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...grey as the last day of winter dawned last week at Cumberland, Md., western terminus of the long abandoned Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a nature lover who fully expects nature to fight back, was well armored (in Levis, green wool shirt, high-cut boots, poplin jacket, two cameras and a musette bag), and he looked pleased. At 8:30, while fivescore curious Marylanders watched, he stepped briskly away from an old stone lockhouse and down the wilderness bordered canal bank toward Washington, 189 miles away...
...greys, he orders as many as a dozen suits at a time from exclusive Manhattan Tailor James Bell (other customers: James Farley, Harry Truman). He always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties, supposedly copied from those worn by Elbert (Message to Garcia) Hubbard, give him a faintly poetic...
Done with Air. Barbers, nattily dressed in white poplin smocks and two-toned shoes, showed off such innovations as electric clippers attached to cords which pulled back into wall cabinets when not in use; air hoses to blow off bits of clipped hair; and swinging "rumble seats" attached to the customers' chairs on which the barbers sat while clipping. On request, porters wheeled carts loaded with tonic bottles from chair to chair. A phonograph played hit tunes; portable telephones could be plugged in anywhere. Just inside the plate-glass doors, Oakley proudly flicked the switches of an intercommunication system...
Quartermasters are now testing 1,000 new lighter-weight poplin uniforms in Burma...
...pass in entering. Unlike such Irish cities as Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, Dublin no longer dresses its Corporation in fancy gear. But to meet Cardinal Lauri a special touch was necessary, so the Corporation planned to greet him in cocked hats, sable & scarlet robes lined with Irish poplin. Suitably robed also were to be those 16 Irish gentlemen who will carry the Canopy of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, among whom would be: President de Valera, Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, Speaker Francis Patrick Fahy, Senate Chairman Thomas William Westropp Bennett...