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Your date will wear dark grey flannel for its immemorial chic. The shoe is pointed this season, the tie discards the rep lines of last year for the subdued pattern of fall. Let the hair fall where it will, no longer hidden--hats are out this season, the carefully rumpled...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

Steer your beau away from Mt. Auburn street into the distinctive but discreet. Plaid is in taste, with reservations, or throttle his reticence with a sports shirt of grey, blue-grey, green-grey, or flesh--add a string tie. If he's still bashful get him to try a blue...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

Worcester & Beyond. Wallace Kirkman Harrison is strictly a working architect. He has written no books on what he has done or what architecture might or should do. When he is not tramping around an excavation or arguing with contractors, he can usually be found hard at work in his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cheops' Architect | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

On the last afternoon of the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Adlai Stevenson stepped to the microphone to sing the praises of a bulky, apple-cheeked man who stood slightly to the rear, grinning happily though his eyes were red from lack of sleep and his curly, greying hair was rumpled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Percentage | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Wellesley's cello-playing Thomas Hayes Procter, 66, minister of the Christian Church, professor of philosophy, and perennial favorite of the campus. In class, staring abstractedly into space or twiddling with his vest "twiddle button," "Mr. Plato" led a whole generation of girls through the intricacies of Greek thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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