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...Pathetic Treasures." "One entire jetty," cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, "was packed with these refugees, sitting on their pathetic bundles or clutching them with the strength of despair. What did these simple, bewildered people seize in the moment of panic? A small Turkish carpet, a radio, a sewing machine were among the treasures. A three-year-old hugged his pet pigeon. One woman brought a battered aluminum chamberpot. Hour after hour they sat, waiting for barges, British landing craft and other odd boats now doing ferry service across the blue bay to Acre." Other thousands fled to the Arab-held...
...palms (to be replaced as needed) to give an outdoor effect. Elsewhere, she used some of her typical tricks. To make some of the cavernous rooms more cozy, she set up latticed, movable walls. A typical bedroom had sky-blue walls, Tunis-blue furniture, sea-green draperies and carpet, and touches...
...spring's gaudy carpet rolled north last week, the drive-in theaters were opening almost as fast as the daffodils. This week, New York City will get its first "ozoner": a 600-car, $300,000 affair on Staten Island. Six were open in Dayton, Ohio alone, and six would be running in St. Louis by summer. According to Boxoffice, more than 200 new drive-ins this year would swell the U.S. total-a mere 100-odd when war ended-to 546 built & building...
...hair, and mud may not be thrown into the street; you can't beat a carpet or tie a horse to a tree on any public ground. Even gambling is covered by these ancient rules. No person, according to one ordinance, may expose a gaming table of any kind in any lane, alley, or street...
Other expenses include $1500 worth of costumes, designed by director Robert F. Keahey '45 and manufactured in Boston, brightly colored banners to substitute for backdrops, and a huge green-and-white-checkered carpet...