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In one corner of the Auditorium, a physician who studies Indian medicine had brought along a billowing squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how...
On the brink of Europe, facing Asia across the shimmering Bosporus, the Hill of Pera is crowned by one of the swankest old hotels in the world. It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees...
Mr. Wolff's $25,000 worth of puppets, sets, furniture and props fill 27 trunks. His fee for a week's engagement: $1,500. So far the puppet opera has cleared enough to pay Mrs. Wolff's debts and mortgage.
Madame Lupescu had sent on ahead to Portugal three trunks full of her furs and most of the enormous treasure with which she and Carol fled Rumania. Last week she simply sent her servants out of the Andalusia Palace, gathered up a purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at...
Hacking through the tangled jungle of purchasing, priorities and production, U. S. defense workers, from OPM down to field buyers, see plenty of trees, fallen trunks, clogged footpaths. Great danger to defense and to the future economy of the U. S. is that they are too busy with the trees...