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...first-class international rumpus was in the making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
...only D-plus-19 when the Americans rolled into Lyons, France's dull, straight-laced third city (pop.580,000), long the world's silk capital. There was no telling how far beyond the city advance guards had penetrated, no telling how far beyond that the Maquis were solidly at work. The Nineteenth was kaput...
...with bare brown legs, and Tripoli-tanean sandals, they lose all that stuffy, towny look that prints too often have. . . 'Gabriella Sports' is now owned by Countess di Robilant [the former Carolyn Kent of Asheville, N.C.], who . . . makes most of the dresses. . . . There's beautiful, pure silk shantung to be had here (all fabrics are fabulously high-priced), which she uses in lovely colour combinations...
...made-to-order dresses cost about $90. They still use copies of Schiaparelli prints, but no new fabrics can be had from the north. . . . The Baronne de Reutern is designing amusing false jewellery. Since metals are out of reason here, she has used such mediums as horsehair and coloured silk cords on which to display the stones...
Married. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 24, twice All-America Michigan halfback, twice reported lost on duty; and Hollywood starlet Elyse Knox, 26, dressed in a gown made from his bullet-riddled silk parachute; in Ann Arbor, Mich...