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...cake sales, manned sidewalk booths, highway "toll stations,'' ran a dress shop. Fradkin meanwhile pushed his plan by letter, phone, or nose-to-nose persuasion, got more inquiries than he could handle. Last year he organized the communities with do-it-yourself scholarship plans into the loosely knit Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., charged a $50 chartering fee to pay for a rented typewriter, phone bills, and the salary of the sole employee of the foundation, a housewife and part-time executive secretary. Fradkin naturally became president, and Levenson. who knew Fradkin only by letter, agreed...
Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...
This cloak-and-daggering is necessary because Peddie's committed "can't get high school guidance counselors to stick their neck out." Minnesota is state university territory, and in the close-knit communities, Peddie claims, "a counselor can't afford to stick his neck out. . . . He can't favor us over a state university, or favor one Ivy college over another. The ones who will stick their necks out for us are the old gals, who don't want to be superintendents. Young guys have to watch...
...fabric has not yet been successfully copied, there are less expensive stretch fashions, many of which make up by low cost what they lack in high style. Some of them add the drip-dry feature to crushability. Among them: Haymaker's flowery separates in a drip-dry warp knit, $29.95 each; and countless, nameless nylon shifts, $10 and up. The knits follow closely on Pucci's stretchy heels: Kimberly's wool dresses with jackets ($59.95), three-piece suits ($59.95 and $69.95) and plain dresses ($49.95 and $59.95), all in solid, placid colors with an occasional border contrast...
...Rome recently a woman finished her confession and waited for her penance. "You will say six Hail Marys," said the priest, "and knit me a sweater-long sleeves, please...