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...picture caption read: PRIESTS IN SHORTS. The photograph showed two Episcopal clergymen in Northfield, Minn. last week for the national convention of Episcopal Young Churchmen-standing about coolly in Bermuda shorts. The picture pulled a flurry of mail from: 1) Episcopalians who objected to men of the cloth baring their knees; 2) more Roman Catholics who resented the application of the title "priests" to Protestants...
First, before he takes one of his rides, he gets a thorough physical examination, including electrocardiogram and X rays. Then, well before blastoff, he begins his preparations for the run. The Fiberglas shell of his helmet is lowered over his head and its cloth neck-shirt zipped shut. Then he wriggles into a blue wool flight suit, puts on thin leather flying gloves and climbs into his seat...
...police battered at the main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
Paso de la Muerte. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Pickpocket Adolfo Ramírez proudly told police he wished he could patent his new pilfering technique of spreading a sample of cloth over his right arm while posing as a piece-goods salesman, then distracting his victims' attention with left-handed gestures while his right hand explored their pockets...
Dull the Shine. Often Du Pont does not even have time to make finished drawings, but has the bolts of cloth he orders cut and sewn from work sketches. He has two days to gather material, suits, dresses, underwear, stockings, shoes, brassières, furs and jewelry for everybody in the show from principals to walk-ons. It is the last-minute scramble that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there...