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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 7

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DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, March IPS 7 7- lilndsonls -rer voouwar. 1 4.95 THE LIGHT TOUCH. THE SOFT TOUCH. THE DEFT DETAIL IN DELICATE. it -1 is .1 sr.

OPEN OR CLOSED SILHOUETTESI Spring News, Edited Especially for the Woman of Fashion Siegfried Weisberger Is No Boob MENCKENS PAL RETIRES Progress? Bah, It's 'Age of the BooV 14.95 16.95 This is the kind of talk one used to hear in this basement beer stube from Mencken, the writer the musician the scholar the Critic of the '20s. But now Siegfried, his shaggy mustache bristling and his bright blue eyes seeming to spark, is heading for the country, a farm in New Windsor, Md. U.M Beautiful news shoes the light and delicate! Light to the touch, to the eye, on the foot! We love the look of Mademoiselle's shapes for Spring: from the brilliant open-and-airy sandal to the fresh, neat, glossy closed pump. Slender, feminine, "flattering. Sizes to 10.

AAAA to B. BALTIMORE (Siegfried Weisberger, convinced that "the age of the boob is upon us," is closing his famous Peabody Bookshop, still stocked with 100,000 volumes nobody wants to read. "I predict very dark days for America," said the tld friend of H. L. Mencken.

"Everyone In the cities used to look up to the doctor, the lawyer, the professor. They were idols," he continued. "Today they all look up to the businessman." HE GESTURED with ferocious eloquence and brushed a bit of cigar ash from his tweed vest. "The people don't want books and ideals and cul ture. They only want dol.

lars. They sold 15,000 pairs of shoes last year, and this year they want to sell pairs progress," he snorts. Siegfried believes in the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, H. L. Mencken, Ger A.

Open-Toed Pump, mid-heeled, with accordion pleated bow; black patent, navy calf; 16.95 B. Cling Sling, wavy bands of black patent, 16.95 C. Halter Sling, mid-heeled, open-toed, dotted in white, bow rim; Beechwood or navy calf, 16.95. D. D'Orsay Opera; black suede; navy, black calf, 14.95 E.

Deep Shell, black patent, faille collar, 16.95 F. White Collar Pump, high heel, navy calf, 16.95 WOMEN'S SHOES-7th Farmar Bricker Says 'Lobbyists' Defeated Him man music and philosophy. He despises all forms of censorship and official meddling. He was once fined for serving beer to a 20-year-old Yale horrendous enough in Siegfried's eyes, but the final profanation was this the detectives checking his place didn't even remove their hats. I I 1 4( i -f r-f A- I 1 ATLANTA (U.R) Senator Bricker laid Thuraday that "furiout lobbying of White House and State Department Idea" defeated hi amendment Pf? to control Presidential treaty-making powers.

Reds Hit Post Near Hanoi HANOI, Indochina HPT Communist Vietminh forces attacked F. 14.95 a French outpost only six miles from Hanoi Thursday. A state of alert was declared. Red Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap un The author of the original Bricker amendment said this "pergonal and political pressure" went on "in the corridors of the Capitol, in the Senate cloakrooms and by telephone." BRICKRR SAID the Administration claimed the proposal breached the line between legislative and executive powers, but "the actual breach of that line occurred In the buttonholing of senators by high officials of the White House ataff and of the State Department." In a speech before a regional conference of the American Bar Association, Bricker said "let me assure you that the fight has only Just begun" and it "will be won." leashed hla rebel unita in the Red River Helta in a campaign which Hanoi observers said appeared aimed at influencing the Far Eastern talks in Geneva I April 28.

The -Reds hurled a sharp at tack r.t the French-held post of Senho, six miles up the river delta from The F. Command said that French and loyal Viet Nam beat off the attack. I. $15 BIG IN SIZE AND BIG IN FASHION! BOTH DRAMATIC AND PRACTICAL COMPLEMENT TO SPRING COSTUMES 10.98 32.50 THE' PRINTED SUIT DRESS ONE OF 1954 NEW WAYS WITH NAVY The new scene -brightening print, in a version that's particularly flattering to a woman. Black and white diamonds are scattered on lustrous navy acetate surah.

A slender figure is created, with ribbons, at neckline. Women's 1272-1872. 49.95 GREEN ROOM in tha Woodward Shop Floor IN HUDSON'S COAT SHOP TODAY, MARCH WITH A NEW SPRING COLLECTION Mr. Albert hinder Creator of Shagmoor Coats C. I0.9B Handsome exaggerations that go shopping or globe-hopping with equal aplomb conversation pieces wherever they go! Room aplenty inside with hideaway pockets, too.

Handbags -in many interesting textures. A. Black plastic patent, Also: Black, brown, navy or bamboo calf, 32.50. B. Bucket type, hinged circular opening, facile closing.

Black; navy, beech calf. $15. C. Comes in natural linen, black motiara, black plastic patent. 10.98.

Black, navy, ginger, pine, bamboo calf. 13.50. Also, larger size in black plastic patent! 13.50. D. Gigantic svelte shape, tortoise shell frame.

Black, bronze, gunmetal plastic patent. 16.50. Plui 20 Fadarai Tai HANDBAGS I tWodwardE Meet Mr. Under! Lei him help you choose your new Spring Shagmoor! Beautiful new wools! Lilting colors! Long, short styles! Proportioned sizes. Priced from 39.95 to $55.

tti Floor Woodward Section THE SOFTLY ROLLED TUXEDO WRAP COAT, IN RICHLY TEXTURED WOOL The woman who wears this- coat will wear 1 954's look of poised elegance. The tuxedo line, traced with hand stitching, is slenderizing, stunning when wrapped! The fine wool boude is Forstmann's Ambra, with rabbit hair for additional surface interest. In navy, orcamel tan; women't half sizes. $95. FASHION COATS In (da Woodward Shopi 7lU FU.

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