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...dark secret. But Christian Dior's Marc Bohan sent a little black dress down the runway at last summer's Paris collections that not only acknowledged the bosom but exposed it almost entirely. American buyers looked at the peep show cautiously, concluded it was a gag, not a trend. They were wrong. Women saw in the new decolletage the surest way to a man's eye and promptly began pulling the dresses off the racks. January's Paris collections took a deep breath and plunged to deep C level. The bosom is not only...
Most states use convict labor to make their license plates, and now and then car owners around the country still unwrap their new tags to find the penciled gag: "Help! I am being held here against my will...
Could he come over? He could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
...when Carry Nation visited Austin to smash up a saloon near the University of Texas. Warning his lads not to "cheer this poor deluded woman," President William L. Prather begged them to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." In barely two years, the resulting gag song (to I've Been Working on the Railroad) was sufficiently solemnized to be sung at Prather's funeral...
Down with Committees. One of the last remaining U.S. businessmen to head a huge company that carries his family name, "H. W." Hoover is unique and outspoken in many ways. He abhors management by committee; on his desk is a picture of a camel and the familiar gag caption that it is a horse designed by a committee. He insists that his executives stay out of the stock market (says Hoover: "If they're absorbed in gaining wealth, they're not giving their best thinking to the company"). He forbids corporate borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations...