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...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted '20s...
Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty revival of one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...
...Silent People Speak ridicules the idea that Yugoslavia lies behind an iron curtain, and fervently portrays Tito's ruthless satrapy as a democratic government which differs from the U.S. merely in form, not in essence. It is a faithful echo of books which appeared in the '20s and '30s praising the new-type "democracy" of the Soviet Union...