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...Maiden Aunts. Knudsen in personality and record is a subdued version of Cole. He came out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, joined G.M. three years later. After hitches in the automotive, aircraft and diesel engine manufacturing divisions, he took over Pontiac in 1956 when it was looked on as a car good only for maiden aunts. Knudsen ripped off Pontiac's traditional chrome streaks, pepped up its engine and gave it gimmick features ("wide track." split grille). Result: while other medium-priced cars continued to slide, Pontiac jumped from sixth place in sales into a fight with...
...maiden aunt of mine keeps insisting that people mellow when they enter middle-age. I have always thought this nostrum a trifle pat, and Ingmar Bergman (doubtless intending no malice to my aunt) turns her theory inside out with Secrets of Women, an unpretentious early work that precedes by some years the tempestuous and difficult films by which he is better known. For Bergman, the mellowness of maturity seems to have come before youth's probing restlessness...
...high point in the evening was his presentation of three original songs he had rarely sung before. Of these the most impressive was the mournful, haunting maiden's lament, "Unused I am to Lovers." The melody was a beautiful but unlikely combination of classical Italian influence and backwoods "hollars." I found myself wishing someone like Joan Baez would sing it so its true beauty could emerge...
...without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material. There is not a seam to be seen, or to cut, bind or pucker. "The first...
...patrician wellbeing. Douglas Dillon is only two generations removed from the ghettos of Poland, where Samuel Lapowski. his paternal grandfather, was born. Migrating to Texas after the Civil War. Lapowski set up shop as a clothier, first in San Antonio and later in Abilene, took his mother's maiden name of Dillon, prospered enough to send his only son Clarence to Harvard. Shrewd, smart and blessed with a good poker player's sense of timing, Clarence ("Baron") Dillon was the only boy in his class ('05 ) to own a car-and the one who perhaps drove ahead...