Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only time will tell whether the rugby club's acquiescence to official standards of dress is a temporary break with tradition or a reflection of a new seriousness about the sport...
...bachelor who sports what he calls a "Renaissance beard," Capraro has spent many hours with the Fords. During one White House visit, he was with the President for nearly 20 minutes as Ford approvingly fingered some dresses Capraro had brought for Mrs. Ford and Susan. Eying a halter dress with a plunging neckline for Susan, the President jokingly asked: "Don't you think that's a bit risque?" But, says Capraro, the President never asked about prices...
Since word about Capraro's latest customer spread, business has picked up nicely for his firm, Jerry Guttenberg, Ltd.* The publicity is likely to continue. After trying on dress after dress in his Manhattan showroom last month, Susan Ford whirled around and sighed: "Oh, Albert. When I get married, you will design my wedding dress...
...Iran, Venezuela and Algeria to represent OPEC at a preliminary meeting in Paris on April 7. They will sit down with representatives of the U.S., Japan and the Common Market countries, along with delegates from Brazil, India and Zaire. The April meeting will lay the groundwork for a full-dress conference between oil producers, industrial nations and Third World countries later...
...writer." Assuming that his readers had no interest in reading about his writers, Ross kept intramural gossip out of his magazine, and so has his successor William Shawn. Yet neither editor could stem the tide of moonlight memoirs by New Yorker staffers. James Thurber gave Ross himself a full-dress treatment in The Years with Ross (1959). Now, on the magazine's 50th birthday this week, comes Brendan Gill's account of his nearly 40 years with everybody at The New Yorker...