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Reported Dead. Josephine Carson Baker Lion (professionally: Josephine Baker), 36, rich-brown torchsinger and scorchdancer, longtime toast of the Paris stage; of a lingering illness; in Casablanca. Her mother was a washwoman in St. Louis, her father a porter. At 18, already a veteran of colored revues, she took her elaborate curves and odd distinctions-uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice-from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris...
...protection, the Navy gave her the best it had-an escort of destroyers. The old "covered wagon," waddling under her sawed-off flying deck like a washwoman under a bundle, set off on the highest adventure of her career...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...piece of bleached cotton cloth and placed in a jar of hot (160 degrees F.) soapy water with ten ⅜-in. rubber balls. The jar is whirled in a rotating machine for 30 minutes. This procedure rubs the cloth samples as hard as any washing machine or washwoman can ever do. After thorough rinsing in warm (110 degrees F.) water, drying and ironing (at 275 degrees F.), the specimen is compared with the unwashed specimen. If no difference is discernible to the naked eye, and if the piece of white cotton cloth is not stained, the color is fast enough...
...swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...