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Hedgehopping and jeeping around Korea on his third straight Christmas tour there, tireless Francis Cardinal Spellman, 64, went from outfit to outfit, held services, shook hands with troops of many faiths. Speaking to some 800 men of one regiment, the cardinal said: "American soldiers have taught me better than I could have learned in any other way what America means...
...Slick Chicago promoters started a "snowball" campaign by mailing 2,000 crisp dollar bills to "sucker lists" (with an appeal to match the dollar, or better), eventually got back a clear $630,000 for a nonexistent "National Cancer Hospital." The cost of fundraising: $435,000. Another Chicago outfit raised $2,531,000 for the relief of war widows and orphans aided by Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. After fund-raising expenses were deducted, the widows' mite...
...autobiography, Grandma gives a memorable description of her wedding outfit : "A going-away costume of a very dark green dress, and jacket the same, a hat, the same, trimmed with a pink feather. The first thing I had on was a chemise, then my corsets, a corset waist, a pair of pantsies, a little flannel skirt, the bustle, a white skirt, then the dress. The dress was made with a skirt lining and wigging stitched on up to the knees, and the dress cloth went over that, a long skirt reaching to the floor. Then an overskirt over that, that...
...Lawyer. Ambassador Dean, 55, was sent to Panmunjom last October by his longtime law partner in Sullivan & Cromwell, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He arrived in a neat, pinstriped suit and polished, low-cut shoes. But as the days wore on Dean changed to the only other outfit he had brought along: a rumpled grey suit and a brown sweater that looked as if coffee had been freshly spilled down...
...kept its shape better than others and gave the bather more freedom, people swarmed to buy it. Jantzen soon abandoned its sweaters, socks, gloves and other woolens, concentrated on bathing suits. It got its biggest boost from its trademark, a diving girl clad in what was quite a daring outfit for those days: red bathing suit, red stockings, and a sort of tam-o'-shanter with a white nob on top. In three years, Jantzen distributed 10 million diving-girl stickers for windows and windshields, and its name became known all over the world...