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Kennedy may need a dip now and then, for by the end of the second week something new had been added to the boyish Kennedy look: a brow that wore deep furrows oftener than...
Fowler was always pleasantly known to his boss as "that young man from Denver." He remained young, or at least he retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by the Dakota Indians and telling her lady in waiting to "get rid of that damned thing." He remembered lean Eamon De Valera, clad in long underwear, donning huge boxing gloves and sparring with his bull-necked secretary in a sitting room of the old Waldorf. It sometimes seems that Fowler...
...Europe the most spectacular ski-jumping form now on view belongs to East Germany's handsome, boyish Helmut Recknagel, 23, a onetime machinist in a ball-bearing factory...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...
...overblouse. Skirts, which have been rising steadily, will be the shortest in years. Many dresses will be full in front, have slashed pockets for the casual look. Designers are going all out for the culotte (which Norman Norell made fashionable), this spring will present it in everything from boyish pant-skirts to evening dresses. The big coat has been slowly coming back, and Originala, one of the top U.S. coat houses, hopes to make its capelike coat the trend this spring...