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out the compromise. Then in the end, the consumer delivers the final verdict. 

So I confess that I felt a twinge or two of nervousness when the power-loomed fabrics first went on display in New York. My feelings, I suppose, were very much like those of theater people when they are awaiting the early editions of the newspaper after an opening night. 

One of the first came from Eugenia Sheppard. She wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, "The machine-made group includes a wonderful cotton and raw silk with a raised banana leaf design across the surface. Only a few of the Liebes fabrics are flat, since the designer thinks that raised, three-dimensional effects add, psychologically at least, to room comfort." The New York Times headline said, "Color Choices Are Striking." In her column, "More For Your Money," Genevieve Smith wrote, "Machine-made adapta-