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...Government cutbacks, has increased and thus the increase in black-tie events," explains Waldorf Catering Director Lawrence Harvey. "In my set," says New York City Socialite Mrs. Thayer Gilpatric, "the tuxedo never went out." A century ago, however, the tuxedo almost got kicked out of Gilpatric's set. Griswold Lorillard -- scion, as social columnists would put it, of the tobacco Lorillards -- showed up in the rarefied regions of the country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells...
...long after Griswold's entrance, tuxedoes became socially acceptable. By the turn of the century, tailors were producing tuxes as blithely as they turned cuffs; the rage became the rule. The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations. Movie stars such as Gary Cooper, William Powell, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire burnished the national formal-fashion ideal. Cooper looked as cool in a dinner jacket as he did in jeans...
Dean of the Law School for 21 years, Griswold has argued more cases in the Supreme Court than any other living...
...symposium called, "Challenges to Legal Education," Erwin Griswold, Langdell Professor of Law Emeritus, James Vorenberg '48, dean of the Law School, and Albert Sacks, Dane Professor of Law, and two other law professors suggested different recommendations for making curricula less theoretical...
...Much of the legal writing is theoretical and not practical, and it is not able to be comprehended by a person of average intelligence," said Griswold, former dean at the Law School. Such an approach ignores the mission to train professionals with practical concerns, he said. Law professors are often mired in theoretical concerns and give little practical guidance to their students, the bulk of whom will be practicing lawyers, he said...