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Only his silk-vested and sombreroed courtiers realized how sick a man was King Feisal of Irak last month when, after his soldiers and some fierce border Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean...
...elderly apple vendor named Mrs. Nellie McCarthy to have her hair marcelled, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria in a silk dress. To exploit Bureau of Missing Persons, First National promised, in advertisements, to pay $10,000 to Manhattan's missing Judge Joseph F. Crater in case he asked for it in person at the box office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book...
...blooms, next 43 more. Visitors were disappointed by the little yellowish blossoms, scarcely more spectacular than the buds. Last week's New Yorker, going to press before the four-weeks-overdue plant had put out its first blossom, beat Manhattan newspapers by printing a cartoon of a silk-hatted committee timing the blooming of a century plant with the cracker, "It's been a hundred years and ten minutes exactly...
...appointment to see him. Returning later, they were ushered into the office of a dignified, white-haired executive. Straightway they fell to questioning him, accused him of operating a chain-selling racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed he was not Maxwell H. Brown but Theodore C. Packard, 65, unemployed actor. He said he had accepted an offer of $250 to play the part of a big businessman for half...
Well aware that silk could make a permanent comeback only by regaining its market, spry Gosuke Imai as president of the Japan Filatures Association decided to forget his years, to woo America in the name of silk. With seven fellow ambassadors he landed at San Francisco four weeks ago. All were clad from head to foot in silk-silk suits, silk shirts, silk shorts, silk socks, silk everything save shoes. Their chief object was to persuade U. S. males to wear suits of heavy silk, rlbbed weaves, diagonals, failles (which at present prices could be made...