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...into billfolds or handbags have frequently got themselves into trouble and long angered Party bosses. German Communist leaders finally had a bright idea: they directed that in future, Party membership cards must be carried in a specially designed bag made of transparent plastic, hung from the neck on a silk cord. A female comrade, reported by the Communist press to have protested that the new order seemed directed only at men, was assured that Communist women should also carry the bag, suspended between their breasts. Said Berlin Communist headquarters: "The highest document we own must be carried near...
Last week President Harry Truman sent Under Secretary of State Edward Miller to San Jose, the cool, green capital of Costa Rica. There, amidst the yellow silk tapestries of the one-story' Foreign Office, Miller pinned on a beaming, weeping Ulate the U.S. white-&-gold Legion of Merit in the highest grade for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in office...
...slavishly repeating their natural weaving styles on the special platforms they end up weaving cylinders of silk instead of normal cocoons. The two escape vales through which the mature moth must emerge are set at opposite points of the eliptical double layer cocoon, so that the insect is forever sealed within a trap of its own making...
...advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life of $10 silk underwear and Pierce-Arrows...
Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...