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For example. A few weeks ago, we noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Fashions Veer Yet Closer to Edward VII; Distinctive Ectomorph Holds Style Spotlight As Male Goes Stringbean | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

During the night an operator at Mobile's Radio Station WKRG picked up what he thought was an S O S message, possibly from a hand-cranked "Gibson Girl" transmitter of the type used on life rafts. As a great sea-air search got underway the next morning, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Silence from the Gulf | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

"You get the new carrot look," said Gimbels, by wearing big collars, rounded jackets, yoked shawls, standaway necklines and stoles. You get the carrot look by wearing slim, clinging skirts. If you will insist on full skirts, for reasons aesthetical or anatomical, you shoo the fullness to the rear and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Carrot Look | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

On May 18, 1951, 47 U.N. member nations solemnly agreed to prohibit the export of strategic materials to Chinese mainland ports. The catch is in the meaning of "strategic." The U.S. regards all materials shipped to China as useful to the enemy, and therefore strategic; others, still clinging to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLOCKADE: Oil for the Jets of China | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Peter Pan | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

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