Word: collar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Massachusetts become strikingly evident. Some 68 per cent of the fathers of students currently attending UMass never attended college; only 15.9 per cent of the fathers of Harvard '62 did not go to college. Over 42 per cent of UMass students's fathers work at "blue collar" jobs, but for Harvard the figure is only 8.2 per cent. Shannon McCune, Provost of the University of Massachusetts, estimates that fully 80 per cent of his students are lower- to middle-middle class...
North by Northwest. Director Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but entertaining mystery, with Gary Grant as a Madison Avenue adman up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
...Angeles the Smart Sixteen set is buying blankets for a sew-it-yourself skirt and blazer set. Most popular are clothes adorned with raccoon. Says Angela Kroll, buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue: "We can sell anything with raccoon." Best & Co. is doing a big business in detachable raccoon collars ($10.95 for a 14-in. Peter Pan collar, $15.95 for a 31 -in. shawl collar), and Chicago teen-agers are buying up sailor hats topped with raccoon pompons...
North by Northwest. Director Alfred Hitchcock's implausible, entertaining mystery, with Gary Grant as a Madison Avenue adman up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
Armstrong by Request (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...