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Last week, as his "Stories for Children" reached 142,000 sales, Peary was busy cutting a second set, The Brave Little Tailor (based on Grimms' Gallant Tailor who killed "seven at one blow") and Cinderella...
...pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...
...small, energetic tailor named Samuel Klein opened a one-room retail dress shop on Manhattan's Union Square. He had $600 in capital, 36 dresses on his racks. In less than 20 years, S. Klein On The Square became the world's largest women's-wear store, sold as much as $25,000,000 worth of clothes a year to bargain-hunting, women...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer to be considered, the interests of the nation, our export trade and all that...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...