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...some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey-flannel-suit area," i.e., Connecticut's commuter country. "Hell," explained McGinnis, "for another nickel you might as well make a thing look good...
...president of the New York Stock Exchange, the citadel of American capitalism, is a happily extraverted man in a grey (or sometimes blue) flannel suit who seems little different from the hundreds of other commuters who ride the 8:09 (or sometimes the 8:17) from Greenwich, Con., to Manhattan every weekday. But George Keith Funston is a man with a mission; he wants to make every American a capitalist. His method: persuade every American who can afford it to buy stock in: corporations, thus share in the amazing yet steady growth of the American economy...
Unshaven faces, dirty tieless shirts under the gray flannel, threadbare socks in the white bucks--these attested to the intensity with which the latest American expatriates were trying to emulate the native students. But somehow, the Germans' long uncut hair, their coarse black sweaters and corduroy trousers, marked them alone as the true torchbearers of the new Enlightenment...
Swindled freshmen said the pair were very smooth speakers, and seemed "typical seniors." One was dressed in Ivy League clothing, a tweed jacket with gray flannel pants, while the other wore a gaberdine suit. They both had slight Boston accents...
...treatment of organic evolution. Beginning with a history of evolutionary thought, Professor Romer proceeds to the genetic background of the subject, the work of Darwin, and finally a detailed explanation of how a fish got to be an ape, and how an ape got to wear tweed jackets and flannel pants...