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...great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave." For it is hard to resist tailors whose purpose, avows Gerald Abrahams, chairman of the British Men's Wear Guild, is to "make you look stronger and slimmer and younger and richer...
...Manor. Headed by Bass Player Charlie Mingus and Drummer Max Roach, the rebels played right through the riotous weekend, drew 750 people on Sunday night, grossed $4,700. With the encouragement of Louis Lorillard's divorced wife Elaine, they made plans to form their own Jazz Artists' Guild, and to sell tapes of their concerts, which eventually may appear on four LPs under the title Rebellion at Newport. The cool rebels, including such top modern jazzmen as Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones, Ornette Coleman and Coleman Hawkins, hope to appear at Manhattan's Village Gate, tour the country...
...fund. The bishop's share, now about $30,000 a year, is used for emergencies, such as helping rebuild St. Paul's Church in Chicago's South Side when it was destroyed by arsonists. The parish share is used for church-building improvement, the altar guild, etc. Pennies are clinking in faster than ever these days. While the first million took 27 years to collect, at the current rate it should take about 14 years to raise the second million...
...Humpty Dumpty that plummets in this virtually guaranteed bestseller (Literary Guild selection for June; movie rights sold to Gary Cooper for $85,000) is Trumpet, a magazine suspiciously li late Collier's, on which Theodore White served as a senior writer. Unfortunately...
Shakedown. The Corktown Guild and the Co-op are not the only instances of Holy Trinity help and selfhelp. There is a "foot clinic" run by Chiropodist Earl G. Kaplan in his spare time, a dental clinic operated by volunteers from the Detroit Society of Dental Hygienists, a legal clinic manned by top lawyers. There is a Filipino Club, a Puerto Rican Club, a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (membership: 1,000), a St. Vincent de Paul Society, a credit union that started with $80 in 1947, now has assets of $147,000; there is even a two-night-a-week...