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...days preceding the key event. For out-of-town visitors who arrived early, TIME Publisher and Mrs. Bernhard Auer held a small, informal cocktail reception at Manhattan's Regency Hotel. The following day, under acres of bright-colored tents, Time Inc. President and Mrs. James A. Linen gave a garden party and buffet dinner at their home in Greenwich, Conn., for more than 100 cover subjects and their TIME escorts and special guests. On the big evening at the Waldorf, Francis Cardinal Spellman began the program with an invocation that made staff members stand straight. "Come into the midst...
...neck when it rains. Currently splayed across the pages of fashion magazines and topping almost every plastic mannequin in department-store windows across the country, bowlers are being sold to real-life women at a furious rate. Most popular in straw, they come in every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely to flatten them...
...linen fee could be eliminated by allowing commuters to bring sheets from home. The cost of weekend meals could be provided by house or dorm treasuries if commuters were unable to pay, and the College might even consider reducing meal rices for these students...
...Arizona's Barry Goldwater demanded an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, charged Bobby Kennedy and the Administration with attempts at "the rewriting of history." Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, retorted that he saw no useful purpose in "relaundering this linen-though I'll confess it has never seemed very clean...
...descends from this world of youth and joy through the deathly quiet of the linen floors. But soon the street is reached, where Christmas breaks through again and Filene's happy row of six-foot candy canes is aimed squarely at Jordan Marsh's row of trees. But like the cannons aimed at the manger in the Cambridge Common, it is all meant in good...