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...faithful never strayed -men like G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Arthur Schlesinger and Bobby Short, who made the bow tie their individual badge regardless of the moment's fashion. Now they have plenty of company. The bow tie is once again popular, and not only among middle-aged fellows who are trying to recapture the campus spirit of the 1930s...
Stores across the country report a strong demand for bows from customers of all ages and varied stations. At times this summer in the display cases of Chicago's Frank Bros, store there were no long ties at all. Early last year, the bow accounted for less than 1% of tie sales nationwide; now the figure is between 8% and 10%, and growing...
...bow has always had a strange versatility-conveying a certain jauntiness for otherwise staid professors, say, while bespeaking formality in evening clothes. That split image still exists...
Nightclub Entertainer Short says that the bow gives him a "classic and nifty" look. Lawyer Cox changes his bow for a four-in-hand when he argues a case because he thinks that the bow makes him appear frivolous...
...historian who deplores the "thinner life of things," Boorstin seems spare in his appraisal of the life of the spirit during the past century. His one bow to it is a somewhat ingenuous section on the American missionary impulse and what he calls "Samaritan diplomacy," though he does allude to the cultural imperialism that has often accompanied missionaries. He limits his discussion of America's inexorable technology to vignettes about the atomic bomb and the space race. His assay of the century's "democratic experience" does not include any mention of the fate of the American Indian...