Word: polkas
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...photographers arrived early, giving their own thanks for the clear blue Thursday morning-and for Ike, light-footed and squire-like, who met them in a costume that shouted the autumn spectrum: green sport coat, yellow vest, polka-dot tie, tan Stetson. Photogenic as he was himself, the President came equipped with an even more picturable subject: his three frisky grandchildren, bundled joyfully in snowsuits and mittens, prepared to steal the scene as effectively as he hoped they would. With Ike and their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched...
...manners, the hotel greets its well-mannered guests with a massive display of paneled walls, beamed ceilings and straight-backed chairs, serves them tea to the discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...
There are checks and stripes and flowery prints, and even polka-dot underwear. And 1955's summer clothes are flexible, as the result of a continuing boom in "separates." There are a thousand different kinds of blouses that look as well with a skirt at a dinner party as with Bermuda shorts at a picnic. In California, bathing-suit makers Cole and Rose Marie Reid have gone so far as to put out "evening convertibles"-swimsuits that can be made into evening dresses by adding fluffy tulle skirts. Price...
...guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
...named for a Jacqueline Cochran face cream), a "garland dance" performed by eleven young ladies swirling swatches of red and pink velvet to the tune of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. After a professional interlude by Dancers Tony and Sally DeMarco, the debs came on again with Polka Sleigh Ride, in which, after a bit of polkaing by girls and their escorts, one group managed to arrange themselves so that they were impersonating a sleigh, while the others waved them on their way. The finale, called Shining Hour (after a Cochran perfume), was a sort of community sing...