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...There was a mouse in that place-what he ate and how he kept alive I don't know. He kept nibbling at our hair. Next morning we greased ourselves again, wrapped wool rags around us and started off again." It was 10 o'clock when they at last reached the wrecked plane...
...double-timed all the way back into town and invested all his savings in a wool cap with earflaps and a pair of bicycle goggles. Clutching his package he trotted back to the field and unobtrusively made his way around to an abandoned hangar on the far side of the landing area. From the doorway of the hangar he watched for a chance to put his idea into effect...
...Know." Stripping off his wool cap and the handkerchief tied over his nose (see cut), Cliserio fingered the torn sleeve which was all that was left of his shirt, and told his story. "When the plane warmed up its engines," he explained, "I climbed on and got a good hold . . . Sometimes I felt hot and sometimes I felt cold, but I didn't think I'd fall off ... I didn't know where I was going, but it didn't matter-I wanted...
Turinese Tailor Antonio Santomauro, who made the elaborately embroidered Mantle of Peace worn by Pope Pius XII for special ceremonies, was busily stitching away at two more peace jackets. One, of Tibet wool, double-breasted with four gold buttons and an embroidered globe carried by two small doves, will go to Harry Truman. To Joseph Stalin, courtesy of Tailor Santomauro, will go a single-breasted job, buttoned to the throat, with one embroidered dove...
Professor Black, viewing the agricultural sector of the economy, said selective price controls might soon be needed on such currently high-demand items as wool and beef. "But until things are much clearer," be said, "we should continue to encourage dairy production and not rush to convert our feed reserves into meat." We may also need more farm machinery, he added, because the demand for labor will probably draw workers from the farms to the factories...