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...companies are now loosening up on what their employees wear. Detroit's decorous J. L. Hudson Co. department store has begun allowing salesmen to wear sport coats instead of suits. Xerox insists on tonsorial tidiness, but it has permitted one of its California service technicians to affect a handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready for the Nehru jacket...
...fact, with his tweedy jackets and rust-tinted handlebar mustache, Broun is very much the lovable professor. As such, his lectures demand an attentive ear. While the copy of most sportscasters rarely rises above the conversational, his prose is styled after "the measured, galloping elegance of the 19th century sportswriters." As one fan told him: "I just like to close my eyes and listen...
...depriving him of that luxuriant handlebar mustache, the Air Force clearly owed Colonel Robin Olds, 45, a favor. But four stars? Yet there they were, stuck to his chair when he arrived at the Air Force Academy to take over as commandant of cadetsput there, it turned out, to represent the four Communist MIGs Robin had shot down over Viet Nam. As for that other fighter pilot's badge-the one the brass told him to polish off with a razor because cadets can't wear them -he may not have been the only one inconvenienced...
...R.A.F. Handlebars. A cautious, conservative hunter when he is in the air, Olds leads a three-squadron Phantom wing whose 60 planes have knocked out 22 of the 72 MIGs downed over North Viet Nam to date (v. 20 U.S. fighters lost in aerial combat). Tall and taut at 6 ft. 2 in. and 195 lbs., Olds weighs 10 lbs. less than he did as an All-America tackle on West Point's 1943 football team, has recently sprouted a chestnut R.A.F.-style handlebar mustache that horrified his wife, former Movie Actress Ella Raines, when she visited her husband...
William J. Lederer, co-author of "The Ugly American," is a man who likes to tell stories. He peppers his conversation with a frequent "That reminds me...," and puffing slowly on a handlebar pipe, he will tell you about China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, 20-odd years in the Navy, and--after a year as writer-in-residence at Kirkland House--a lot about Harvard...