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When Manhattan Hosier Abraham Feinberg stitched himself into control of the fraying Julius Kayser & Co. a year ago, the company's once-famous line of medium-priced lingerie, gloves and stockings had about as much sex appeal as sackcloth. Board Chairman Feinberg set out to woo the hard-to-sell, fashion-conscious college and career girl, hired top designers to turn out fetching new trifles, e.g., red "mambo" panties. He also revamped Kayser advertising to emphasize girlish glamour instead of spinstership thrift: "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser," its longtime slogan, became "You Owe It To Your Audience." When Kayser...
...poems, "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Canossa in April" reveal the individual authors' exultation at various aspects of spring; one praises the dormant appeal of the Radcliffe girl, the other ridicules the idea of wearing clothes in the warm April days. Both are amusing despite some incredible meter...
...England and for all I know elsewhere, you have, opposite a portrait of the Queen, six paragraphs on "The Case of Hans Klose" . . . I have only one thing to tell you: If [the story] is true, we should have brought it out in the open and repented in sackcloth and ashes; if it is not true, you should never have printed it. And anyway, you should not have printed it without names and chapter and verse. Did the American Army of occupation make no mistakes either? The whole writing of it is vicious, ending with: "No one really knew...
...Board of Trade, delivered a judgment on feminine fashions: "No woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband, 'What shall I wear tonight?' " Furthermore, he added, "the only clothes suitable for the wife of any member of the Government obviously are sackcloth and ashes nowadays...
Earl Kulp '51, representing the Young Republicans, urged a return to bi-partisan foreign policy as conceived by the late Senator Vandenberg. He agreed that aid to Aela is vital and urged that "Truman should talk to Stalin in he has to walk through Red Square in sackcloth." Kai-Shek and at least reconnaissance missions over Manchuria...