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Sometimes we thought it was and sometimes we thought it wasn't. But now that there are finally Bermuda shorts on the streets, mud on the ground and athletes on the fields, we can be certain that Spring is here...
...British Bermuda, U.S. tourists keep to the hotels and playgrounds, Negro residents keep to settlements like Pond Hill, and the eminent old white families keep to themselves-except when they are busy running the colony's commerce, government and society. Among the oldest and most eminent are the Outerbridges, who date from 1620. They are so distinguished and numerous that a somewhat tired joke describes Bermuda as "a series of islands connected by Outerbridges.'' Not lightly is an Outerbridge expelled from such venerable institutions as the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the Mid-Ocean Golf Club...
Stuart*Outerbridge started out a conventional scion of aristocracy, approved by all the first families, from the Triming-hams (Bermuda shorts) to the Trotts (hotels). He lived in the U.S. for a dozen years, first married Alice Wolcott, daughter of the chairman of the board of Pennsylvania's Lukens Steel Co.; they had four children. Then he quit a Pennsylvania advertising job and bought Bermuda's Swizzle Inn, a rum-punch spot, later added a nightclub called Angel's Grotto. The genteel ginmill business put him in contact with Manhattan cafe society and entertainment types...
AIRLINE MERGER between Eastern and Colonial Airlines will finally go through after nearly two years of legal battles. Under the $12 million deal, Eastern will get 13 planes, some 2,700 miles of new routes to Montreal and Bermuda...
Even the dashing young man in the plaid jacket, red Bermuda shorts, and plaid knccsox, could not provoke more raised eyebrows than did Marlene Dictrich in her gown of filmy gauze. Miss Dictrich demonstrated the truth of the widely accepted notion that women's clothing attracts more attention than do men's. Yet feminine styles and trends are oftimes obscure to the Harvard man, to say nothing of the Radcliffe girl...