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...breasted, double-breasted, belted in back, on the sides, all the way around or not at all, spill off the racks in solid colors, stars, stripes, prints, polka dots and patterns. This year's favorite is flowers: from A for aster to Z for zinnia, they make a coat a serenade to spring; its wearer becomes a veritable walking garden. All make superb between-season coats, but then there is this little problem: not one is waterproof...
Defying the Storm. Few manufacturers bother to make such a claim. The majority of coats are clearly labeled "water resistant"-a phrase which, in translation, means: "This garment will fight the good fight in a storm, but only for a few minutes, after which the purchaser is on her own." Others, like the college girl's trusty trenchcoat, promise to hold out, but only until the first cleaning, when they must be reconditioned (at an average charge of $2, in addition to the cost of the cleaning itself). And many a veritable walking garden has come...
...cigarette machine in the Eliot House coat room, which had required persistent servicing and which no longer took nickels, was replaced late last week in apparent disregard of a ruling by L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, that machines which break down will not be repaired or replaced...
...exit in Broadway's new musical, Funny Girl. In the moment's pause before she disappears as quickly as she came, she leaves an image in the eye-of a carelessly stacked girl with a long nose and bones awry, wearing a lumpy brown leopard-trimmed coat and looking like the star of nothing. But there is something in her clear, elliptical gaze that is beyond resistance. It invites too much sympathy to be as aggressive as it seems. People watching it can almost hear the last few ticks before Barbra Streisand explodes...
...people wear their hair like Barbra Streisand and display a glassy, communicant look when they see her, for she is a godhead in their most privately inarticulate reveries. Others who stop her are just impious strangers. They see her tasseled yellow blouse showing through under a South American skunk coat, her white wool slacks and dirty sneakers, her induplicable face, and they say, "Hey, you look like Barbra Streisand...