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Paris' fall fashion shows opened, and Schiaparelli's outstanding contribution proved to be a bustle-a bustle on almost everything. Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard. Favorite couturière of the boulevardiers was doubtless Mlle. Alixt: she had daytime dresses with necklines clear to the waistline...
...frisky Washington Senators, who have burnt up the spring-exhibition circuit with 21 wins and ten defeats, could be kept out of the American League first division. Almost sure shots for the second-division underworld were the White Sox, the Browns (whose brief period of glory-the pennant in 1944 -was definitely over) and Connie Mack's Athletics...
...dark blue felt, trimmed with 10,000 burnt matches, struck...
...above all he would be remembered for his work during the war years when, as F.D.R.'s agent, he was the confidential troubleshooter sent to fix the hotboxes and burnt-out bearings of the worldwide coalition which won World War II. He was the prodder and pusher for more war production, the passionate pleader for unity, the go-between from Roosevelt to Churchill and Stalin. He was and regarded himself as an instrument, with the selflessness of an instrument...
...could reach, is a waste of ashes and ruin. The banks of the river are covered with dead and wounded; the rising waters have already covered some of the corpses. Naked burned cadavers are particularly numerous. Among them are wounded who still live. A few have crawled under burnt-out autos and trams...