Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch got a wire of thanks from Mrs. Winston Churchill. She said that she and her daughters were glad to have a couple of dozen silk stockings he had slipped among the Prime Minister's effects for them...
...high giggle, a flamboyant taste for red ties and pink-striped shirts. Horowitz' great absorption outside music is his magnificent collection of snuffboxes assembled from over the world. He keeps them in a large chest of drawers, laid out with geometrical precision on a lining of green silk...
...Silk for the Darlings. An American girl who recently escaped from Occupied France to London gave a more authentic account of life under the Germans. She said that women can still buy chic dresses for 5,000 francs and up without ration coupons. Woolen suits, silk nighties and stockings bring fancy black-market prices. But only the darlings of Nazis, grafters, collaborationists can afford such luxuries. The others wear plain, frequently remade suits and dresses, set off by towering upswept hairdos and elaborate hats. Tulle is one of the few unrationed materials and it is used plentifully for hats...
...Fashioned Man. Dr. Lascoff was born in Vilna, Poland (then Russia) in 1867 and got his education there. He came to the U.S. in 1892. In the Prince Albert coat and high silk hat that European chemists wore in those days, he began compounding prescriptions for Manhattan's Hayes & Son at $2 a week. He was raised to $10 before the week...
...year's supply. The animal market is fine: the Big Show always has a backlog anyway. The clowns (who buy their own makeup) use hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings-but a barelegged circus girl does no lasting damage at the box office. One glamor-girl act is especially well fixed: golden girl Betty Nitsch and her elephant rely upon a metal of which the U.S. has plenty...