Word: flannel
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...summers ago Perry Miller suggested that Madison Avenue be razed from 42nd to 57th Streets. This would eliminate most of the great advertising agencies, decimate the radio and television networks, and destroy the headquarters (at 44th Street) of the legendary Gray Flannel Suit...
...another time, in another place, the jittery man in the grey flannel, red-trimmed suit might have been carted off to the booby hatch. He jerked, jiggled, tugged at his cap. He scratched and spat. In front of 61,207 at Yankee Stadium, and 40 million more on TV, he shuddered through two hours of spasms. But no one who watched the Yankees and the Braves in the last game of the World Series last week worried about the sanity of Selva Lewis Burdette Jr., 30. Throwing a sneaky assortment of curves, sinkers and screwballs, he made last year...
...Good evening," said a dark girl in a black-and-white kimono. She had crept up quietly and she carried a small green order pad. There was only one other person in the resturant--a pudgy, bespectacled occidental in gray flannel, with a bright silk vest. I was seated in front...
Such a conflict is not visible in the effective supporting cast, however. Norman Field could not be better in a character part as the gray flannel son-in-law. He does a limited job perfectly. June Walker whines and hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts the right possessive touches into her acting of the hero's sister. Sylvia Davis and Ethel Britton handle comic roles well, even if the exaggeration is not always useful. One of them, as a cowlike neighbor, seems to emit, "I mean, what the hell" every minute...
...have come a long way, the PR man will tell you. We have come from Jesus Christ to James M. Hagerty in this, the gray flannel century. And business is not only good, but getting progressively better...