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Last week the university's sartorial rebels were sharply summoned into line by a new handbook that spells out once and for all the color and cut of the proper Oxonian's robe. Compilers of the authentic landbook: meticulous Ralph E. Clifford, lead clerk in the University Registry, and elegant Dennis R. Venables, co-proprietor of one Oxford tailor shop and Dartner in another...
...choose patterns and shades for each degree, Clifford and Venables spent a year poking through ancient records and sifting the lore of tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
...four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery. For, announced Burgess, his name is neither Rampa nor Kuan Suo but plain Cyril Henry Hoskin, and he is the son of a Devon plumber...
Also pressured to act last week was New Jersey s Republican Senator Clifford Case whose commuter constituents are taxed not only by New York but by Delaware and Philadelphia as well. Case introduced a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to prevent any state or local government from taxing nonresidents. His proposal also plugged by Rhode Island's Governor Dennis J. Roberts, whose constituents are taxed by Massachusetts, has very little chance. Even if it should get by the Senate Judiciary Committee, an amendment would need ratification by 36 states, and about a dozen are already taxing nonresidents...
Sweet Smell of Success. Scriptwriters Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman go fishing with a fine line of gab in the moral sewer-the pipeline of a well-known gossip columnist-that runs under Broadway (TIME, June...