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...Meaning of Elegance. The American Look has developed almost unnoticed by the women who wear it. "Elegant dress," wrote Economist Thorstein Veblen in 1899 in The Theory of the Leisure Class, "serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive but also because it is the insignia of leisure." But in the U.S., the meaning of elegance has changed as much as the meaning of leisure. It is a leisure of action-barbecue parties in the backyard, motor trips along country roads and across the country, weekend golf and water skiing. From America's lively leisure...
...would award a major H in minor colors to any athlete who earns four minor varsity letters, two of which must be in the same sport. Another plan is being considered for the four-year jayvee man, whereby he will be awarded a major sport sweater with a minor insignia...
...decision gracelessly. The studio was closed down for two weeks. Except for the war, it would probably have closed down for good. For the next four years the U.S. paid Disney's bills while he made educational and propaganda films. On the side, Disney's artists designed insignia for the Armed Forces...
...last week, officials at the Wilkins Air Force Depot in Shelby, Ohio set about the routine business of auctioning off $8,000,000 in surplus property. Included in the lot: 67 tons of obsolete marksmanship medals and parachutists' insignia listed by the Air Force brass as "brass." Bidding started at 5? a lb., and suddenly began to rise. Word was circulating through the crowd: instead of being brass, the medals were silver. In a flash, bids rose to $1.90 a lb., later soared to $4.* Next day, the Air Materiel Command blushingly admitted an "administrative error," canceled the silver...
...morning ceremony in the throne room at Windsor Castle, Elizabeth herself adorned him with the ancient insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...