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...take violent exception to a sentence in a letter published in your Jan. 20 issue, signed A. G. Ellis, M.D.: "First, how could anyone be elegant in a pair of those inelegant, nondescript outmoded golf trousers?" Nondescript, inelegant, outmoded indeed!!! Where has Dr. Ellis been all of his life? I know a few who look elegant in them, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, Jimmy McLarnin [see cut], MacDonald Smith, Gene Markey, and several million English golfers and hikers. I personally possess 15 suits with golf trousers and wear them in Hollywood, at every appropriate occasion...
First, how could any one be elegant in a pair of those inelegant, nondescript, outmoded golf trousers...
...Nondescript Utterance. In the Dominion last week a teapot tempest blew up from Ontario as the Attorney General of this Province, politically inexperienced Gordon Daniel Conant, 65, who has been in public life less than three years, again cackled on his favorite theme of British-U. S.-solidarity-to-save-the-world...
...while witnessing the departure of Canadian officers (one of whom was his brother-in-law and another his private secretary) for service in World War II. In Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who recently spanked U. S. Minister Cromwell, took Mr. Conant to the woodshed, declared that no nondescript utterances of minor officials abroad could influence U. S. foreign policy...
Campus. Ohio State's nondescript buildings, sprawling around a horseshoe-shaped campus, are barren of ivy and Gothic furbelows. But its undergraduates have some traditions, some fun. Ohio State's Orton Hall sounds the Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs...