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One of the hottest issues around only two years ago, the bitter, all-but-forgotten TFX controversy, surfaced in a new form last week. What the fracas had boiled down to was that the U.S.
Died. Bessie Love Merryman, 100, the Duchess of Windsor's dowager aunt and her constant chaperone throughout the royal courtship, a hard-boiled Yankee who advised Edward in the midst of his dilemma between Cupid and crown, "You can always marry someone else; you can never again be King...
A particularly warm sweater this year is "boiled wool," in which a large sweater is preshrunk to wearable size, increasing the density of the material in the process.
Sir: As a profession, housewifery may be noble as hell, but as a day to day occurrence, it is rather vapid. Like death and taxes, it should largely be regarded as regrettable and ignored when possible. Simpering over boiled pudding is neither professional nor noble.
Long before Poet T. S. Eliot expounded his theory of the "auditory imagination," Pioneer Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins used pocket poetry to make "Phoebe Snow" glamorize passenger service on the coal-burning Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Slogans nearly always overload the language and often debase it ("cof-fee-er coffee...