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...depths of the Depression, Connally's father mustered enough money to send John to the University of Texas, where he studied law, stacked books in the library for 17? an hour, picked up pocket money as college campus representative for Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. He ran for student-body president-mainly because it paid $30 a month-and won. He also met Idanell Brill, a coed who had won such titles as University of Texas Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen. They were married...
...Laurent's lean, leggy line is a canny blending of swashbuckle and swank known as the "Robin Hood Look." Into a Sherwood Forest setting enhanced by a pair of real copper beech trees trooped the svelte St. Laurent mannequins-all bundled up in shirts, jerkins, tunics, dark knitted hose and seven-league boots. A big hit of the collection was a costume consisting of tight pants, mid-thigh-length boots and a hair seal pullover, with a Robin Hood hat and chained pendant. Pageboy hairdos were common...
...Beech Nut Life Savers Inc., Canajoharie, N.Y., $443,460; Pillsbury Co., Minneapolis, $250,000; Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, $191,000; Green Giant Co., Le Sueur, Minn., $135,500. Under...
average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...
...Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith who had designed his suit...