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...wardrobe he bade Motley create is motley indeed. Orlando spends his time in overalls (who ever heard of a fairy-tale hero's heading for the altar in overalls?). His brother Oliver wears riding habit, carries cigars, and flourishes a cigarette lighter. The usurping Duke Frederick is decked out entirely in white, except for a diplomat's baldric-like red sash, and, with his beard, is a double for Peter Ustinov. For him Baker has invented (taking a cue from Violenta in All's Well?) a silent female companion who slinks about in a black gown and ling cigarette-holder...
...cigarettes don't." Bargain-hunting French students have discovered the free samples and trial offers in U.S. magazines. "My second day in Boston. I bought a dozen magazines, clipped out all the coupons, and mailed them all in." says one. Among his samples: one Japanese-made cigarette lighter, three packets of postage stamps on approval, several collections of immodestly clad women...
...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 Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold and silver; John Moore of Talmack has a sequined muu-muu that is more froufrou than a tutu, while several other...
...Lighter Burden. As yet, economists are not sure whether the shift means a permanently lower level of inventories or simply that inventory will henceforth be a more sensitive index. And they have one caution about the momentum of inventory accumulation: if the auto industry cuts back its high dealer inventories (which now stand at 941,000 cars) to make way for 1962 models, overall inventories may be robbed of real improvement in the third quarter. But if the inventory turn-around continues, it will ease the economy of a heavy weight. Not long ago. Statistician Paradiso estimated that gross national...
...lighter vein, Bunche observed that "we don't have much humor at the U.N.... but we've been having a lot more since Adlai Stevenson arrived." He recalled the Stevenson's joke, originally from a Dutch diplomat, on one of the marks of progress--"now the people in New Guinea are eating only fishermen on Fridays...