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...Bean, still the captain of the sportswear-catalog industry. Lands' End, launched in 1963 by Chairman Gary Comer, then a 36-year-old advertising copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago, sells moderately priced, well-made staples. Among them: oxford-cloth shirts ($19.50); cotton twill skirts ($32.50); and silk foulard ties ($19). One of the company's specialties is the many-pocketed canvas attache bag ($39.50), which for many people has replaced the formal, hard-sided briefcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chic Is in The Mail | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...saying a thing, serving my time," says Brown from a pay phone inside the minimum-security facility. Every day he rises at 5:15 to dish out breakfast in the cafeteria, wearing a cook's white uniform and cap, embellished by purple wraparound sunglasses and a matching purple foulard scarf. He directs the chapel choir, and attendance has doubled since he got there. On Saturdays, his wife Adrienne, a former hair stylist with the television show Solid Gold, brings a dryer and a bag of salon products to primp his curly coiffure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Brother No. 155413 | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

...clustered around the transistor radio are almost all outsize and beefy, wearing pea jackets and hard hats. One of them sports a silk foulard tucked into the front of his V-necked cardigan. A white Mercedes is parked near by, surrounded by less regal vehicles-Peugeots, Fiats, a few pickups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE,SOUTH KOREA: Truckers in Revolt | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...fighter plane flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German and Italian troops in western Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoodlums & History | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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