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...biggest part of the business is still the beauty parlor, of which there are now 127,000. They employ 350,000 people (a skilled operator in an expensive shop makes upwards of $100 a week) and take in better than $1 billion a year. To them each week troop some 3,750,000 U.S. women, who spend an average of more than $5 per visit. The beauty parlors (known in the trade as salons) offer everything from pedicures, manicures and facials to "body-contouring" (pummeling and steaming), supply false eyelashes, fingernails and "transformations" (false hair). Best & Co.'s store...
Fire licked down a wooden pier and set ablaze the old decommissioned transport tied in Baltimore harbor. Confiscated from Germany, a troop transport in two wars, a passenger liner in the '20s with a record of three groundings, three collisions, two murders, Prohibition raids and countless small fires, the George Washington, which carried Woodrow Wilson and a cargo of great hopes to the Versailles Peace Conference, was gutted beyond repair...
Cuernavaca, Mexico, best known as a place for eating, dancing and laughter, last week played host to a serious conference: a troop of eminent physicians, mostly from the U.S., gathered for the first International Symposium on Steroid Hormones. Attending the conference by proxy were millions of the desperately ill. The mysterious steroid hormones, all built neatly around the same four-ringed nucleus, offer promise of understanding a long list of chronic diseases...
...unless the Communist Chinese step in to help them. While the Chinese are known to be in close touch with Ho, the six months' rainy season that starts in May will make the roads in northern Viet Nam and southern China all but impassable to large-scale Chinese troop movements. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh were attacking on a 75-mile front north of Hanoi, deploying 30 to 40 battalions for daylight battle in open country for the first time. At week's end the French were holding firm, smashing the Communists with artillery. The test of De Lattre...
...province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering was the dirty robes they wore. But within...