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Against a background of white tablecloths and candlelight, preteen girls who sign up for "White Gloves and Party Manners" are instructed in such arcane lore as curtsying ("When you are presented to the Queen, your head should scrape the ground"). "Blue Blazer" seminars for boys omit the candlelight in favor of a clubroom atmosphere. At the Belk Tyler store in Rocky Mount, N.C., a White Gloves class, which opened in September, has been "a phenomenal success," according to Operations Manager Fred Combs. Says he: "Children are learning things they'd never learn at home...
...smell of airplane glue hangs heavy in the aisle of Woolworth's model department. There is everything here, from a 1979 Chevy Blazer (what kind of kid assembles these?) to a replica of the Flying White House, the Boeing 747 also known as the Doomsday Plane where the president will go to sit and watch his country incinerate. It is, the box promises, an exact duplicate of the model that sits at Fort Edwards...
...Coop's Britannica display is a "trail-blazer" for other permanent displays planned for bookstores of schools such as Dartmouth and the University of Chicago, Joseph B. Connors, New England branch manager of Britannica, said yesterday...
Approach first day's viewing with trepidation. Last soap opera seen was Senator Harrison Williams claiming innocence during breaks in the Abscam hearings. First scenes not reassuring: a short man in a blue blazer, with eyes that glint like brass buttons, is carrying through hideous plot. Details as thin as his hair, which is combed forward in little bangs. A sure sign of flabby moral fiber and questionable sexual orientation. Only precedent, either thespian or tonsorial, is Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur. What he did to Charlton Heston the fellow in the blue blazer is doing...
...Huntington Avenue, many imported cars were in evidence. As were many loafers from Gucci's. The brue blazer index had sky rocketed...