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Harold, you see, writes at night, and, as he finishes each page, rolls it into a little ball and puts it in his coat pocket (he reads that somewhere.) And then he dreams, strange dream of motorcycles and frisbee discs, the mystery of Bermuda shorts and one summer of happiness. Harold is, as well as an artist, a dreamer...
...trade worked up to $1,200,000. but the imbalance was still at a ratio of about 8 to 1. And Ireland is only one of many. Of the 125 entities with which Canada trades, no fewer than 86 have an unfavorable Canadian trade balance. Among the more spectacular: Bermuda (purchases: $3,000,000. sales: $248,000), Union of South Africa (purchases: $48.4 million, sales: $6,800,000). The Netherlands (purchases: $70 million, sales: $25 million...
...regalia last week. What drives the girls mad-and may well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging costumes, fortyish ladies don them for exercising. They even have a certain vogue among lady golfers...
...Like Bermuda shorts, the tights (variously known as leotards, leotights and legotards) got their start last fall in Eastern women's colleges, where the girls like to be demure in a worldly sort of way. This summer, after the Manhattan fashion shows, they swept the U.S. Detroit's Winkelman Bros, department store sold out its entire stock of 1,000 leotards the first week they went on sale. Boston's Filene's has stocked them on each of its seven selling floors. On one day alone, a single Manhattan newspaper carried nine ads for the tights...
...Chief of Naval Operations. He put in for sea duty soonest, was cited by the Navy Secretary for "aggressive fighting spirit" while commanding Destroyer Squadron Ten in the North Africa landings. He got the Legion of Merit for a brilliant training job commanding the Atlantic Fleet's Bermuda-based shakedown group for new destroyers and destroyer escorts. In late 1944 he pleaded against Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's ruling that he must stay in the training command-"where you are hitting your peak"-finally got command of the new 45,000-ton battleship Iowa in Admiral William...