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...first big cut in wool textiles; it shaved some of its spring line prices from the year's high, and many a wool user, such as men's suit makers, who had been threatening price rises, now considered cuts in their lines for next spring. U.S. carpet men, loaded with big inventories, have cut prices 20% since spring, and last week the biggest of them, Bigelow-Sanford, announced a third-round 10% slice...
...interests of mental health, the Boston press all but cleared the Red Sox off their front pages and substituted MacArthur. Coverage was detailed from his departure over a red carpet at New York's Waldorf-Astoria and included even a description of the general's meals (on Wednesday his supper consisted of a pitcher of orange juice...
Most of the songs Shoshana sings are the kind that Jewish men & women have sung since the days of David and Bathsheba: prayers, laments, love songs, or songs that tell a story, such as The Magic Carpet-an account of the exodus of modern Yemenite Jews from their home on the Arabian peninsula. Few in the audience can understand the Hebrew words, but Shoshana's gestures, mobile face and throbbing voice make them exciting listening anyway...
Refreshing Prejudices. In the presidential mansion with its nine bathrooms and 20 rooms, visitors would sometimes come upon him playing carpet bowls in the state parlor with one of his four children, or singing with a group of Whiffenpoofs about the fire ("I'm an honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows...
...takes to childbed nine months before the event-the studio can't be too careful with such a property. To pass the time, Effie writes her autobiography: how a sweet, simple girl of 16 walked straight off the streets of Kansas City on to the broad "expense of carpet" that leads to Louis B. Mayer's desk...