LECTURER HAS MAGIC CARPET COLLEGE WOMEN 'TAKE' A COLORFUL JOURNEY

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• Publication Date: November 3, 1964
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DAYTON, OHIO
JOURNAL HERALD
M. 96,850
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Papa
Edit Otlar
Papa Papa
DatNOV 3 1_64
Lecturer Has Magic .Carpet
College
A Colorful ,dour
CPYRGHT
In the first
200 women on
yourself!
Not
members
By Polly Thontas
Journal Herald Staff Writer
`CPYRGHT
place, it's a;neat trick if You can pack some
a magic carpet and still find a seat for
only did H. William DeLong do just that, he took
of the College Women's club and their guests
along the spice
FOIAb3b
"I had been 'in the diplomatic
service for 15 years. My work
had been of a secret nature. I
hnd-been in (, countries. But
it Was of no value to a elan
coming hack to the States. It
was of no value to big husi-
by camel caravans as far
birth. of Christ.
lip took the women on a
strange and colorful journey,
to all the old cities '. . back
ill lime.
11 was a dt?a-nuitic tour,
filled with DeLong's people
and what they wore - and
w hat they s t i I l wear. llR
talked, the scene carte alive
as Its modeled and then dis-
played dozens of costmues on
screens - rich . silks, heavily
c.nibroidered and w o in e n
hangings, costumes of camel
drivers, sheiks, kings.
By the end of his talk the
entire stage was filled with Far
East. fabrics and fashions, all
accounted for, all with a fasci-
nating story.
What: the women didn't know
is that. DeLong arrived from
New York by bus. Carrying two
average-size suitcases. No
truck, no van. He and his one-
man show are one. The man
and the suitcac^s!
?I? ?H ?I?
town. Reading, Pa. (Ile still
Sut;h as how does he know
has a home there, although he
so much? I-low did a man who Lives in Jamaica Estates, Long
has served as military attache, ,'Island', N. Y.) Ile saw an ad in
been a diplomat, a member of the paper for a linguist to learn
Ci.\~kCID, . CIC and other in- the funeral business'
1.alkuig about fashions? _
It's a long story and an in- university to learn it," lie re-
calls. "Then worked for IR
ter esting one. months. It was painfully 411111,
BeLong's last diplomatic with very little need for for-
post was In Russia. In War- eign languages! So I hooked
saw, Poland, tinder Stalin's up with a casket. firm.
rule, he took ill with hepa- "I made dials with funeral
liras. For' six months he was directors. If they'd buy a cos-
hospitalized as "the property" ket, I'd speak to t:heir club-.
of a (,'oniniunist. hospital. All Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis
he can fay Is that when he I sold many, many caskets.
finally Was recovered front "Then I set up my own cos-
Walter Reed usseIed hosand senI t to ket firm and have it to this
P1 ta he day. But my avocation has
weighed 8$ pounds! turned into my vocation he-
cause finally the wives began
to want. inc for their clubs.
One thing led to another. Now
1 have five talks, including one
ion the Pennsylvania D u t c It
. (which I arn), one oil men's
:'hats, and just r cetitly I pre-
RUT THERE ARE m a n y
things he doesn't tell, except
at. luncheon. And since he is
becoming known as "the sweet-
heart of clubwomen" on this,
his third tour around the couti-
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CPYRGHT
in I Rike's Empire room, Bill DeLou.g shows "uninlca- robe and headdress. Wall hanging at left is from, Bing
bited" pantaloons from _Jordan to Mra. W. Fay, Alter Tut's tomb. (Staff Photo, by Al Wilson)-
rniered at Town, hall in -New fabrics; I'tn going to do for sntnething,ne%w. I try to give ? proves that life can be fun, for
York with a new talk about the clubwouren that Ziegfeld polor, culture and "entertain' no reason at all,
fabrics and fashions did .for showgirls' went;" As the Pennsylvania Dutch
,"In It I use 800 yawls of `'But I do try to' present Another thuig lie, does - he` say, '."Just for so'
PRIOR TO lecture to College lr1oinen'a club yeslerriay . mid Mrs. Paul Dittricle (right). He's wearing, Bedouin
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