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...seamstress. Small, nimble, birdlike, she is incredibly skillful with the needle, sews better than anyone in her shop. Although she is reputed to be the daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the dressmaker's dressmaker. She achieves a classic elegance of line at the expense of color. To make her gowns cling to the figure she cuts her materials on the bias. A couturier for nearly 40 years, she designs her models on a famed wooden doll...
...Glen Cove, L. I., Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane lay ill of pneumonia, from a cold contracted while returning from Chicago where she saw her No. 1 horse Cavalcade win the Arlington Classic...
...last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery had been second. Whether the misfortune of racing against a horse whom experts last week were comparing to Man o' War was an insuperable obstacle was what Mr. Vanderbilt wanted to learn when he entered Discovery in the Arlington Classic at Chicago last week...
...management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...
...from companies exhibiting at its winter and summer shows. This year manufacturers hope to tempt the public into renewed buying of modern furniture, which has toned down considerably since its introduction in 1928. Of the 20,000 pieces on exhibit at the mart, 26% were modern "functional" (extreme) and "classic" (toned down), 30% Early American, 23% commercial and nondescript, 10% Georgian, the rest Louis, Early English, Empire and Biedermeier...