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...make this recording, NBC men brought four Commandomen to their Manhattan studios and recorded ad lib interviews on their experiences. Then NBC arranged for a speech by Commando Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The records were skillfully woven into a composite half-hour interview...
...effort to restore to rugmaking a little ancient Persian fun, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on an exhibition of rugs designed by modern artists, woven by famed Grand Rapids Rugmaker Stanislav V'Soske. The results could be bought as well as looked...
Exactly what roles Masslinn is playing in the war effort, J. & J. cannot reveal. But numerous possibilities are implied in its numerous merits; it is: 1) light- 14-16 yards per lb., against woven cotton's 6¼ yards; 2) cheap-basic price about 4? a yard (comparable to the price of gauze); 3) easily sterilized, highly absorbent, stronger when wet than dry; 4) easy to produce-can be turned out ten times faster than loomed yardage; 5) better than the finest-weave fabric as a vehicle for acid-resistant, waterproof or fireproof coatings-because it contains no interstices...
...given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed by Vichy to the General himself, was that his wife had sent him lengths of thread in every gift package, and these he had woven into rope...
...reassure nervous pants-prospects, Vogue printed "A Primer on Pants," specifying: When to Wear Slacks (in the country, war service duty, other hard work); How to Buy Them (snug-fitting or closely woven fabrics to hold shape; with fly front to camouflage breadth through middle); How to Wear Them (with simple jewelry, low-heeled shoes, and unself-consciously); then destructively summed up: "Slacks look wonderfully well when they're right, incredibly bad when they're wrong. . . . A skirt is never wrong...