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Barrel shaped "Sandy" Calder with his white hair set off against a bright red flannel shirt and blue jeans, grunted directions in a good humored way, as a crew of students festooned the large gallery in Robinson Hall with his unusual sculpture. When everything was finally in place, Calder thanked his helpers individually and then disappeared with friends, leaving a small group still gaping at the wonderland before their eyes...
...only row as the Cambridge crew, we live as the crew: clad in light blue from dawn until dusk. We wear old flannel bag pants and padded blazers during the day and dress for dinner. Studs are standard equipment. Special light blue blazers and white flannels complete the evening habit...
Part of the failure to woo the commuter to his Center is the continuing shortage of attractive and needed features. Putting a big flannel patch on a hole in a pair of blue jeans won't make them suit pants, and the stop gap measures at Dudley have not transformed it into a house. The complaints range from criticism of the grimy looking walls to condemnation of the entire Center as inadequate. The furniture just inside the front door is a collection of multi-colored leather chairs placed about a large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find...
...Although Brubeck may be one of the best-known jazz pianists among a pseudo-sophisticated, flannel-clad collegiate set, he is far from the best of the modernists. Compared with the sublime simplicity of a Chet Baker or an Oscar Peterson, Brubeck's pretentious key-switching and borrowing of classical themes is a bit affected...
...about Debbie's next picture for Paramount Studios, which is a thriller-diller, but I've lost my notes and I can't remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely tailored grey flannel dress, which fit like a soaking-wet nightgown. The lady from RKO lent me her hanky so I could wipe my chin and introduced me. Ripping out my pen, I made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then asked her if I could have a few minutes...