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...Women look as if they were hung in armor," decided Bright-Young-Briton Cecil Beaton (now a greying 43) after a good look at the New Look. "The owner's personality is lost. They look too soignée and immaculate. There's nothing new about it." Photographer-Costumer-Litterateur-Interior Decorator Beaton, who recently designed a new costume for Vivien Leigh (it took him ten minutes, he said), was in Manhattan to "tank up" against another spell of creation back home. He would, as usual, redecorate a hotel suite so that he could live...
...down. Patton was ordered not to seize Falaise. . . . The real reason was Montgomery's insistence that he close the gap. He demanded-and got his way-that Patton be halted from springing the trap he had forged. . . . During that time, the bulk of the trapped German armor escaped, to fight again and kill United States and British troops on other battlefields...
...Stays & Armor...
...husbands refuse to plunk down their hard-earned dollars for these backdated, repelling suits of armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
...moment that thousands of U.S. moppets would long remember. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy,* had just leaped, with suitable sound effects, from a plane. The hero wore a suit of armor and two parachutes. But one chute failed to open. Then it developed that something was wrong with the other chute, too. Jack plunged earthward...