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...University community remains vague and undefined, though undoubtedly it will be an important one. The one thing which is definite is that the University-oriented individuals and groups will make their contribution as individuals and not as part of a total University effort which might further aggravate town-gown differences. As Sizer puts it, "We're not giving advice on the terms that we have the answers and they...
...made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...various times," the judge recalls, "the court has witnessed the collapse of a chair under the weight of a state trooper," while "the justice got the zipper on his gown caught in his tie and sat out an entire session thus involved, with the tie hanging out like the tongue of a Saint Bernard." The court, of course, had some serious cases, not the least of which involved a woman who complained violently about speeding on Mount Vernon Road. When state troopers finally set up a roadblock, "the lady who made all the fuss was herself picked up for unreasonable...
...undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassière is for?" As for the dresses, including a $383 red satin inaugural-ball gown introduced into evidence, the defense solemnly reminded the jury: "Shirley Stratton was the First Lady of Illinois...
Rome was something else again, and the "else" in translation read "glamour." From Forquet's flowing saris to De Barentzen's dirndl-skirted rain dress to Lancetti's denim and organdy evening gown, elegance was clearly the theme of the day. And of the night, too. thanks to Top Designer Princess Irene Galitzine, whose patio pajamas (patterned in mauve and pea-green poppies) and open-front, open-back nightgowns (layer-wrapped to conceal seams) stopped the show in Rome, but will only start it somewhere else...