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...that is led by Kappel and President Eugene J. Mc-Neely, 63, a stern taskmaster who supervises operations and personnel and has followed Kappel into three executive positions since 1949. This top team is known to company insiders as "the Cabinet." It is made up of an extremely close-knit and like-minded group of men (median age: 57) with strikingly similar backgrounds. They feel most comfortable with their own kind, even to the extent of lunching together every day in the 22nd-floor executive dining room. Three-quarters of them come from small towns, only a handful went...
...recent issue, Elle catalogued a host of Elle-inspired fashion notes that the trade had pirated: Dior's heavy knit stockings, for example, Nina Ricci's elegant T shirt, everybody's insouciant high boots. When Elle's ten-woman fashion crew find nothing worthy in the boutiques, they return with suggested Lazareff designs. Couturiers are usually happy to execute them at once, knowing that with Elle's imprimatur they are sure to sell...
...looks happier than he has in years, restoring the faith of his followers in the legend that he will live to be 99. Last week, looking back on the years of his disfavor, the frail friar, whose still-bleeding hands are hidden in red knit mittens, said: "The wretchedness of men equals the mercy...
Expansion, however, is not a desirable solution. At the present, the Bureau is a refuge of intimacy amidst an increasingly impersonal University complex. To lose the Bureau's personal touch both within its close knit organization and with the other nineteen or so advisory bodies would be to lose much of its strength...
Rapturous Piety. Unabashedly, Ransom describes a lyric poem as "an act of rapturous piety; a homage to human nature despite its hateful and treacherous tendencies." Dry, knit-browed New Critics, trying to justify their unexpected fondness for such a man, are often as unsuccessful as connoisseurs trying to convey the exact flavor of a vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only...