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After due consideration, the Custom Tailors Guild announced its annual selec tion of the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Top man (in public life): 82-year-old Bernard Baruch. The nine runners-up: Cleveland Indians General Manager Hank Greenberg, 41 (sports), Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 63 (industry), Band Leader Guy Lombardo, 50 (music), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 40 (society), Arthur Murray, 57 (dancing), Yul Brynner, 36 (stage), Robert Montgomery, 48 (radio-TV), Gene Kelly, 40 (screen), Paper Manufacturer Harry E. Gould, 54 (business...
According to Harvard custom, Stevenson and Roosevelt will continue roommates for the rest of their college careers...
From time immemorial it has been the custom, on those days, for the poor people of Benevento to hire out their sons, twelve years and up, to farmers seeking cheap labor. The children are brought to the Piazza del Duomo, where they wait while their parents bargain. The farmers take a look at the boys, sometimes test a muscle, go back to bargaining. For a promising boy they will pay the parents 6,000 lire (about $10) and a few bushels of wheat for a year's work. When the bargain is struck, the boy goes...
Making Hay. Many an editorial writer promptly tried to set Stevenson and Truman right on what a "one-party press" really is. Said the Scripps-Howard papers: "In the real sense, a 'one-party' press would publish only the views of one party . . . That is the custom in many other countries. But any modern American paper that followed that formula would soon be out of business. The people who buy and read expect the newspapers to report the news . . . President Truman has enjoyed boasting that he was elected in 1948 despite the opposition of newspapers, although...
...their last big service in Waterloo, Lawrence, as usual, led the congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...