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...since John Kennedy posed boldly in a two-button coat, defying decades of three-button tradition, has a suit of clothes gained such worldwide attention as the blue-and-gray glen plaid outfit that Ronald Reagan wore to Europe...
...suit, believe it or not, became a subject at last week's White House issues luncheon held by Reagan with his principal aides. Normal fare for that august assemblage is the federal budget with a sprinkling of SALT II. Just how the glen plaid came up is not clear. But Reagan was heard to proclaim, "I like that suit." Whereupon he explained that months ago he had cautiously worn the suit to test how it photographed. "It only could have looked good in stills," joked one aide. No, the President replied, he thought it went well on television...
Reagan's glen plaid has good lineage. The fabric was manufactured by the British firm of Illingworth, Morris & Co. Ltd., which also furnishes the interiors of Rolls-Royce autos, the Pope's vestments and the covers for the tennis balls used at Wimbledon. White House Aide Morgan Mason (son of Actor James Mason) used to be executive director of Illingworth, Morris, and when Friend Nancy Reagan wanted some new suiting for her husband, Mason hustled over some swatches from which the glen plaid was chosen...
...only blemish to an otherwise perfect afternoon came in the final doubles match when Beckman and Rob Wheeler felt in a lackadaisacal endeavor 6-2, 2-6,1-6. As to be expected Harvard undefeated doubles team of sands and Beren blew away Dartmouth's Stein and Glen French...
...understand it only snows here about once every ten years, and when it does these students go wild," said Glen Gerrett, Georgia's Food Service Director. During the sledding festival, Athens police had to break up a crowd of some 500 students whose snowball fights were disrupting traffic through the campus...