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...superior domestics, filed through the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera House. They went directly to the star dressing room, unwrapped their parcels, and began hanging yellow brocade. By 6 p.m., all was ready for their mistress: the ugly green walls and dowdy dressing table were resplendent with silk. It was the royal treatment, for it is not every day that Maria Jeritza comes back to sing...
Some of his more sobersided fellow artists deplore Marcel Vertès. They sneer at his "commercialism" (he does covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, along with book illustrations, perfume ads, ballet sets, china, furniture, silk print and needlepoint designs), but can't help envying his commercial success. They scoff at his preference for pretty and elegant subjects, but have to admit, gritting their teeth, that Vertes (rhymes with bear says) draws and paints very prettily and elegantly indeed. They call him superficial, forget that such masters as Fragonard were...
...annual $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science went this year to Zoology Professor Carrol Milton Williams of Harvard. His research* on the hormone system that makes the native silkworm (Cecropia) turn into a moth had nothing to do with silk production; it was aimed at the central secrets of growth and life...
...hand-to-mouth life in Middleburg: his father had died when he was nine, his mother was on relief, and Bob Smith-the youngest of five kids-had had to quit school when he was in the tenth grade to take a job as spinner in a Middleburg silk mill...
...piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns to help arm the hundred local militiamen...