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Customers went after 8,500 yards of brand-new carpeting, 27,500 yards of used carpet and padding and four museum-piece Orientals (one, a 200-year-old Sarouk, originally cost $32,000). There was all the flotsam & jetsam of a huge hotel: used umbrellas, 750 pairs of doormen's gloves, 742 cuspidors, red ties for bellboys (and electric tie pressers), wheelchairs and cribs, the flags of all nations, an elephant tusk. And there was Lot #3835: the stuffed head of Lucky Boy II, 4-H champion steer of 1941, which a Wilmette woodworker snapped...
Carter Glass sat carpet-slippered and ailing before a log fire on the glass-enclosed sun porch of his Lynchburg, Va., home. On Monday he had celebrated his 85th birthday.* On Wednesday a new Congress convened without him. The Senate's cantankerous grand old man was too ill to go to Washington to take what may be his last oath. The Senate adopted a rare resolution and went...
London had learned of her pending visit, but no one said just when she would arrive. Even when the royal red carpet was rolled out in Paddington Station, no official winked significantly. Said a loitering cabbie: "Naow, they told me the Queen was giving away chocolates." When the station's news vendor finally caught a glimpse of her, he let out a surprised murmur: "Well, who would have thought...
...doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed...
Last March Dinah went home to Nashville to sing at a war rally. She was met by local dignitaries. Crowds cheered as she tripped down a red carpet from the train to the biggest limousine in town. A motorcycle corps escorted her as the procession swirled into Church Street-Nashville's Fifth Avenue. Dinah burst into tears, could not sing a note...