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Harvard men won't be at all surprised when their dates' formals are made of tulle or organdy net, but they'll have to get accustomed to seeing denim and quilted cotton evening dresses now. The widespread use of quilted fabrics initiated last fall, will continue throughout the summer season...
Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
...famed old Pepperell Manufacturing Co. mailed out a $1.25 first-quarter dividend to its 5,600 stockholders last week, it joined the select group of U.S. companies which have paid a dividend every year for a century. Moreover, with all four of its textile weaving mills (sheets, blankets, denim, etc.) booked solid, and with a tidy $4,000,000 profit on fiscal 1950's sales of $66 million, Chairman William Amory, 81, could report that Pepperell's future looked as promising as its past...
...Vermont neighbors take no special notice of the heavy-set man with the big head of unkempt white hair. Occasionally they meet him on a back-country road, trudging along with an oddly catlike grace, wearing an old blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. They recognize the heavy, big-knuckled hand shaped to axhelve and pitchfork, the heavy shoulders hunched to the swing of a scythe. Vermonters find nothing outlandish or alarming about Robert Frost...
...meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking to denim-clad strawberry farmers...