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...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...
...week, as he toured through New Hampshire, Ike set the political Geiger counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (who turned out in Bermuda-length shorts to play golf with Ike at Whitefield's Mountain View course). At Concord he explained to a crowd of 20,000 gathered around the old (1819) granite State Capitol that Adams was always lecturing the presidential staff on the glories of New Hampshire. After assuring the voters...
...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining officially approved a summer and tropical uniform: "silver-tan" cotton twill Bermuda-length shorts, long socks, short-sleeved shirts, belted bush jackets and pith helmets. The new uniform will not be available in a post exchange until this fall, will not be issued to recruits until next July, and will not be worn throughout the Air Force until 1959. For the time being, no one will be allowed to wear shorts off-base. Explained an Air Force officer, "We have to get used to looking at our knees, and that's going...