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Parisian circus menageries, "after wartime dispersal throughout occupied Europe, are back in slightly thinner, but no less entertaining, form." And for the tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
...Herbert Hoover lives quietly for most of the year in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. His wife died three years ago. His hair is a little thinner, his face a little heavier, his stiff collars a little lower. He has given up all his business directorships, spends much of his time collecting historical records for Stanford University's Hoover Library of War, Revolution and Peace. Last February he made an exhausting, 6,000-mile trip to survey Europe's food needs...
...Summing up a batch of recent studies comparing U.S. women of today with those of 50 years ago, the New York Times found that women now are taller and thinner, live longer but get grey earlier, have bigger feet, eat less but do more heavy drinking, are less prudish, less weepy and less moral, marry earlier, cook better meals but make poorer mothers, are much less satisfied "with their lot as women." Independently, Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and coauthor of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, proclaimed that U.S. women are the unhappiest in the world...
Button, Button. In Spokane, Frank Bunker received from WAA 60,000 yards of thread, 50,000 shirt buttons, a barrel of laundry ink thinner, wondered what puzzled laundry was opening up the pipe, rivets and steel he thought he had ordered...
...Britain could not get much better terms on this and its other sterling debts, its chance of payment was thinner than Lord Keynes's ghost...