Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda shorts and pedal pushers jauntily navigate what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...
Battle Cry. In Washington, D.C., James Sullivan was acquitted on an assault charge after testifying that Loren Meredith Jr. drove by his house, spotted him wearing Bermuda shorts, shouted: "Hey there, who's the sissy wearing his mother's panties...
...picture caption read: PRIESTS IN SHORTS. The photograph showed two Episcopal clergymen in Northfield, Minn. last week for the national convention of Episcopal Young Churchmen-standing about coolly in Bermuda shorts. The picture pulled a flurry of mail from: 1) Episcopalians who objected to men of the cloth baring their knees; 2) more Roman Catholics who resented the application of the title "priests" to Protestants...
...Feinberg's air of unhurried assurance belies a dozen outside activities. He heads Brandeis University's board of trustees, directs fund-raising for causes ranging from the Truman library to the United Jewish Appeal. In his spare hours Feinberg finds time (and an opportunity to display Catalina Bermuda shorts) for golf with his red-haired wife, also likes to swim, play squash,' handball and gin rummy. He has few expensive tastes beyond 60? cigars and conservative, $200 custom-made suits, says: "I drive the oldest Cadillac in Westchester...
...works. Purred she: "I hope to have a lasting affection for Edmund, but that's as far as it goes." Less than a month after the birth of her second child, Rhett (TIME, July 18), Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel cut a lissome figure in Bermuda, where she was gathering strength for an October stint in a Las Vegas pleasure dome. Asked if the Nevada jaunt augurs a nightclub career, Singer Munsel piff-poofed: "No! Las Vegas will mean only a onetime excursion into another field so that I can get some of the innate...