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...year-old Girl Scout, had the biggest day of her life. In Olympia, site of the Temple of Zeus, she kindled a flame for the Olympic Games at London by focusing the sun's rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted. Khaki-clad riflemen and mortar...
...because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because it was so nice and bright. She had thus many small sources of pleasure, inoperative perhaps on deeper intellects, which, added together, made a sort of comfortable wooly garment for her mind...
...theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...this way, startled customers-and the garment industry-were shown a new technique in suitmaking: the "PhotoMetric method." Before long, many a hardheaded textileman thinks, the PhotoMetric method will cause something like a revolution in the men's and women's suit industry by radically changing tailoring methods...
Others on the School Faculty included Augustus Tyler, Political Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Palmer Weber, Director of Research for the CIO Political Action Committee; and the legislative representatives for both the Massachusetts...