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...Bulldogging remains the popular layman's term, but modern rodeo cowboys prefer to call it steer wrestling; it is one of five standard events of the professional rodeo. Others: calf roping, bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle bronc riding...
...reader of Vogue or Mademoiselle could have told Paris that other "In" notions for fall are: jerkins, jumpers and tunics; boots (chukka-short, mid-calf height or higher, mostly in fake fur and leather); tights and tight pants; turtlenecks (on practically anything except a turtle); schoolboy suits, tarns and caps; and, for a campus fillip, men's bow ties worn as hair bands...
Armour regularly shipped barrels of calf thymuses ("neck sweetbreads") to Szent-Gyorgyi in Woods Hole. His rooms atop the Marine Biological Laboratory building on Main Street began to overflow with centrifuges used to extract submicroscopic quantities of promine and retine. More recently, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi and his colleagues, Dr. Andrew Hegyeli and Jane A. McLaughlin, have found a cheaper and more abundant source: human urine. So, at nearby Otis Air Force Base, six latrines have special urinals, which yield from 60 to 100 liters a day for Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi's research...
...swim. For summer suits and sport coats, however, we recommend them highly. You will find their suits in poplin ($45) and dacron/wool ($85) stocked in a complete range of sizes. Brightly colored dacron/cotton bermudas go at $10, and for the more staid, they carry British linen walking shorts ($18). Calf suede desert boots, also from England ($15), are comfortable and popular...
Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...