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...antecedents), Gene Tunney, Charles Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal wearers of the No. 1 Sack Coat this was not only unmentionable, it was unthinkable...
...instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place...
Britain's Tories got a horrid preview of Doomsday when the Labor Government moved to nationalize the Bank of England. Last week, as the nationalization bill was introduced into the House of Commons, Doomsday turned out to have a sterling silver lining...
Last week a heartening number and variety of people dared to look directly at the atom's horrid glare. Rose-tinted goggles were still preferred, but at least the world was no longer hiding its head in the atomized dirt of New Mexico and Hiroshima...
...doctors of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were having more than their share of trouble. Young Joseph Lister, disciple of France's Louis Pasteur, was not only filling their ears with chatter about invisible somethings called "germs," he was also filling their stately hospital with the horrid stench of carbolic acid-a so-called "antiseptic," used hitherto for cleansing the Glasgow sewers...