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...together" and which do not have been scrapped in the face of new successes for pink and red, brown and black, olive and forest green. Even more radically, prints are mixed with other prints, checks and tweeds are mated with fabrics using the same colors in a larger pattern. Paisley is making a bid for an untried tartan market. All of this will take form in scarves and narrow tie-scarves being worn with standard-colored sweaters. Look for some smart manufacturer to cash in on the inevitable matching vogue with cinches and scarves to match: it's bound...

Author: By George S. Abramfs, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: It's A Cinch--The Hottest Seller on the Market | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Gracious Gesture | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

West, an 18-year-old son of a paper-plant foreman, who quit Georgia Tech because he found nothing but "hard, cold facts of engineering," looked like a church -ly Frank Sinatra, in his Paisley bow tie and purple jacket, his big ears enlarged in shadows on the blackboard behind him. He read his long text (Luke 9: 20-27: ". . . And be rejected of the elders . . ."), and in a businesslike manner proceeded to expound it-the job of youth today. "Unless we, the young people of today, go to work, we're going to lose in the end. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Hastily procuring an oilskin wallet from his paisley smoking jacket, he withdraw from it the assorted collection of bizarre photographs he usually employs to punctuate his salon talks, and spoke at length on the culture, background, and Versatility of the "Contemporary college girl...

Author: By Rubicon K. Twombly rd, | Title: No Holds Barred as Boudoir-Versed L. Esprit Gaulois Lays Down Ground Rules for St. Valentine Frolicking | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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