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Before leaving, Sert announced that Walter Bogner will be acting chairman of the Department of Architecture until next September...
Schiaparelli of the stretch pants is snowy-haired Maria Bogner, 47, stunning wife of former German Olympic Ski Star Willy Bogner. In 1950, after Bogner's release as a prisoner of war (he had been an SS lieutenant), Willy and Maria bought a small factory just south of Munich, started making and selling sportswear. One day a salesman arrived with a bolt of a Swiss-patented kink-nylon and wool-yarn fabric called Helanca. It stretched up, down and sideways, then sprang miraculously back into shape. Maria ordered some and set about turning it into ski pants. Still svelte...
...Bogner pants are not cheap (prices run from about $50 to $60), and there are many cheaper imitations. But for every snow bunny from Squaw Valley to Stowe, a pair of Bogners is the basic status symbol. And Willy Bogner finds U.S. girls the best advertisement his stretch pants could have. Says he: "They are trimmer, you know. American girls are built like pears. European girls are like apples...
Despite Willy Bogner's generous views, not all U.S. girls are pear-shaped, and many an Ample Annie has packed herself into stretch pants only to find that she is courting disaster at every turn. Gasps one: "Every time I climb into my pants I have the feeling that somewhere the stretch is going to give; I'm afraid to sit down, and I just walk around like a mechanical soldier. The fellows don't realize that Bogners are really gigantic girdles. Last week I was dancing with a Dartmouth senior who kept ogling this blonde...
...Bogner feels, however, that at the present time, Memorial Hall, "because of its dilapitated condition, is of no service and occupies land which is far too precious to be wasted." He added that "It would seem appropriate that the University offer the land to a new use and a new structure which might become a more fitting memorial to Harvard's role in the Civil...