Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirit Levels & Polaroid. "The first thing American clients say is 'Don't give me an English suit,' " says Louis Stanbury, partner of Kilgour, French & Stanbury. "I tell them if they want a sack suit they should go to Brooks Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces...
English tailors have made a science of measurements. Consider Walter Norton of Norton & Sons, who tailored a shooting suit for Bing Crosby with "plus twos" and also suits for Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention...
Midst laurels stood: former President Harry Truman, 82, honored with the George C. Marshall Medal of the Association of the United States Army for "selfless service to the United States" and, among other things, implementation of the Marshall Plan; Polaroid Corp. President Edwin H. Land, 57, named to receive the Case Institute of Technology's $5,000 Michelson Award; Lyndon Johnson, named to receive the first Margaret Sanger Award in World Leadership of the Planned Parenthood Federation for "contributions to world understanding of population planning...
Monday, Oct. 10, started the same way, with the average in early trading off almost six points from the closing price of the previous week. Then came the comeback. Led by such glamour stocks as Sperry Rand, Polaroid, Fairchild Camera and Xerox, the market made a broad advance, and the industrials finished the day with a 10.9 point advance...
...lowest since June 9, 1964. In all some 700 of the 1,250 Big-Board stocks hit 1966 lows. Previously high-flying glamour stocks followed slumping blue chips. Xerox fell off 37 points to 193¼. Optics specialist Itek, a newcomer to the Big Board, sank 15⅛, Polaroid 15, Fairchild Camera...