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...looks like Jackie only in the sense that whatever fits the figure also fits the wife of the President of the U.S. It is Jackie's own ladykin, a dressmaker's dummy that has all of her dimensions. To this dummy, whenever the call comes through, flock busy seamstresses with costly fabrics and a sense of dedication and flair that is not often seen, say, at quilting bees. They fit and they pin, they cut and they stitch, and when they are all finished, the result gets its picture in the papers, filled out this time by Jackie...
...over into the Gilded Age the intellectual prestige which Horace Bushnell had lent to the Hartford ministry a generation before, Twichell sought the approval of his congregation through demonstrations of manliness, not of mind. He was a forceful speaker and an exuberant athlete, and whenever the males in his flock got together for smoking-room humor, Joe Twichell's hearty laugh rang loud and clear. Asylum Hill loved him, especially Mark Twain, who was Twichell's best friend for forty years...
...weekly staff meet ings held by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "I have no illusions about being Secretary of State." says Murrow. "I just want a chance to be heard in the area where we have to operate." Murrow has shaken up the bureaucracy of the agency, recruited a flock of bright young men as his assistants, beefed up coverage in Africa and Latin America. Attracted by Murrow's reforms, job applicants are running 50% ahead of the period before he took over...
Natex Chairman Lawrence Huntington Taylor, 48, a veteran Wall Street broker, believes that many of the nation's more than 50,000 unlisted stock companies will flock to the Natex in hopes of getting the publicity, ease of trading, and aura of stability afforded by listing. But on opening day the new exchange listed only eight issues, most of which carried in their corporate titles such alluring words as "automated," "missiles" or "electronics"-and six of which are selling below their original offering prices...
...early '50s, some British poets announced themselves as The Movement, a loose flock of low-flying larks (among them Donald Davie, Thorn Gunn, Kingsley Amis, John Wain) who sang in the same octave quietly. They favored a formal elegance, but at the same time retained the note of natural speech, the "neutral tone" of voice in which the British customarily discuss love, death and the weather...