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...West Roxbury, Mass., fire inspector, Harvard-man ('33) George Frazier has spent most of his life as a freelance writer and a fulltime embellisher of his self-anointed role as an eccentric. When the mood hits him, he drives 464 miles to Buffalo, where the Charter House Motel serves a salad dressing to his taste. He wears $265 suits, brings his own hot dogs to baseball games, and snoots the common man. "Can it seriously be argued," he asked, after observing the deportment of a hockey crowd, "that these ignorant, ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligans-common...
Hidden under the Treadway Motel is Moda Boutique, an import shop carrying Milanese knit suits (which range in price from $25 to $150) and outfits from Capri, Israel and Austria. The shop carries a fine assortment of basic lingerie, too. One of its specialities is blouses, made to your measurements in four days from Italian silk scarves you select yourself...
...district along the Ohio River only a few blocks from downtown, approved a $16,600,000 bond issue to clean up 128.5 acres of dank and decaying buildings. In their place will go a convention hall, five 30-story luxury apartment buildings, a park, a pool, a marina and motel-boatel catering both to passing motorists and yachtsmen...
Today's schedule includes a very light drill at 5 p.m. and an appearance at the rally. The team will then adjourn to a secluded motel to ensure an undisturbed night of sleep before the game...
Apart from its familiar name, the firm offered little. Sales of union suits had faded with the rise of central heating, and Clark Gable singlehanded ruined the undershirt by wearing none in a memorable motel scene with Claudette Colbert in 1934's Oscar-winning It Happened One Night. The King's male subjects ripped off their own undershirts; sales plunged 40%. B.V.D. gamely tried to stretch into sports shirts, sweatshirts and socks, gradually boggled in a complexity of products and styles that became more complicated to order and stock than to sell...