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...newest sartorial hint on ski garb comes from the sports pages of a national womens' magazine, which tells the saga of Mrs. X., a homebody who whips up her own ski clothes. Mrs. X. combs department store counters for bolts of bizarrely-colored and woven fabrics, waterproofs them by browing them in a potion of wax, and tailors her trousers to size...
...Berg will string along with the same five that has racked up six wins as against one loss thus far while jayvee mentor Hay Kopp must find replacements for forwards John Altrocchi and Bill Mobrasten, who donned varsity garb this week. In yesterday's scrimmage with the Freshmen, he experimented with John Goldsmith and Dave McGiffert...
...Century also disapproved of the chaplaincy in the armed services. The clergy should serve as chaplains but "be paid by the church, wear a uniform or garb distinctive of the church, accept no military rank and, beyond their civilian patriotism, own no allegiance save that to which they are solemnly committed in their ordination vows...
...cannot be denied that a generic resemblance to "Going My Way" exists. Both Fitzgerald and Crosby have abandoned priestly robes for the simple garb of small-town doctors, but the relationship between the two remains roughly the same, progressing from initial distrust on Fitzgerald's part and disinterestedness on Crosby's to something approaching mutual adulation. To take another example, in "Going My Way" a big project was a foot to build a church for the old priest; in "Welcome Stranger," it's a hospital...
These, who might have come straight from the vicar's garden party or a charity bazaar, wore the rapt expression of idolaters as their hero spoke. Behind them and around them stood the thousands of the crowd-the voting public. They wore the garb and they had the faces of the working class; they came from the motorcar factories of Cowley, near Oxford, from the shops of Banbury, from the farms of Oxfordshire...