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...hasn't collected news clipplugs, though, since last year, when his Adams House maid accidentally threw out his entire set of notices. Medals, he keeps, carefully folded in strips of gray flannel. They fill up three or four small boxes. No meet is too small for him in the off season. Last summer, after placing second in the Nationals, he went down to Manchester, Connecticut and won the hammer throw at Tinty's Flying Ranch track and field meet...
Next day Ike put on a double-breasted grey flannel suit and strode around the corner to the Faculty Club to meet the press. First, there was a question of protocol. No, don't call him president, he said; he wouldn't actually take over as president of Columbia until June 7. Congress had made him a general for life, Ike added, but just call him mister. ("Nobody has so far. Maybe it doesn...
...meadows of Graves's obscurity are hedged round with a thorny but exhibitionist defense. He masks his face with bangs and a beard, and wears expensive grey flannel suits under an overcoat shabby enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
...monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
...last fortnight) to either Jews or Arabs in Palestine. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha, who had to stay in bed with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam Pasha told a TIME correspondent: "When you are living among rogues and they are going to cut your throat, you will find a revolver somewhere. You'll buy it or steal...