Word: do-it-yourself
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...much after their own independent fashion. Most of the top Republicans who control the Campaign Committees are men who rose to power on their own efforts during the long Democratic years when the Republican National Committee could give them little or no help. They have maintained themselves in office by do-it-yourself methods, and they feel little allegiance to the National Committee or to Leonard Hall...
There is a notable trend this year toward ecclesiastical do-it-yourself. "Save up to 50%," J. Theodore Cuthbertson Inc. urges readers of Episcopal and Presbyterian magazines, "on Finest Quality Church Vestments with Ready-to-Sew Cut-Out Kits." Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity-only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50. Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience...
After grappling with two ghostwriters on the issue of how memorable her memoirs should be (TIME, Oct. 17), the Duchess of Windsor joined the dwindling list of do-it-yourself autobiographers, sailed for Paris to take pen in hand, "starting from scratch," in tracing her own rise from Baltimore. Her new title for the yarn, slated to begin serialization in McCall's magazine next March: The Heart Has Its Reasons...
Do-It-Yourself Kit. The Dental Soci ety has spent -$150,000 gathering dossiers on 137 labs which, it estimates, have done a $9,000,000 annual business. This year it won an injunction in Superior Court, for bidding 19 of the labs to take impressions or do major repairs except under the supervision of a dentist. In the Illinois Supreme Court last week, lawyers argued the case on appeal. The defendants contended that the law would force them out of business and thus unconstitutionally deprive them of their means of livelihood...
...city more than its share of bootleg dental dealers in local trade; it is also home to virtually all the mail-order business. This undertakes to supply false teeth by copying old dentures mailed in, or-stranger still-by using impressions made by the victim at home with a do-it-yourself...