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There is doubt that the length of scarves, per se, is the only reason for the fad. Foresighted students see in them a return to primitive modes of dress. If a gradual broadening accompanies lengthening, scarves could become sort of northern hemisphere sarong (with appropriate college colors). As they are, the scarves could replace conventional hardware in summer and winter, done up like Far East turbans...
...micros are the latest fad in auto racing, an ever-growing sport that drew an estimated 23 million spectators last year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own auto-repair shop at El Centro, Calif. Swarthout promptly built the first one in the Imperial Valley. Since then, micro-midget racing has spread as far east as Pennsylvania. Reason for the popularity of the micros: they can be built for as little...
Open & Shut. Not everything that is new in the kitchen meets with unanimous approval. One fad against which many housewives rebel is the "open" kitchen, separated from living, dining or utility rooms by just a serving counter, bar or room divider. Such kitchens not only make privacy impossible, but often fill the house with smells and smoke...
Liner is Hume Probyne, a gentleman steeped in the genteel tradition. ("It had been a better world when John was John or Jack, he ruminated. If this fad for men's names in 'y' or 'ie' was not a sign of decay, it was, he thought, proof that male infancy was being prolonged.") They meet when Hume is sent to New York on a family mission: to pry his nephew from Rose, who is presumed to be using her assets to earn Main Line dividends. Since she is really trying to dissolve the partnership, Hume...
...copy the Queen, Britain's jewelers, long pinched by heavy excise tax (now 75%), are enjoying a new flush of prosperity. Sales of London's Cohn & Rosenberger. Ltd., one of Britain's largest earring manufacturers, have soared about 400% this year. So widespread is the earring fad that in Birmingham, center of the trade, some factories have fallen nine months behind demand, and one has stopped making everything else to catch...