Eleanor Roosevelt witnesses fashion and service in New York
Eleanor Roosevelt tours City Hall and the Soldiers and Sailors club, praises New York dress labels and labor conditions, and visits English textile exhibits. She notes female sewers, jewelry of support for workers, and the wartime alliance with Iceland while reflecting on democracy and kinship.
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City Hall
New York City
David Dubinsky
United States
Dorothy Anderson
New York
Enchanting All-White Frocks For Evening Wear
All white lace and sheer fabrics lead this season’s party frocks with airy elegance. American made gowns feature rayon slips, black bodices, and eyeleted organdy. Details include gold buttons, jeweled embroidery, and versatile snap buttons for quick color changes.
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Jersey
Western Newspaper Union
Vacation Outfit with Rayon Sheer Stripe Dress
A simple rayon sheer striped dress serves as a versatile summer vacation outfit across America. The design features broad horizontal shoulder stripes and vertical stripes for an optical illusion, available in brown and blue navy and white gray and white, with a flaring brimmed hat and gauntlet gloves to complete the look.
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America
Chic Fur Capes Take Center Stage This Season
Fashion eyes fur capes as the new calendar staple. Capes come in lengths from shoulder to waist and longer. Transform an old coat with a furrier into a fresh cape or buy new to capture the latest chic look. These capes are touted as the final word in style.
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Fashion
Linen dresses and suits set season's smart tone
Women embrace linen fashion with black brown navy and dark green suits and one piece dresses. Non wrinkle linen pieces feature chic details, braid trims, large buttons and feminine lingerie accents. The dress resembling a suit and princess styles remain popular for town wear.
Lingerie Fashion Promotes Strawberry Print Rose Motif
Lingerie and negligee lines in cotton or silk feature rose motifs with strawberry patterned prints, generating strong buyer interest and enthusiasm. The new rose motif designs highlight bold fruit and floral styling appealing to shoppers seeking fresh intimates.
Garbo Picture Starts Friday Amid Superstition Jokes
The Garbo film production begins Friday the thirteenth with cast reactions to superstition. Melvyn Douglas and Ruth Gordon share playful fears while Janet Blair signs for Three Girls About Town and David Niven earns a promotion and major rank. Penny Singleton stars in Cowboy Joe with Glenn Ford. Mike Himmler office scenes drive Underground authenticity, and Bob Hope fronts Louisiana Purchase songs amid radio and film projects.
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Melvyn Douglas
Ruth Gordon
Roland Young
Miss Garbo
Penny Singleton
Blondie
Glenn Ford
Hollywood
Sewing circle design with low neckline dress pattern 8968
Ag inine charms a low cut square neckline full gathered bodice tight girdle waistband girl ish puffed sleeves and a billowy gathered skirt. Pattern No. 8968 sizes 12 to 20. Size 14 requires 312 yards 36 inch fabric without nap 742 yards thereafter. Send your order to the Sewing Circle.
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Inine
My Three Friends Quote of Friendship and Insight
A brief aphorism lists three friends as love, hate, and indifference. Each companion shapes the speaker by teaching tenderness caution and self reliance, reflecting on how relationships form character. The anonymous reflection emphasizes how differing attitudes from others mentor personal growth.
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Anon
Misfits Seek Fit in Oddly Shaped Roles
A humorous observation notes how people with mismatched traits force into unsuitable slots, the triangular into a square hole and the square into a round one, illustrating mismatch and adaptability in social roles.
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Sydney Smith
World's Largest Separation Test With Reason
A quoted aphorism by Warburton tests the idea that reason reveals truth rather than ridicule the claim. The line frames reason as a tool for truth in a philosophical tone.
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Warburton
Radio and Screen News From Hollywood Endings and Comebacks
Ona Munson finishes in Wild Geese Calling at 20th Century Fox and takes a radio break as Edward G. Robinsons Big Town ends for the summer. Ruth Hussey and Robert Young star in Married Bachelors, Jane Wyatt leads opposite Dennis OKeefe in Week End for Three, Shirley Temple returns in Cathleen, and Myrna Loy with William Powell await The Shadow of the Thin Man.
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Ona Munson
20Th Century-Fox
Edward G. Robinson
Santa Barbara
Ruth Hussey
Robert Young
Jane Wyatt
Dennis O'Keefe
RKO
Shirley Temple
Cathleen
Myrna Loy
William Powell
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Soldiers and Sailors Club
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Hotel Astor
Scotland
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Iceland
By Cherie Nicholas
Virginia Vale
Janet Blair
Hal Kemp
Columbia
Joan Blondell
David Niven
Bing Crosby
English
France
March of Time
New England
Midwest
Texas
Heinrich Himmler
Warner Bros
Himmler
Kurt Schmidt
Bob Hope
Louisiana Purchase
Paramount
Eddie Bracken
Hap Hazard
Ransom Sherman
Edna O'Dell
Billy Mills
CBS
Crosley
Greta Garbo
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Diane
Pitts
Meno
Emerson
ARMY
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