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Since the Garden of Eden, Eve's descendants have covered themselves sensibly and attractively only twice-with the Greek chiton 2,000 years ago and, in the late '50s, with the designs of Balenciaga. Now in their "liberated" period, women seem more eager than ever to become enslaved to the follies and fads of the fops of fashion...
...Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...
...life of Preston Sturges might read as dizzily as one of his own comedies if it were not, in essence, so intensely bitter. On his first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
Wearing a blue woolen chiton, black stockings, classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...
...dollar of 1840, an unknown model posed for Artist Christian Gobrecht, seated on a rock, wearing a Greek chiton, a staff in her left hand, a U.S. shield in her right...