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Generation of Models. But the country's extraordinary postwar recovery resuscitated the German girl. Says Marlies Hessel, a former Miss Germany: "Very few girls seem to grow up to be ugly any more. Ugliness is something that is bred by adversity. Perhaps beauty is flowering now because we have weathered something very close to hell...
...Well-Bred Intentions. Though they come in the most radiant of colors and the lushest of fabrics, range in length from wrist-short to shoulder-high and in price from $1 (nylon) to $145 (mink-cuffed French glace kid), the richest selection is scarcely splendid enough to make up for the bother. For one thing, women determined to look smart but who feel ill at ease with their hands encased will strip their gloves off at the earliest opportunity and spend the rest of the party looking for a ledge to lodge the gloves on; they generally end up wadding...
Some women do not bother to wear gloves at all, merely keep them in hand, and make the rounds clasping the evidence of their well-bred intentions like a badge. After several such wearings, most gloves begin to go limp, soon acquire wrinkles and creases no cleaner can cure. One Way Out. But, astonishingly enough, there is hardly a woman who would be caught dead without gloves. Why? Largely because of etiquette. Even as "bold" and "modern" a social arbiter as Amy Vanderbilt, who last year went so far as to sometimes permit picking up chicken bones by hand...
Only a week before, Bill McCurdy's Crimson runners had demolished Princeton on its home ground by a 95-54 count. So when they take on the Elis in Soldiers Field tomorrow (starting time 1 p.m.), only the competitive spirit bred by tradition is likely to keep the margin slim...
...until Shoemaker switched horses Hill Rise was only a co-favorite to win the Derby, with Northern Dancer, owned by Canadian Beer Baron E. P. Taylor, and ridden by-guess who?-Willie Shoemaker. The richest Canadian-bred race horse in history, with $261,365 already in the till, Northern Dancer won this month's 1½-mile Florida Derby handily enough to wow the chart callers. But if Shoemaker never said it in so many words, he hinted that the 1½-mile Kentucky Derby might be more than Northern Dancer could handle. "I like Northern Dancer...