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...Hitchcock dream of subterfuge and suspicion. In back streets, darkly mysterious houses lurk behind high wire fences suggestive of darker and more mysterious doings within. Newsmen recently counted 27 separate agencies of Western intelligence known to be at work in Berlin. Their operatives-some fashionably clothed in the grey flannel of New York's Madison Avenue, some with armpit holsters bulging under blue serge-report to different headquarters, and rarely know what their colleagues...
...young debonair who is stepping out for a summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
...from saintly. Born in Strasbourg in 1858 to a rich, aristocratic family, young Foucauld awed his classmates at St. Cyr and at cavalry school with his man-of-the-worldly ways. Wrote future General Victor d'Urbal: "Anyone who has not seen Foucauld in his room, in white flannel pajamas, comfortably ensconced on a chaise longue or a fine armchair, eating delicious foie gras washed down with an excellent cham pagne, reading Aristophanes in a de luxe edition . . . cannot form a proper idea of a man who knows how to enjoy life...
With no warning at all, one of Manhattan's biggest ad agencies last week hung up its grey flannel suit, wrapped the draperies of its couch about it and lay down to pleasant dreams. Milton H. Biow, 63-year-old founder, chairman and president of Biow Co., Inc., announced that he would liquidate the company at the end of June. His explanation: "After 40 years of intensive application, I feel that I can now pursue other interests...
Sloan Wilson '42, author of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," will discuss the question, "Is there a Crisis in American Education?" at a meeting of the Ford Hall Forum in Jordan Hall in Boston tomorrow...