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After 15 minutes of telephoning, the lady guarding the entry let me in. The building had two primary tenants, a silk-exporting agency and a violin factory. Up on the sixth floor I found my old office. The walls were filthy. Had they ever been repainted? To the bafflement of an old man poring over a thick ledger at a desk where mine once was, I vainly searched the walls for a familiar mark or crack. Outside, the lights along the Whangpoo River below were just coming on, but the neon glitter of old Shanghai is gone forever...
Died. Fourteen members of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights, the precision parachuting team that since 1959 has been performing at Army air shows across the U.S.; when their plane exploded and crashed while carrying the team to an exhibition; between Silver City and Silk Hope...
Phaedra, wife of Theseus, spurned and disgraced, twists and writhes in an agony of incestuous love for her stepson Hippolytus. Loosening a white silk sash at her waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...
...office door, kept primly shut by the previous occupant, now stands wide open. At the windows the beige silk draperies are swept back to let in the sunlight for the first time in years. Visitors are no longer announced in hushed tones, but rather greeted with a jaunty wave from the man behind the desk, who then pulls up an armchair for an informal chat...
...fractures and a broken arm, it took only three months for her to get back on the nightclub circuit. Now she is ready to go before a nationwide audience and is busy taping the NBC special When You're Smiling, to be aired April 4. Gussied up in silk, energetically doing high kicks as the notorious "lady in red" who did in Gangster John Dillinger, Ann-Margret looked better than ever. Said she: "I'm myself again...