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Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear...
No one at Bean's is complaining, since business has jumped 30% each year since 1967. The famous quarterly Bean catalogue, crammed with nylon gaiters, duck-hunting caps, long Johns and the like, now goes out to 2 million geared-up customers. After operating only one retail outlet (in...
In the collective memory of the New York art world, the decade 1955-64 has an almost magical air: a bath of transformations. Rauschenberg entered it as a frog and emerged a certified prince holding the first prize of the 1964 Venice Biennale. By 1955 the achievement of the abstract...
We tramped up Johns Brook Valley in the rain, our way lit by leafy yellows and oranges where only greens had shown a few weeks before. After four miles we found shelter and set up camp to wait for the morning and for the downpour to stop.
Being from Dartmouth, it should not surprise any Johns that I experienced a mild amount of ire when I read that "piece." However, that ire was quickly transformed into quandry as I started to question what kind of person (I will avoid the Hanover diminutive "tool") would write such trash...