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...tailor. To call him Hollywood's No. 1 tailor would be to insult him by suggesting that there could possibly be a No. 2 Hollywood tailor. He gets about $50 a stitch, because his label, in Hollywood, signifies incomparable status. When a star gets into the 10%-of-the-gross category, he is ready for Sy Devore...
...reply of Yale's Acting President Kingman Brewster Jr. to that question, put up to him by the school's Political Union, was no-it would insult and possibly incite New Haven Negroes. Last week the Ivy League fell all over itself to refute Brewster. The Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats invited Wallace to speak there, got a ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned...
...figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive for its despised minorities [the new Irish], Joseph P. Kennedy had set out to beat his persecutors at their own game." Lasky even makes it sound sinister when President Kennedy "dropped the nation's business...
...other so-called "public accommodation." Substantial progress has been made: in the past three months, at least 275 towns have desegregated some sort of public facility. But the average U.S. Negro still seems to view his exclusion from public places as the worst insult of all. "I don't know anything that humiliates me more than to be out in the car and have one of my daughters ask to go to the bathroom and have to tell her, 'No, we can't stop at any of these places,' " says S.C.L.C.'s Rev. Andrew Young...
Said Illinois Republican Edward Derwinski: "When I label this bill unsatisfactory, I am truly guilty of understatement, since this year, more than ever before, it represents by its size and scope and basic inconsistency an insult to the intelligence of the American public." G.O.P. Whip Les Arends, who had never before voted against a foreign aid program, warned that this time he would, unless there were substantial "retrenchment and revision." In private, Republican Leader Charles Halleck uttered his own blunt comment on the bill: "This amount is too damned...