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...suits don't look well on ordinary Russians," conceded Vasily Popkov, chief of the garment industry's Central Clothing Institute, "because they are tailored for Apollo. Our designers conceive of the customer in just two dimensions-height and chest width-and assume that for their other measurements all their customers will be proportioned exactly as Apollo." But far from being Apollos, Russians tend to be short and broad, and if anything getting broader. Moscow University's anthropology department, said Popkov, has just finished a survey which shows that only 43% of all Soviet citizens could...
...textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments...
...about the buyers in department stores, in grocery stores? 'Buy one case of my product and you get one free. You buy my blue jeans and I'll remember you at Christmastime.' Is this not payola? Have there not been accusations of this sort in the garment industry, in any number of international unions? Payola in one form or another is a part of American business ... I say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
...creation of New York's "Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama...
...just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and semantic differences; or you'll remind each other that you have no identities yet, and speculate about Our Generation. Pull off each garment covering your souls, but don't worry, you can't escape the cliche. It's Saturday night, gentlemen, and I'm staying home to study...