks, "yes, and bobby pins...
...President, coatless, in white shirt, black silk tie, was grave, preoccupied. He began a rambling discourse on the details of the sinking of the Pink Star-Panamanian-registered but U.S.-owned...
There were several important differences between August's rush and September's. Last month's shopping spree was touched off by the Government's embargo on silk for women's stockings and panties (TIME, Aug. 18). It spread to a score of goods and gadgets which householders feared might soon be cut off by the war. Sales of electrical appliances rose 129% over August 1940-neck & neck with the jump of 134% in hosiery. Refrigerator sales leaped 121%. Piano sales went up 58%. . . . September came, and August's boom petered...
Best-looking entries in the show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...