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...like the shape of things. In The Conservative Mind (TIME, July 6, 1953), he made it plain that American conservatives had found a gifted and sorely needed spokesman. He is young (37), he can write hardhitting prose, he is not ashamed to range himself on the side of God, custom and character, and he believes strongly in such old-fashioned virtues as duty and responsibility. His book of essays, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, ranges in subject matter from censorship to the ugliness of British welfare-state housing, but it has a sense of unity nevertheless. Kirk has a line...
...were disappointed with the conference's final results. They had hoped that the seminar on geriatric medicine would make a flat recommendation that medical schools set up professorships in geriatrics, thus help their branch of medicine to become a distinct and recognized specialty. But the dead hand of custom-plus the legitimate arguments of some experts anxious not to isolate treatment of the aged from general medicine-denied them this prize. Instead, they won a recommendation that medical schools give "more emphasis" to gerontology and geriatrics. Nowhere in the country is there a chair of geriatrics, or any course...
Chief objection of the women customers is the industry's topsy-turvy custom of offering June's clothes in January...
Here and there, however, signs cropped up last week that the customer criticisms were having some effect. Three top bathing-suit makers-Cole of California, Jantzen, Rose Marie Reid-reported that some New York stores had agreed to carry a complete line of swim suits to Aug. I instead of closing out after July 4. On the Fourth, Bergdorf defied usual custom, boldly featured several window displays of bathing suits...
...toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...