Word: betsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Levi's. "Girls need to design something that nobody else has, and now they can," says Michael Mott, 27, successor to Betsey Johnson as chief designer for Paraphernalia. Mott is all for the hippies, hence his American Indian costume. But like many other young people, he is also tuned in to other cultures, as witness his fur-trimmed midiskirts, borrowed from Persia. The same is true for Deanna Littell, 29, who finds ethnic inspiration in the costumes of Polish peasants and Russian Cossacks; Gayle Kirkpatrick, 34, who adapts the dress of Persian houris; Edie Gladstone, 39, who fancies...
...Whitney again, asking him not to print the story. He also placed a total of four calls to Trib Editor James Bellows and rang up other editors, hinting of a libel suit or an injunction. Then he tried to phone Whitney again. Instead, Shawn got Whitney's wife Betsey, whom he lectured about the Trib's irresponsible journalism...
...assistant to Bobby Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign, and a top administrator in the Peace Corps. Further enhancing his political credentials among Democrats is the fact that he is married to Franklin Roosevelt's granddaughter Kate. Her parents, California's Democratic Congressman James Roosevelt and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, were divorced when Kate was four; Betsey later married New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, who legally adopted Kate...
...taken to refer to Honora's flight from the Internal Revenue Service (never having paid her income tax, she sails to Europe to avoid arrest), it might just as well be that of Emile and Melissa; of Moses, who takes, with suicidal singlemindedness, to drink; or of Coverley and Betsey, his lonely wife, who exposes them to ridicule among their neighbors at a certain missile site. All the Wapshots are involved in scandals of one sort or another, and Cheever seems to be saying that the fault is not theirs but society...